CDC’s Public Health Grand Rounds to Address Hearing Loss and Prevention

The monthly series by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Public Health Grand Rounds, will host a session called "It's Loud Out There: Hearing Health across the Lifespan" at 1 p.m. on June 20, 2017, at their headquarters in Atlanta. (http://bit.ly/2ta54FY.) Experts will discuss the problem of hearing loss at different ages, its causes, prevention strategies, and public health solutions. Among those invited to present at the session are John Eichwald, MD, lead health scientist at the National Office for Environmental Health at the CDC; Deanna Meinke, PhD, professor of audiology and speech-language sciences at the University of Northern Colorado; William Murphy, PhD, research physicist on the Hearing Loss Prevention Team at the CDC; and Shelly Chadha, MBBS, PhD, technical officer in Prevention of Deafness and Hearing Loss at the World Health Organization and this year's keynote speaker at the American Academy of Audiology (AAA) conference.

The session will be open to both CDC employees and the public. The CDC has security clearance requirements for those wishing to come to the event. (http://bit.ly/2t9YYFv.) For those unable to attend in person, a live webcast will be available on the CDC's website (http://ift.tt/2oaMSvJ), and the link will become live five minutes before the session begins. ​

Published: 6/16/2017 9:12:00 AM

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