Saturday October 25

 

 

Room 1: Session 8: Best Practices

Moderator: Asitha Jayawardena

Room 2: Session 9: Training and Education

Moderator: Racheal Hapunda

08:30

Combined hearing and eye screening of new-borns – a pilot study in Cameroon -empowering families

Gaelle Vanelssa Ngankam Fotsing Epse Vofo

Certification Course for Ear and Hearing Care: Augmenting the Manpower Needs in the Philippines.

Norberto Martinez

08:45

Empowering Communities for Ear health: Task-Shifting from Otolaryngologists to Community Ear Health Workers (CEHW): a mixed method study from Nepal.

Manita Pyakurel

Moving from Relief to Development – First Steps

 

 Joan McCormack

09:00

Accessible Precision Audiology Research Center (APARC): Community-Engaged Hearing Research in Indiana and Beyond

Alexandra Hustedt-Mai & Michael G. Heinz

A Review of the Use of Simulation in Higher Education in South Africa – 2010-2024

 Kalishia Naidu

09:15 Project Dhvani Balavidyalaya – a successful and scalable model for oral early intervention of deaf and hard of hearing children. Meera Suresh

Language Access Challenges in Clinical Practice

Jacinto Fragoso 

09:30

Scaling Newborn Hearing Screening in Kenya Early Experiences, Lessons, and Best Practices.

Kennedy Mugambi & Rosemary Kihoto & Nicholas Nyamweya

Developing and evaluating an mHealth Tympanometry Training Program for Lay Health Screeners in Resource-Constrained Settings

Rolvix Patterson

09:45

Kinetic Energy-Powered Hearing Aids: A Frugal, Child-Centred Solution for Off-Grid Accessibility

Mathew Kiewski 

Training, Education, and Preparedness of Audiologists in High-Income vs Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

Joyce Sagun

 

 10:00                                                                  Tea Break /Exhibitors

  Room 1: Session 10: Advocacy & Community Engagement. Moderator: Kathryn Noonan

Room 2: Session 11: Other & Technology

Moderator: Kerry Pendak

 

11:00

Strengthening Primary Ear and Hearing Care in Rural Himachal Pradesh: A Community-Based Hearing Health Initiative in Shimla, India

Amit Sachdeva

Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Regional Otolaryngology, Head, and Neck Surgery Centers of Excellence in Sub-Saharan Africa (other)

Olga Djoutsop Mbougo

 

11:15

Regional and Sociodemographic Disparities in Hearing Difficulty Among Older Adults in India: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of 72,250 Participants from LASI Wave 1.

Venkatesh Uthirapathy

Assessing the hearing health of brick kiln workers in Bhaktapur, Nepal (other)

 Ashwin Reddy

 

11:30

Community-based initiatives for improving ear and hearing healthcare equity for Māori and Pacific children and their families in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Suzanne Purdy

CMV Testing for Infants Who Failed Newborn Hearing Screen: Considerations for Care of High-Risk Populations in Urban Settings (other)

Evette Ronner

 

11:45

Presbycusis as a hidden contributor to fall among older adults with osteoarthritis

 Olawale Ogundiran

Validity of non-specialist-based screening of hearing loss using mobile technology-based audiology in tertiary care hospital Nepal (tech)

Prasanta Poudyal

 

12:00

Hearing loss prevalence and associated factors in chronic kidney disease patients under conservative treatment in Brazil advocacy.

Monik Mota

Global Disparities in Otologic Surgical Equipment: Findings from A Global Cross-Sectional Survey (tech).

Stefany Lazieh

 

12:15

Open

Comparison of Audiological and Vestibular Services across World Bank Income Groups (tech).

Nadar Zalaquett

12:30

Poster Presentations

Cafeteria

 

13:00

 

Lunch Break / Exhibitors

 

 

 

14:00

Room 1: Session: 12 – Keynote

Moderator: Karl White

Bridging research with policy and implementation to promote global health priorities in low resource communities and countries

Dr. Kee B Park

 

 

15:00

CGHH Best Practices

Presenter: King Chung

 

15:15

Sensory impairments as platform for EHC: CBM & WHA Resolution 2025

Presenter: Dr Diego Santana-Hernández

15:45

Awards / Photo Session 

 

16:00

Closing Ceremony

James E Saunders