World Hearing Day is an annual global advocacy event for raising awareness regarding hearing loss and promoting ear and hearing care, and calling for action to address hearing loss and related issues. Each year, this event is celebrated on 3 March, covering a specific theme on which the World Health Organization and its partners carry out activities based on this theme.
This site is in support of World Hearing Day. On this site, you can register World Hearing Day event with the World Health Organization and report on your activities after March 3rd, 2026. In addition, you will find information on the events, promotional, and educational materials for World Hearing Day, including a repository of translated materials.
Get ready to make a difference! ? World Hearing Day 2027 is just around the corner, and this year’s theme is all about:
This year, WHD highlights the theme Hearing loss doesn’t wait. Neither should you.
Know the signs. Check your hearing!
World Hearing Day 2027 draws attention towards adults living with or at risk of hearing loss. Hearing loss, when unaddressed, impacts many aspects of adult life. It increases the odds of unemployment or underemployment, contributes to social isolation, and is among the leading risk factors of declining cognitive health/dementia. The good news is that adult hearing loss can be prevented and addressed. World Hearing Day 2027 will focus on how this can be done and why its important to do so.
Key messages for 2027:
- Nearly 1 in 4 adults aged 20 and above are living with some degree of hearing loss.
- Hearing loss is commonly gradual in onset and often remains unidentified unless a hearing test is done.
- Governments must act by establishing systematic, universal hearing screening programmes for older adults and including hearing devices and services within national UHC benefit packages.
- People must act to protect their hearing across the life course and check their hearing regularly.
Join Us! Empower yourself and others by participating in World Hearing Day 2027 events.
Please follow this link to the WHO site specific to this 2027
- Key messages
- Call for actions
- Communication objectives
- WHO technical tools
- Integrating childhood hearing screening
- Prevention of hearing loss and ear care
- Assessing impact using tracer indicator
- Target audience
- Related resources
Activity Submission
Submit your planned 2026 activity. This lets the WHO and your peers know which organizations are offering an event this year.
Edit an Existing Activity
Change the details of an activity you have already submitted. We encourage you to modify as further details become available. Particularly after your event is held
See Other Activities
Look at events planned regionally and globally. Features will include maps and search.
Site description:
- Home page – you are here
- Pre Register your anticipated event with the World Health Organization. Registration is now closed.
- We offer real-time Infographics about locations and plans. See multiple formats under the “Planned Events” tab above.
- Report on your Activities. Used to report your actual event. This just opened. It is also possible to edit your events
- User Registration and User Login – or even Reset Password – help us remember you to facilitate reporting your outcomes and make next year easier.
- News – current activities and commentary.
- Promotional materials – to help you implement a World Hearing Day project – or just to advertise the global event. We provided translations in more than 40 languages last year
- Contact – send us a quick note for advice.
Promotional
Materials
We offer digital copies of event announcements, promotional materials, and other resource materials in multiple languages.
Link to WHO WHD Site
The WHO offers an excellent overview of the planned focus for this year’s events. Official language documents are on that site. You will also find videos and links to the previous year’s activities.
Link to World Hearing Forum Site
The World Hearing Forum offers other resources that may be valuable to you in preparing your event.
Member States, partners and stakeholders in the field are encouraged to organize events to raise awareness in communities, in order to address misconceptions around ear and hearing care and ensure accessible ear and hearing care.
Note: The World Hearing Day 2025 Report on Activity is available here.
Note: The World Hearing Day 2024 Report on Activity is available here.
Note: The World Hearing Day 2023 Report on Activity is available here.
Note: The World Hearing Day 2022 Report on Activity is available here.
Please follow this link from the past for an important video message about World Hearing Day and broader hearing issues from the Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. He announced the WHO’s Primary Ear and Hearing Care Manual, which was released on March 3rd, 2023