Hind Elnazir is an optometrist, technology entrepreneur, and strategic advisor working at the intersection of vision science, artificial intelligence, digital health, and institutional transformation.
Her work is driven by a central conviction: as technology increasingly shapes how people live, work, learn, and interact with the world, the systems we build must evolve with a deeper understanding of human health and physiology.
She is the founder of Digital Vision Health (DVH), an initiative dedicated to advancing the understanding, research, and development of visual health in digital environments. Her vision extends beyond creating a technology product. It is centred on helping establish an interdisciplinary framework through which visual health can become a more recognised and integrated dimension of digital health.
A Multidisciplinary Journey
Hind’s professional journey began in optometry, where her clinical education developed her understanding of human vision, ocular health, visual performance, and the relationship between the visual system and everyday life.
Her interest in technology and entrepreneurship emerged early. At sixteen, she launched her first technology venture: a multi-vendor digital platform designed to connect artists and small businesses with wider markets. Building and developing the venture introduced her to product development, business models, team coordination, and the realities of entrepreneurship. The project was ultimately interrupted by the war in Sudan, but it became an important foundation for her approach to innovation and venture building.
Over time, her interests expanded beyond clinical practice into artificial intelligence, computer vision, digital products, and organisational transformation. She developed a multidisciplinary perspective that connects clinical understanding with technological possibilities and the strategic questions involved in bringing innovation into real-world environments.
Alongside founding Digital Vision Health, Hind works as an AI & Digital Transformation Consultant at Vitalis Medical Training Center, contributing strategic perspectives on the application of emerging technologies, AI adoption, and digital transformation within healthcare and professional education.
Her work also extends to conversations around institutional innovation and the future of education. She has addressed academic leaders, including university deans and department heads, on the role of leadership, technology, and digital transformation in the future of higher education.
“In a world becoming increasingly digital, why does the health of human vision remain insufficiently represented in the way we understand and approach digital wellbeing?”
Building Digital Vision Health
The idea behind Digital Vision Health emerged from a question that became increasingly important throughout Hind’s clinical and technological journey. Digital environments have transformed how people work, study, communicate, and access information. Yet visual health is often approached through fragmented recommendations, general screen-time measures, and isolated interventions.
Hind saw an opportunity to bring together disciplines that have traditionally approached these challenges separately: optometry, vision science, computer vision, artificial intelligence, occupational health, and digital innovation. That opportunity became Digital Vision Health.
Under her leadership, DVH is developing an ecosystem that extends beyond a single product. Its work includes the development of Digital Vision Health Standards, the Healthy Screens Initiative, research-oriented resources, and technology designed to explore visual behaviour in digital environments.
At the technological level, OptiGaze represents one expression of this vision. Built around computer vision and optometric principles, it explores how visual behaviour can be observed and better understood during digital interaction. It forms part of a broader effort to connect measurable visual behaviours with evidence-based approaches to digital visual health.
Digital Vision Health has also been accepted into the Future Health Digital Innovation Challenge, supporting its development within a wider health-innovation ecosystem.
For Hind, the objective is not simply to introduce another health technology product. It is to contribute to the foundations of an emerging interdisciplinary domain: one that connects scientific understanding, responsible technology, institutional awareness, and practical approaches to visual health in the digital age.
Looking Forward
Hind’s long-term ambition is to help shape Digital Vision Health into a recognised field of research, practice, and institutional collaboration.
She envisions a future in which visual health is considered in the design of digital workplaces, educational environments, healthcare systems, and emerging technologies — supported by stronger scientific evidence, responsible AI, and collaboration across disciplines.
Her work is guided by a broader approach to innovation: building frameworks, connecting expertise, challenging existing assumptions, and translating complex ideas into initiatives that can develop beyond individual products or organisations.
She believes the next generation of digital health will require more than technological advancement. It will require a deeper understanding of the human systems technology is designed to serve.
Digital Vision Health exists to help bring human vision into that conversation — not as an afterthought to digital progress, but as an essential part of its future.