About the Authors

Joshua Foreman

foreman.j@unimelb.edu.au

Affiliations Centre for Eye Research Australia, Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, Ophthalmology, University of Melbourne, Department of Surgery, Melbourne, Australia

Jing Xie

Affiliations Centre for Eye Research Australia, Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, Ophthalmology, University of Melbourne, Department of Surgery, Melbourne, Australia

Stuart Keel

Affiliations Centre for Eye Research Australia, Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, Ophthalmology, University of Melbourne, Department of Surgery, Melbourne, Australia

Hugh R. Taylor

Affiliation Indigenous Eye Health Unit, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Mohamed Dirani

Affiliations Centre for Eye Research Australia, Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, Ophthalmology, University of Melbourne, Department of Surgery, Melbourne, Australia

Competing Interests

The National Eye Health Survey received funding from a commercial source, Novartis Pharmaceuticals. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JF JX SK HRT MD. Data curation: JF JX SK MD. Formal analysis: JF JX. Funding acquisition: MD. Investigation: JF SK MD. Methodology: JF JX SK MD HRT. Project administration: MD SK JF. Supervision: MD HRT. Visualization: JF JX. Writing – original draft: JF JX SK MD HRT. Writing – review & editing: JF JX SK MD HRT.