ClearVision Global Health, Inc. — Global Health Access & Equity

Our Mission

Health access is not a privilege — it is a right

Founded by a pre-medical student with a passion for global health equity, ClearVision Global Health, Inc. is built on the belief that where you are born should never determine whether you receive life-changing medical care.

We chose cataract surgery as our entry point deliberately — it is one of the most cost-effective, measurable, and high-impact surgical interventions in global health. At approximately $100 per procedure, the outcome is immediate, documentable, and fundable. It is a model for how structured international partnerships and transparent fundraising can solve access problems at scale.

We have signed a formal protocol with Golden Life American Hospital in Mali. Every dollar we raise goes directly to surgery costs — and we are part of every step, from patient selection to outcome tracking.

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Surgical access

Funding cataract surgeries for patients who cannot afford care, in partnership with verified hospitals.

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Community fundraising

Engaging businesses, events, and campaigns to raise a minimum of $20,000 per year — sustainably.

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Rigorous research

Documenting outcomes and publishing findings in peer-reviewed journals to drive systemic change.

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Full transparency

Every dollar tracked. Every patient documented. Every report published publicly.

Our Mission

To remove barriers to surgical access for underserved populations by building transparent, evidence-driven funding models — starting with cataract surgery in Mali as a proven blueprint for scalable global health equity.

Our Vision

A world in which geography and income never determine access to surgical care — where every life-changing medical intervention is within reach of every person who needs it, and where the evidence to make that possible is built, published, and acted upon.

Documents

Open records, always

Every document we produce, every dollar we raise, and every outcome we achieve is recorded and made publicly available. Accountability is not an afterthought — it is built into how we operate from day one.

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Partnership documents

ClearVision Global Health, Inc. formalizes every partnership through a signed protocol agreement — with hospitals as our surgical partners and with nonprofits as our fundraising and program partners. These agreements govern fund transfers, patient selection, surgical standards, and outcome reporting, ensuring every relationship is transparent and accountable.

📋 Golden Life American Hospital Protocol → 📋 Embrace Relief Collaboration Protocol →

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Patient outcomes

201 cataract surgeries completed under our 2025–2026 campaign with Golden Life American Hospital in Mali — 98.0% of patients showed confirmed visual improvement at first post-operative assessment, and 97.5% of surgeries were completed without intraoperative complications. All 201 patients are enrolled in structured post-operative follow-up at 1, 3, and 6 months. Anonymized records form the dataset for our longitudinal research program.

📋 2025–2026 Official Impact Report →

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Impact reports

Certified by Golden Life American Hospital, our 2025–2026 Impact Report documents $25,850 raised and fully applied to surgical purposes, 201 surgeries completed, patient selection criteria, and clinical outcomes — signed by both organizations and published here in full.

📋 2025–2026 Cataract Surgery Impact Report →

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Governance documents

Our organizational documents — all publicly available to ensure full accountability and transparency about how we operate.

📋 Certificate of Formation → 📋 Bylaws → 📋 Conflict of Interest Policy → 📋 Board Meeting Minutes — June 2026 → 📋 Board Meeting Minutes — July 2026 (Special Meeting) →

Our Work

Our work, in photos & videos

Moments from our partner facility in Mali and from the cataract missions that came before ClearVision's founding. Updated as our work continues.

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Our surgical partner in Bamako, Mali — where the cataract surgery series funded through our protocol agreement takes place, and where Eren completed his supervised on-site collaboration.

Golden Life American Hospital, Bamako, Mali

Delegation visit marking the partnership

📷 Photos of Golden Life American Hospital, Bamako, Mali — our partner facility under the signed Collaboration Protocol.

Our surgical partner for community outreach — delivering cataract screening and surgery through mobile clinics that reach patients in remote areas of Mali where fixed facilities are out of reach. Our protocol agreement governs patient selection, surgical standards, and outcome reporting for every surgery we fund.

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$Evening eye exam, 2018 mission$

Patient after surgery with a protective eye shield

Slit lamp examination during a surgical mission

Close examination ahead of cataract surgery

Slit lamp exam with post-operative eye shield

Free cataract screening and surgery in Mali

A mother and son supported by early fundraising efforts

📷 Photos and video courtesy of Embrace Relief · Cataract Surgery Project, Mali | 🔒 All patient photography used with attribution and in accordance with our transparency standards.

About Us

Who we are and what drives us

ClearVision Global Health, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding access to surgical care for underserved populations — building transparent, evidence-driven funding models that address the structural barriers preventing people from receiving the medical interventions they need.

We are built on a simple truth: the greatest obstacles in global health are not always clinical — they are structural. Funding gaps, geographic barriers, and the absence of accountable partnerships between donors and hospitals leave millions without access to surgeries that could change their lives. We exist to close those gaps.

ClearVision Global Health, Inc. was formally incorporated in 2026, growing from seven years of independent fundraising and a successful one-year surgical partnership with Golden Life American Hospital in Bamako, Mali. We chose cataract surgery as our founding program because it offers something rare in global health work: a low-cost, high-impact intervention with immediate, measurable outcomes that donors can understand and trust. It is a model — not a limit. Our vision extends to any surgical access gap where structured partnerships, transparent funding, and rigorous documentation can change outcomes at scale.

Every dollar we raise goes directly to surgery costs. Every surgery is documented. Every outcome is tracked and published. This is not just good ethics — it is the foundation of the evidence base we are building to demonstrate that community-funded surgical access programs can work anywhere in the world.

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Incorporated in the United States

Registered nonprofit in Texas, pursuing 501(c)(3) federal tax-exempt status.

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Operating in Mali, West Africa

Formal protocol with Golden Life American Hospital, Bamako — governing all fund use, patient selection, and surgical standards.

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Research-backed and evidence-driven

Building a longitudinal dataset on cataract outcomes with the goal of peer-reviewed publication in global health journals.

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Fully transparent by design

All financial records, fund transfers, patient outcome summaries, and governance documents are published publicly on this website.

Organization Timeline

2019 — Mission begins

Independent fundraising for cataract surgery programs begins, driven by a belief that preventable blindness should never go untreated.

High school — Embrace Relief partnership

Partnered with Embrace Relief to fund cataract surgeries across Africa through community fundraising campaigns.

2025 — First hospital protocol signed

One-year collaboration protocol signed with Golden Life American Hospital, Mali. $25,000 raised, 200+ surgeries sponsored.

2026 — Nonprofit incorporated

ClearVision Global Health, Inc. formally incorporated. Long-term partnership protocol with Golden Life American Hospital established. Annual goal: $20,000+ and 200+ surgeries per year.

2030 — Growth target

Goal: 3 hospital partnerships, $30,000–$40,000 raised annually, 500+ volunteers engaged globally.

Leadership & Board

Who we are and why we serve

ClearVision Global Health, Inc. is governed by a dedicated board committed to transparency, accountability, and measurable impact in global health equity and surgical access.

Founder

Eren Coban

Founder & Executive Director

Eren is a pre-medical student aspiring to become a physician — with a deep commitment to global health equity and expanding access to surgical care in underserved communities. His driving question is not which specialty he will practice, but how medicine can be made accessible to the people who need it most. Since 6th grade he has been translating that question into action. Through high school he partnered with Embrace Relief to fund surgical care across Africa. In 2025, during his senior year, he signed a direct protocol with Golden Life American Hospital in Bamako, Mali — raising $25,000 and sponsoring 200+ cataract surgeries. He chose cataract surgery deliberately: it is one of the most cost-effective, documentable, and donor-friendly surgical interventions in global health, making it an ideal proof-of-concept for a larger model. In 2026 he founded ClearVision Global Health, Inc. to scale and formalize that model — with a board, long-term hospital partnerships, and a research program aimed at peer-reviewed publication. His 2030 goal is 3 hospital partnerships across multiple countries, $30,000–$40,000 raised annually, and 500+ volunteers engaged globally.

Treasurer

Dr. Harun Yilmaz

Ph.D. · Data Analyst & Educational Technology Scholar · Houston, Texas

Dr. Harun Yilmaz is an educational technology scholar, data analyst, and higher education professional with more than two decades of experience in research, institutional effectiveness, grant evaluation, and technology-driven program development. He currently serves as a data analyst and Salesforce developer within a large public school system in Texas, where he supports data-driven decision-making and works with senior leaders on key performance measures and outcomes. He previously served as Associate Professor of Educational Technology at North American University and as Department Head of Computer Education at Mevlana University. His nonprofit governance experience includes serving as a board member in the successful charter school approval process for Paragon Science Academy in Arizona. Dr. Yilmaz holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Virginia Tech, an M.Sc. from Syracuse University, and a B.Sc. from Gazi University. His research has received more than 830 Google Scholar citations.

Secretary

Dr. Adam Sahin

Ph.D. · Research Scientist & IRB Chair · Houston, Texas

Dr. Adam Sahin is an educational researcher, Research Scientist, and institutional research leader with more than two decades of experience in K–12 education, higher education, research, and program evaluation. He currently serves as a Research Scientist and IRB Chair within a large public school system in Texas, where he leads data analysis, institutional research, and ethical oversight of research activities. He earned his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Texas A&M University. His scholarship has appeared in leading journals including the International Journal of Science Education and the Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, and he is editor of A Practice-Based Model of STEM Teaching. Dr. Sahin has served as an NSF review panelist, presented at AERA, NARST, and NCTM, and contributed to numerous funded grant projects. His expertise in quantitative research, longitudinal data analysis, and program evaluation brings critical research rigor to ClearVision Global Health's outcome documentation and evidence-building mission.

Medical Advisor

Dr. Sanem Ergen

M.D. · Internal Medicine · Board Member & Medical Advisor · Türkiye

Dr. Sanem Ergen is a physician specializing in Internal Medicine, with a steady commitment to expanding access to essential health services for underserved communities worldwide. Her clinical background gives her a close, practical understanding of what it actually takes to deliver safe, ethical, high-quality care in resource-limited settings — insight she brings directly to ClearVision Global Health's hospital partnerships, surgical protocol design, and campaign planning. As Board Member and Medical Advisor, Dr. Ergen reviews clinical protocols, partnership agreements, and surgical campaign structures to help ensure every program ClearVision funds meets rigorous medical and ethical standards before a single patient is scheduled. Her motivation is direct: too many people in low-income communities, including those in Mali, go without basic, restorative care not because the medicine doesn't exist, but because the systems to deliver it don't reach them — and she sees ClearVision's transparent, hospital-partnered, outcome-tracked model as one practical way to close that gap, one patient at a time.

Fundraising Coordinator

Zeynep Naz

Medical School Student · İzmir, Türkiye · Board Member & Fundraising Campaign Coordinator

Zeynep Naz is a medical school student in İzmir, Türkiye, working toward a career in neurology. Alongside her studies, she has remained active in student clubs and organizations, building experience in team coordination and community outreach that she now brings to ClearVision Global Health. As Board Member and Fundraising Campaign Coordinator, Zeynep manages communication with donors and volunteers before, during, and after each campaign — keeping supporters informed and engaged, and helping grow the volunteer base that makes ClearVision's work possible. She is motivated by a simple belief: that a single donation or a single afternoon of volunteering, communicated well and followed up on sincerely, can turn a one-time supporter into a lifelong advocate for global health equity. Her goal is to strengthen ClearVision's donor and volunteer community across borders — starting with her own network in Türkiye — so that more campaigns reach their fundraising targets and, in turn, fund more sight-restoring surgeries in Mali.

Our Partners

Built on trusted partnerships

Every surgery we fund is made possible through carefully vetted institutional partnerships. We hold our partners to the same standards of transparency and accountability we hold ourselves.

Golden Life
American Hospital

Surgical Partner

Golden Life American Hospital

📍 Badalabougou, Rue 50 Porte 734, Bamako, Mali

Golden Life American Hospital is a leading private healthcare facility in Bamako, Mali, serving as a critical surgical hub for nonprofit eye-care campaigns that bring sight-restoring surgeries to underserved communities across the country. Their Ophthalmology Department offers modern cataract procedures including phacoemulsification, OCT, Yag laser treatments, and comprehensive pre- and post-operative care. The hospital also conducts mobile outreach — screening rural Malians and transporting qualified patients to Bamako for surgery. ClearVision Global Health, Inc. has signed a formal Collaboration Protocol with the hospital covering fund transfers, patient selection criteria, surgical standards, and outcome reporting — making Golden Life American Hospital our primary surgical partner for restoring sight to underserved patients across Mali.

📋Formal Collaboration Protocol signed January 2026 — governing all fund use, patient eligibility, and surgical standards

👁️Advanced phacoemulsification cataract surgery — 85 patients per series, including OCT and Yag laser services

🚐Mobile outreach program — screens rural patients and transports qualified candidates to Bamako for surgery

🔬Research collaboration on surgical outcomes and post-operative neuroscience observation

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Relief

Surgical Partner

Embrace Relief

📍 Fairfield, New Jersey, USA · Program: Mali Mobile Clinic Initiative

Embrace Relief is an established U.S. humanitarian nonprofit whose Cure Cataract program operates a mobile eye clinic serving Bamako and rural communities across Mali. Under a signed Long-Term Collaboration Protocol, ClearVision Global Health, Inc. acts as an independent fundraising partner: we raise funds and transfer them to Embrace Relief, and Embrace Relief retains full clinical and operational authority over patient screening, surgical delivery, and program implementation. The Protocol formalizes fund transfers, reporting timelines, patient privacy standards, and mutual recognition between our organizations.

📋Long-Term Collaboration Protocol — signed July 2026, governing fund transfers, reporting, patient privacy, and recognition

👁️Cure Cataract mobile clinic program — approximately $120 per surgery, serving rural and urban Mali

📊Structured campaign reporting — surgery attribution, outcomes summaries, and approved impact media

🤝Nonexclusive, renewable partnership — initial 4-year term with annual review

📞embracerelief.org

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Research Training

Baylor College of Medicine — National School of Tropical Medicine

📍 Houston, Texas, USA · Feigin Center

ClearVision Global Health Founder & Executive Director Eren Coban was admitted as a student researcher at Baylor College of Medicine's Feigin Center, with faculty mentorship affiliated with the National School of Tropical Medicine — an initial one-year placement beginning August 2026, renewable through 2029. This is an individual research training placement for our founder, not an institutional partnership agreement between CVGH and Baylor College of Medicine or the National School of Tropical Medicine. The analytical rigor gained — structured data collection, quality control, and assay-based validation — directly informs how CVGH builds outcome-tracking instruments for the surgical data generated by our program partners, Golden Life American Hospital and Embrace Relief.

🔬Student researcher placement — protein science, recombinant protein purification, and analytical assay design

📅Initial term August 2026 – August 2027, renewable annually through 2029

📈Methodology directly applied to CVGH's surgical outcome-tracking and research program

📋See full research program details →

Research Program

Building the evidence base for global health equity

Every surgery we fund is a data point in a larger argument: that structured, transparent, community-funded surgical access programs can work at scale. We are building the evidence base to prove it — starting with cataract outcomes in Mali, with the goal of publishing peer-reviewed research that informs global health policy.

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Feigin Center

Research Training

Founder training at Baylor College of Medicine's National School of Tropical Medicine

In August 2026, ClearVision Global Health Founder & Executive Director Eren Coban was admitted as a student researcher at Baylor College of Medicine, working in the Feigin Center under faculty mentorship affiliated with the National School of Tropical Medicine. The initial one-year placement is renewable, with an expected multi-year training arc through 2029, and focuses on protein science, recombinant protein expression and purification, and the analytical assays used to characterize purified biologics.

This hands-on exposure to rigorous laboratory method — structured data collection, quality control, and analytical validation — directly shapes how ClearVision designs its own outcome-tracking instruments for the surgical data generated by our program partners, Golden Life American Hospital and Embrace Relief. It is training our founder as a researcher in parallel with building the organization, strengthening our path toward publication-quality outcome research.

Institution: Baylor College of Medicine Program: National School of Tropical Medicine Term: Aug 2026 – Aug 2027 (renewable)

Active

Outcome documentation

Tracking pre- and post-surgical vision outcomes for all patients funded through ClearVision Global Health, Inc. at Golden Life American Hospital.

Planned

Access barriers analysis

Identifying the social, geographic, and economic barriers that prevent cataract patients in Mali from accessing surgical care.