Cochlear (https://ift.tt/2oVevGx) has pledged a gift of $10 million to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to establish the Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health in honor of World Hearing Day this year. The Cochlear Center will focus on addressing the global impact of hearing loss by conducting research to determine the gravity of hearing loss as a public health issue, developing and testing interventions to mitigate the effects of hearing loss, and helping craft policies and strategies to ensure successful implementation of those interventions at the local, national, and global levels. The Center will also recruit and train researchers and public health experts to advance these goals.
The gift of $10 million will be made over a period of 10 years. Cochlear will collaborate with the Center and have representation on the Center’s advisory board to provide feedback and help identify opportunities for continued industry-academic collaborations. Since Cochlear’s headquarters are based on the campus of Macquarie University in Sydney and is next to the Australian Hearing Hub, the company is hoping that this gift will facilitate closer industry, academic, and clinical engagement to spur future training and research partnerships, including shared postdoctoral fellowships, a shared masters of public health program, shared PhD programs, and faculty exchanges. Cochlear and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health celebrated the official opening of the Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health on World Hearing Day, March 3.
The gift of $10 million will be made over a period of 10 years. Cochlear will collaborate with the Center and have representation on the Center’s advisory board to provide feedback and help identify opportunities for continued industry-academic collaborations. Since Cochlear’s headquarters are based on the campus of Macquarie University in Sydney and is next to the Australian Hearing Hub, the company is hoping that this gift will facilitate closer industry, academic, and clinical engagement to spur future training and research partnerships, including shared postdoctoral fellowships, a shared masters of public health program, shared PhD programs, and faculty exchanges. Cochlear and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health celebrated the official opening of the Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health on World Hearing Day, March 3.
Published: 3/23/2018 9:36:00 AM
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iHear Medical (https://ift.tt/1pm5Mpw) is partnering with Atlazo to develop an advanced digital hardware platform, System on Chip (SoC), which will power a new operating system designed to shift devices from relying on visual displays to voice commands and the auditory domain for hearing aids and hearables. With the Hearing of Things (HoT) operating system, users can selectively listen to and send communications to their social media accounts and text messages with hearing devices instead of their cell phone or computer, eliminating the need to be tethered to traditional computing devices for sending and receiving information. The HoT standard will offer bi-directional wireless connectivity to everyday devices, from mobile phones to home appliances. Hearing devices powered by the HoT operating system will streamline the user experience for mobile phones, including phone calling and control of home appliances with a voice user interface. These devices will also offer real-time health tracking and relay personal and health information into the ear privately and discreetly. 