Topic: New Paradigm of Disability: Impact on Assessing Costs of
Blindness
Dr. Kirchner directs the Department of Policy Research and Program
Evaluation for the American Foundation for the Blind. She is co-editor
for Research of the Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness (JVISB)
and is a lecturer at Columbia University’s School of Public Health.
Her research concentrates on concepts, measure and policy uses of
socio-demographic statistics on disability.
Corinne Kirchner, PhD