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Paul Douglas Courtright (born December 14, 1954), is an American ophthalmic epidemiologist who has worked majorly in sub-Saharan Africa and co-founded the Kilimanjaro Center for Community Ophthalmology with his wife Susan Lewallen.

Paul Courtright was born in Tucson, Arizona to James Courtright and Marie Courtright. He was raised in Montana, Idaho, Iran, Taiwan and Australia, as his father worked as a pilot for the United States Agency for International Development and later as a carrier pilot for US military forces in Vietnam.

After graduating from the University of Boise, Paul served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Jeonnam Province, South Korea from 1979-1981. While Paul was there he witnessed the Gwangju Uprising, a series of protests and an uprising against the military government of the time that was violently destroyed by military forces. Paul worked with foreign journalists as a Korean translator, and eventually traveled to Seoul to make the events in Gwangju known. He stayed an extra year in South Korea as a teacher before returning to the United States for graduate school.

Courtright received his Master's in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988. After living in Ethiopia and Malawi, Courtright worked at the University of British Columbia where he helped found the British Columbia Centre for Epidemiologic and International Ophthalmology.

In 2001, Courtright co-founded the Kilimanjaro Center for Community Ophthalmology (KCCO) in Moshi, Tanzania with his wife, Dr. Susan Lewallen. At KCCO, Courtright and Lewallen worked on capacity building for hospitals and healthcare systems across the African continent, focusing especially on gender inequities in eyecare.

On May 7th, 2020, on the 40th anniversary of the Gwangju Uprising, Courtright published his memoir of the incident, titled Witnessing Gwangju.