UCT-CEHI aims to promote the application of the principles and techniques of advocacy, strategic leadership and programme management to improve the performance of district, provincial and national prevention of blindness programmes.
UCT-CEHI is administratively run from H53, Old Main Building, Groote Schuur Hospital, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa and the training programmes are hosted in the Training Centre in the same venue. The offices and training centre are situated within the premises of Groote Schuur Hospital, which is adjacent to the Health Sciences Faculty of the University of Cape Town. Students registered for academic programmes at UCT-CEHI have access to the Health Sciences Library, computer facilities and the internet.