eyeYPAG is a young persons’ advisory group for eye and vision research which had their first meeting on 2nd March 2019.
The group meets in London at or near Moorfields Eye Hospital 4-5 times a year on a Saturday to:
The Eye-YPAG is supported by the National Institute for Health and Care Research Moorfields Biomedical Research Centre.
The group has 12 members aged 8-21 years. All the young people involved have experience of eye problems and treatment and/or have taken part in clinical trials or other research.
Group members said they got involved to:
Read the news item on the Moorfields website about our first meeting.
Jacq Miller: moorfieldsbrc@nihr.ac.uk
NIHR Moorfields Biomedical Research Centre
2nd Floor, Wolfson Building
UCL Institute of Ophthalmology
11-43 Bath Street
London, EC1V 9EL
Blog by Jumera, Last month at EyeYPAG we started our meeting with introductions and sharing our favourite things and least favourite things. It was really nice because some members came back that we had not seen in a while 🙂. We also heard updates from previous research projects. One of these was the CLEARVIEW project, […]
Blog by Jasmine, Our second eyeYPAG meeting of 2026, in March, was a busy one! Group development We started by meeting our visitors for the ‘Shaping research for children with Stargardt’s Disease’ session. We then discussed our future eyeYPAG plans such as: The UCL200 family festival, where we will have an eyes and science table […]
By Eleri Our first meeting of the year was on 17th January 2026, it was a huge success! All about us. . . We started our session by reminding ourselves of our co-production ethos. We always want to make sure everyone feels listened to and understood and this is stated in said ethos. This was […]
