Meet the POpHHC team
Adrian Davis, PhD
Adrian Davis, PhD, OBE, is currently a Visiting Professor at the Vision and Eye Research Institute, School of Medicine, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. He is a public health scientist who has been responsible for implementing newborn screening - including hearing and vision - in England. He has worked extensively with the global burden of disease team in Seattle and with the WHO. Recently, he has worked on standards for pediatric hearing care and sensory care for people with autism and/or learning disability in England. He is a founding member of GRDDC. He trained initially in theology, psychology and statistics at universities in the UK. He was a founding member of population hearing healthcare network. He is a founding member of GRDDC. He trained initially in theology, psychology and statistics at universities in the UK. He was a founding member of population hearing healthcare network and has received many awards for his work and leadership.
Catherine McMahon, PhD
Professor McMahon is the Head of Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University, Director of the HEAR Centre, a World Hearing Forum member and a WHO collaborating centre. She is also the chair of the Australian Hearing Hub’s Education and Practice committee. Her research centres on understanding the barriers and facilitators to accessing and ultilising hearing healthcare, and the design and implementation of effective care pathways. Professor McMahon worked closely with the World Health Organisation to develop and collate the evidence-base for the World Report on Hearing, and is a Commissioner on the Lancet Commission of Hearing Loss and is co-chair of the “Innovation in Service Delivery” team. Her current work aims to redesign the hearing healthcare pathway to improve outcomes for populations which involves co-production with Aboriginal communities and with older adults to better understand the barriers and enablers of complex interventions. She has extensive experience in workforce development and training in ear and hearing care from vocational training through to Masters training.
Kelly Tremblay, PhD
Dr. Kelly Tremblay, PhD FAAA is an audiologist and neuroscientist who specializes in healthy aging. As a recently retired Professor, her research focussed on understanding the time course of aging and how to capitalize on the brain's plasticity for the purpose of informing communication rehabilitation. The application of this knowledge led to her co-authoring the new World Health Organization (WHO's) guidelines on community-level interventions in integrated care (ICOPE) and contributing to the World Report on Ageing and Health and the World Report on Hearing. She currently holds multiple appointments, providing instruction to students as an Adjunct Professor in the School of Communication Disorders, at Dalhousie University, NS, Canada and Salus University, Osborne College of Audiology, in Elkins Park, PA. USA.
Kathy Pichora-Fuller, PhD
Kathy Pichora-Fuller is Professor Emerita (Psychology, University of Toronto) and Adjunct Professor (Gerontology, Simon Fraser University). She was a faculty member in the School of Audiology and Speech Sciences at the University of British Columbia (1992-2002). For over three decades, she has translated her research on auditory and cognitive aging to address the rehabilitative needs of older adults with age-related hearing and cognitive impairments, with a more recent focus on social engagement and healthy aging, including promoting brain health. She is the audiology expert for the Canadian Longitudinal Study of Aging and the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging. She received the Speech-Language and Audiology Canada Eve Kassirer Lifetime Achievement Award (2021) and the International Award of the American Academy of Audiology (2014). In 2022 she was inducted as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. She started the International Society of Audiology “Hearing in Later Life” Working Group in 2023. Currently, she is Past President of the International Collegium of Rehabilitative Audiologists (ICRA) and is the ICRA representative on the WHO World Hearing Forum. She also represents the International Society of Audiology on the World Rehabilitation Alliance working group on primary care.
Linda Hood, PhD
Linda J. Hood, Ph.D., is a Professor and Hearing Scientist in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Director of the Auditory Physiology Laboratory, and Associate Director for Research at the National Center for Childhood Deafness and Family Communication at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Dr. Hood’s research career, supported by research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), focuses on auditory physiology in peripheral and central systems, characterizing auditory function using objective approaches, auditory neuropathy/auditory synaptopathy, efferent auditory function, hereditary hearing loss, auditory function across the lifespan, and comparative hearing studies. Dr. Hood lectures globally on topics related to her research and areas of expertise. She the Principal Investigator of the NIH-NIDCD Grant Number R13DC020098 that provides support for the Population Hearing Healthcare annual meeting.
Michelle Arnold, PhD, AuD
Dr. Arnold is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders and a director of the Auditory Rehabilitation and Clinical Trials laboratory. Dr. Arnold holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Aging Sciences, with a concentration in health policy and practice, as well as a clinical doctorate degree in audiology. In addition, Dr. Arnold is an American Speech-Language-Hearing Association certified audiologist with license to practice in the state of Florida. Her research focuses on hearing health policy and aging, hearing health care access and utilization, and hearing loss and cognition. Dr. Arnold was integral in the study design of the hearing rehabilitation program tested in the ACHIEVE study.
Carrie Nieman, MD, MPH
Carrie Nieman, MD, MPH, is an Associate Professor in the Division of Otology, Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery within the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Nieman is Core Faculty at the Johns Hopkins Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health. She is the co-founder of Access HEARS, a non-profit committed to the delivery of affordable, accessible hearing care. As a clinician, researcher and social entrepreneur, her commitment to social justice is inseparable from her drive to provide innovative solutions to address disparities in hearing care. Her epidemiological work documents widespread disparities in hearing health care. In order to move toward innovative, evidence-based and sustainable solutions, Nieman works across disciplines and translates research and approaches in gerontology, social design, behavioral intervention research, community-based participatory research and human factors to advance hearing health equity and bring innovation to underserved communities.
Kelly Reavis, PhD, MPH
Kelly Reavis, PhD, MPH, is a licensed audiologist with a doctorate in epidemiology. She has nearly 20 years of auditory research experience at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Rehabilitation Research & Development, National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research located at the VA Portland Health Care System. Her research focuses on the risk factors for, and distribution of, auditory injuries among Service members and Veterans. Her work often focuses at the juncture of audiology, epidemiology, and public health, with the aim of developing effective prevention and intervention strategies for hearing loss.