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Professor M A Muhit is a consultant of childhood blindness and childhood disability and development Activist. He is the lead researcher who has conducted the first national study on childhood blindness in Bangladesh. Prof Muhit has been awarded the Distinguished Service Award by Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology for his leadership role in the development of research, programmes and policies for prevention of blindness in children — both in Bangladesh and at international level to ensure the rights of the blind children. He has also been bestowed with gold medal for his great contribution on the field of research of childhood eye diseases on behalf of the Ophthalmological Society of Bangladesh (OSB). He served International Centre for Eye Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine as a faculty and Clinical Research Fellow. Currently, he is the Pro-Vice Chancellor of University of South Asia, Dhaka, Bangladesh and the Honorary Executive Director of Child Sight Foundation-a non-Government and non-profit organization working to eliminate avoidable disability and to establish a right-based enabling environment for children with disability in Bangladesh.