ORC has been a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for the Eye Care and Prevention of Blindness (WHOCC) since 2011. (Last re-designation: 2023)

National collaborations:

· Ministry of Health and Medical Education:

     - Center for Noncommunicable Disease (NCD) Control & Prevention   

              - Eye Health and Prevention of Blindness Office

     - Deputy of Curative Affairs

     - National Ophthalmic Research Network

· Central Eye Bank of Iran

· Iranian Research Association for Vision and Ophthalmology (IRAVO)

· Iranian Diabetes Society

· National Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

· Iranian Blood Transfusion Organization

· Royan Institute

· School of Advanced Technologies in Medicine

· Department of Medical Physics, Tehran University

· Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Tehran University

· Amirkabir University of Technology

· Sharif University of Technology

· Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology

International collaborations:

· International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO)

· NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)

· Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington: Global Burden Disease (GBD)

· SUNY Upstate and Downstate Medical Universities

· Harvard Medical School

· University of Wisconsin

· Institut de la Vision, Paris

· Global Health, Aarhus University

· Polytechnic University of Milan

· Medical Genetics Center, Radboud University, the Netherlands

· Center for Medical Genetics, Ghent University, Belgium

· University of Würzburg

· University of Geneva

· Singapore National Eye Center