Saturday October 25

Saturday 25 October 2025

Registration opens at 0800 

 

Room 1: Session 8: Best Practices

Moderator: Asitha Jayawardena

Room 2: Session 9: Training and Education

Moderator: Racheal Hapunda

08:30

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

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

Norberto Martinez

08:45

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

Alexandra Hustedt-Mai & Michael G. Heinz

Moving from Relief to Development – First Steps

 Joan McCormack

09:00

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

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

 Kalishia Naidu

09:15

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

Kennedy Mugambi & Rosemary Kihoto & Nicholas Nyamweya

Language Access Challenges in Clinical Practice

Jacinto Fragoso 

09:30

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

Mathew Kiewski, Maya Lurie, Sajni Shah, Youngseo Kwak

 

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

Rolvix Patterson

09:45

A Deaf Ecological Systems Approach to Raising a Deaf Child

Jessica Beaty Bajan

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

Joyce Sagun

 1000                                                        GROUP PHOTOGRAPH  

 10:15                                                                  Tea Break /Exhibitors

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

Room 2: Session 11: Other & Technology

Moderator: Kerry Pendak

 

10.30

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

Amit Sachdeva

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

Ashwin Reddy

 

 

10.45

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

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

Prasanta Poudyal

 

 

11:00

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

Suzanne Purdy

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

Stefany Lazieh

 

 

11:15

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

 Olawale Ogundiran

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

Nadar Zalaquett

 

 

11:30

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

Monik Mota

 

 

 

 

12:00

Short Lunch break  

 

 1230

 

 Awards

 13:00

Room 1: Session: 12 – Keynote

Moderator: Norberto Martinez

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

Dr. Kee B Park

 

14:00

CGHH Best Practices

Presenter: King Chung

 

14:15

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

Presenter: Dr Diego Santana-Hernández

 

14:45

Closing Ceremony

James E Saunders