World Hearing Day 2027

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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.

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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, 2027. 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:

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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.

Call for action

Ministries of Health & Member States

• Establish universal systematic hearing screening for older adults using validated tools
• Organize awareness campaigns to promote safe listening and good ear care. 
• Implement hearing conservation programmes for noisy work environments
• Include hearing devices and rehabilitation in universal health coverage packages
• Adopt and implement the WHO global standards for safe listening and carry out awareness campaigns

Adults

• Practise safe listening habits and good ear care every day.
• Take a self-screening test using the free WHO hearWHO app.
• Know your signs, Check your hearing!
• Get your hearing tested by a professional if you are older than 50 years, have any sign suggestive of hearing loss, or fail the self-screening test.
• Use hearing devices when advised.

Civil society

• Advocate for the integration of universal hearing screening for older adults, and hearing devices/services, into health benefit packages.
• Promote good ear care and safe listening through awareness campaigns.
• Raise awareness about the importance of identifying and addressing hearing loss early.
• Organize hearing screening events on World Hearing Day 2027.

Please follow this link to the WHO site specific to this 2027 . There is much more global information there. This site does not attempt to duplicate their additions. We are focused on providing educational materials, recording and compiling reports of events, and sharing our past successes through the report of activities.

 

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.

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