2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
10/24/2016 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | Building Resources for Hearing Health Care in the Developing World | BGPOP Building 4A/B/C
Building Resources for Hearing Health Care in the Developing World
The needs of those with hearing loss in developing countries must be addressed at multiple levels of society and with the commitments, time, and resources from multiple directions. On a global level, efforts involve development of juried resources that can be used in demonstrating need, developing plans, implementing programs, and defining resources. These efforts do not occur in isolation but rather through broad commitments from many sources that promote work focusing on hearing health by global organizations such as the World Health Organization.
Further, this effort cannot succeed unilaterally. Imperative are commitments from individuals, professional organizations, and humanitarian bodies to participate in and support efforts. The resources built can, in turn, provide value to those working in regional and local environments.
This presentation focuses on work on a broad programmatic level and needs to advocate and place hearing health on the global agenda. The presentation also considers how those working on individual, local levels can advocate and contribute to efforts while also deriving benefit from these efforts. The need for participation in these activities by professional and humanitarian organizations is highlighted along with recent accomplishments.
- Listeners will have an appreciation for the varied aspects and needs of program development.
- Listeners will have an appreciation for recent accomplishments and needs for the future.
- Listeners will have an appreciation for how they can be involved.
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Presenters/Authors
Jackie Clark
(), UT Dallas/Callier Center, jclark@utdallas.edu;
Professor Jackie Clark is currently a Clinical Associate Professor UT Dallas’ School of Brain & Behavior Sciences – AuD Program, and has been appointed as a Research Scholar at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She was the recipient of the American Academy of Audiology Humanitarian Award in 2005. When in Texas, she carries an active clinical caseload with clinical duties involving adult and pediatric diagnosis, hearing aid dispensing, and electrophysiological assessments. She has been actively engaged in a personal annual philanthropic program throughout Sub-Saharan Africa which she began in 1998.
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Linda Hood
(), Vanderbilt University, linda.j.hood@vanderbilt.edu;
Linda J. Hood, Ph.D., is a Professor and Hearing Scientist in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences and Associate Director for Research at the National Center for Childhood Deafness and Family Communication at Vanderbilt University. She is an Honorary Professor in the School of Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Dr. Hood received her master's degree in Audiology from Kent State University and Ph.D. in Hearing Science from the University of Maryland. She completed an NIH post?doctoral fellowship and was a faculty member at the Kresge Hearing Research Laboratory, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, in New Orleans, Louisiana for 25 years. Dr. Hood’s research, supported by the National Institutes of Health, focuses on auditory physiology, characterizing auditory function in pre-mature infants, auditory neuropathy/dys?synchrony, hereditary hearing loss, auditory function across the lifespan, and efferent auditory function. In addition to research and teaching, Dr. Hood participates in review and working groups of the National Institutes of Health National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIH-NIDCD) and is a panelist for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. She is a Past President of the American Academy of Audiology, Past President of the American Auditory Society and currently she is the President of the International Society of Audiology.
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