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Executive Director
Gregg D. Givens

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Welcome to the
Center for Global Hearing
"Science to Humanity"

Our Mission is to encourage the provision and coordination of audiological outreach, and research in hearing health care throughout the world. Our efforts in the area of outreach are focused on community assistance and missions as well as the implementation of remote tele-audiology programs. Academic endeavors will focus on international cooperative programs in research, academe and research.

The World Health Organization states that hearing impairment doubled between 1995 and 2005. While existing efforts in some world-wide programs are exemplary it is our hope that we can provide assistance in making our collective voices louder and more significant in resolving the hearing demands of all global citizens. I invite you to join us in this effort,

Gregg D. Givens

Gregg D. Givens, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Global Hearing
Professor and Chair, Communication Sciences and Disorders
East Carolina University
Greenville, North Carolina, USA
252-744-6080
Givensg@ecu.edu 

OUR PURPOSE

The Center for Global Hearing is an effort to coordinate world-wide hearing health care in the areas of clinical service, research and academia from a non-profit University oriented source. These efforts include the areas of audiology, aural rehabilitation, educational counseling, speech-language therapy, epidemiology and medicine.

OUR VISION

The Center for Global Hearing strives to be an independent, international and sustainable entity, undertaking world-class assistance to those with hearing impairment and the sequela from this impairment.

VALUES

Our values are toward seeking the improvement of the human condition especially as it relates to hearing impairment. This focus includes the family as well as the patient. Our clinical services are consistent with the core values and ethics of the World Health Organization.

Research

• To develop a coordinated research group to examine a global approach to the delivery of services to the hearing impaired.
• To develop unique approaches to problems in the delivery of services to hearing impaired individuals in specific geographical area.
• To develop new technology toward the improvement of clinical services for the hearing impaired.

GOALS AND STRATEGIES

1. To establish The Center for Global Hearing to be recognized and active in national and international forums.
2. Seek global partners in academia, clinical service delivery, and industry.
3. To develop a dynamic, multilingual web site to allow for the current knowledge of auditory functions to be available to the public and professionals.
4. To develop a global referral source for both public and professionals.
5. To develop interaction between students of many cultural background on a global basis in the study of auditory function and its rehabilitation.
6. To train a new generation of students in the area of audiology interested in global concerns of hearing impairment.
7. Promote and create awareness of advances in research and clinical practice to peers.
8. To develop Telepractice delivery of clinical services in audiology.
9. Create and distribute marketing literature to promote the Institute.
10. To enhance the current Ph.D. program in Communication Sciences and Disorders at East Carolina University.
11. Established long-term and recurrent funding to enhance the viability of the Center and its global impact on global hearing health care.
12. Develop long-term sustainable marketing and fundraising strategies.

Donation /Gifting

Organizations and individuals are invited to join our efforts whether it is through monetary, intellectual or volunteering of time.

For more information or to make a gift, please contact:

Patrice M. Frede, Director of Development
College of Allied Health Sciences
ECU Medical and Health Sciences Foundation, Inc
525 Moye Blvd. Greenville, NC, 27834 USA
Email: Fredep@ecu.edu
Phone: 252-744-3523

For the exploration of collaborative intellectual or volunteering of time and effort please contact Gregg D. Givens at East Carolina University’s Center for Global Hearing. 252-744-6080