At Hearing Australia, we make it easy for every Australian to receive the expert hearing care they deserve.
Lifespan Health and Wellbeing Research Centre
Advancing social, emotional, and cognitive health.
Macquarie University Reading Clinic
We provide evidence-based assessments and intervention for children, teenagers and adults with reading and spelling difficulties, and professional development for teachers and clinicians supporting people with poor reading and spelling.
Psychology Clinic at MQ Health
High-quality psychological treatment for all ages.
NextSense
Hearing and vision services to help you achieve your potential.
MQ Health Speech and Hearing Clinic
Delivering a comprehensive range of diagnostic and rehabilitative speech pathology and audiology services for people of all ages.
Student Wellbeing
Provides a range of services to improve student wellbeing and help you reach your potential during studies.
The Shepherd Centre
The Shepherd Centre gives children with hearing loss the tools they need to learn to listen and speak.
Professionals at the Australian Hearing Hub are working together to optimise hearing health for all and transform life outcomes for people with hearing loss, by collaboration among a community of organisations dedicated to hearing research, innovation, education, and practice.
Collaborative Research
The Australian Hearing Hub brings some of the country’s best hearing and healthcare organisations together with one of the country’s leading research universities to collaboration on world-leading research.
Participate in Research
There are many ways to get involved; explore our current active research opportunities.
Shared Research Facilities
The Australian Hearing Hub Shared Research Facilities provide opportunities for collaborative research. These facilities are for internal Australian Hearing Hub use only.
At Hearing Australia, we make it easy for every Australian to receive the expert hearing care they deserve.
Lifespan Health and Wellbeing Research Centre
Advancing social, emotional, and cognitive health.
Macquarie University Reading Clinic
We provide evidence-based assessments and intervention for children, teenagers and adults with reading and spelling difficulties, and professional development for teachers and clinicians supporting people with poor reading and spelling.
Psychology Clinic at MQ Health
High-quality psychological treatment for all ages.
NextSense
Hearing and vision services to help you achieve your potential.
MQ Health Speech and Hearing Clinic
Delivering a comprehensive range of diagnostic and rehabilitative speech pathology and audiology services for people of all ages.
Student Wellbeing
Provides a range of services to improve student wellbeing and help you reach your potential during studies.
The Shepherd Centre
The Shepherd Centre gives children with hearing loss the tools they need to learn to listen and speak.
Professionals at the Australian Hearing Hub are working together to optimise hearing health for all and transform life outcomes for people with hearing loss, by collaboration among a community of organisations dedicated to hearing research, innovation, education, and practice.
Collaborative Research
The Australian Hearing Hub brings some of the country’s best hearing and healthcare organisations together with one of the country’s leading research universities to collaboration on world-leading research.
Participate in Research
There are many ways to get involved; explore our current active research opportunities.
Shared Research Facilities
The Australian Hearing Hub Shared Research Facilities provide opportunities for collaborative research. These facilities are for internal Australian Hearing Hub use only.
Left to right: Dr Rebecca Kim, Dr John Newall and Associate Professor Piers Dawes
Researchers from the Department of Linguistics, in the Australian Hearing Hub, have been awarded a highly competitive grant from the United Nations’ Global Partnership for Assistive Technology to address hearing loss in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Principal Investigator Dr John Newall and his fellow researchers, Associate Professor Piers Dawes and Dr Rebecca Kim, will lead a Global Hearing Co-operative across 16 countries to deliver the project, which will provide information on hearing needs and test the benefits of low-cost pre-programmed hearing aids for people in LMICs.
There are 466 million people with hearing loss worldwide and stark global inequalities in hearing health: 80 per cent of people with hearing loss live in LMICs. While hearing aids are very effective in reducing the impact of hearing loss, there are few opportunities for individuals in such countries to access them.
“This project will drive our understanding of the hearing health needs of those in a diverse range of low- and middle-income countries, and investigate the efficacy of low-cost, scalable hearing interventions,” Dr Newall said.
To deliver this project, Dr Newall and his Macquarie University colleagues will work with a Global Hearing Co-operative network that includes Cambodia, China, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Malawi, Malaysia, Nepal, the Philippines, the Russian Federation, Samoa, South Africa, Thailand and Turkey.
Dr Newall is an audiologist whose primary area of expertise is hearing loss and hearing rehabilitation in LMICs. Dr Newall has led investigations of hearing handicap as well as an investigation of the effectiveness of two large-scale hearing aid donation programmes in the Philippines.
In April, a delegation of Australian hearing health leaders, researchers, clinicians, and support staff from the Universal Newborn Hearing Screening (UNHS) Expert Working Group visited China.
Systemic racism significantly affects the health and well-being of priority populations including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Therefore system and structural levers must be identified along with institutions and organisations who can lead transformational social and political change.
More than 150 people attended a Macquarie University Hearing event on 4 March to celebrate World Hearing Day.
The theme of World Hearing Day 2024 was ‘Changing Mindsets’, with a focus on challenging stigmatising misconceptions by raising awareness and sharing information.
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