Professor Andrew W Smith has been an Honorary Professor at the International Centre for Evidence on Disability at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine since 2008. His interest is studying, promoting and teaching public health approaches to prevention and rehabilitation of hearing loss in less developed parts of the world, and in disadvantaged communities in high-income countries.
Latest Contribution
Public Health Planning for Hearing Impairment (2022)
The World Report on Hearing, published in 2021 by the WHO reports that 430 million people in the world have moderate or worse hearing loss, all of whom require rehabilitation [1]. Over 1.5 billion have any degree of hearing loss....
Public health planning for hearing impairment (2017)
In 2009 Professor Andrew Smith and Dr Daksha Patel identified the need for awareness of public health methods in hearing healthcare planning. In 2010 the first training course was held, and since then 760 health workers from 41 countries have...
