Alarcos Cieza

MSc (Psychology), PhD (Medical Psychology), WHO Department for Management of NCDs, Disability, Violence and Injury Prevention, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

Dr Cieza oversees WHO’s work on prevention of deafness and blindness, disability and rehabilitation related to policies, medical care, community-based rehabilitation, assistive devices and technologies, data collection approaches and capacity building.

Latest Contribution

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World Health Assembly adopts a resolution on hearing loss: a defining moment for the global hearing health community

1 November 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric

The World Health Assembly recently adopted a resolution on hearing loss. In this article Shelly Chadha and Alarcos Cieza outline how the resolution came to be and how the World Health Organization and its partners plan to implement it. The...