Fatima who currently chairs the Glaucoma Society of Nigeria (GSN) is a fellow of the West African College of Surgeons. She enhanced her public health research skills through an MSc and PhD with distinction at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Fatima chose very early on to focus on glaucoma. As a clinician with medical and surgical expertise as well as sub-speciality skills in Glaucoma, Fatima applies her skills to make informed, patient-centred decisions including using evidence-based interventions at a grass roots level to design the strategies required from the individual patient level to national strategic level to global networks. Her design was to start with optimising clinical patient care, working as the clinical glaucoma lead in the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, then collaborate with partners to develop community-based screening and case-finding for glaucoma. The next level was to drive the production of national guidelines. She leads the glaucoma clinical and research network (Glaucoma-NET), domiciled at the International Centre for Eye Health (ICEH) at LSHTM but supporting glaucoma care services in low- and middle-income countries. Fatima, in her wider leadership role, supports research in multiple areas, as Director of the University’s Institute for Advanced Medical Research and Training (IAMRAT). She is a member of the senior leadership team at the ICEH, LSHTM. In a voluntary role, she is the West Africa (Anglophone) sub regional Co-Chair of the International Agency for Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) www.iapb.org; and a member of the IAPB Board of Trustees and the Executive Committee, participating in high level advocacy, influencing eye health policy and planning, globally.