Monica Jong, BOptom, PhD

Monica Jong, BOptom, PhD, is the Global Director of Professional Education, Myopia at Johnson & Johnson Vision where she leads practitioner education and training initiatives around the world to support evidence-based myopia management. She was the former Executive Director of the International Myopia Institute, an organization she helped co-found and lead. In this role she led the development of white papers and key initiatives to bring consensus to the field of myopia management and support advocacy of myopia as a public health issue.

Monica has conducted clinical trials in optical and drug treatments in myopia control and collaborated internationally. She has published numerous peer reviewed articles, co-created the first global online education program in myopia at the Brien Holden Vision Institute, and co-authored the WHO report on the Impact of Myopia and High Myopia.