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.
Report
Your Event(s)
Report your completed event(s). This lets the WHO and your peers recognize your accomplishments. The deadline for reporting your activities is April 30, 2025
Modify
an Existing Report
Making changes to your already reported event can be helpful.
We will ask for a simple title and description, your primary country or region, and any additional regions. We will then ask yes/no responses that hope to broadly describe your event for statistical purposes. If you choose to hilight one indivdual’s high impact story we now have a section for you to describe this. Finally, we will give you the option to upload up to four photos from the event. You should feel comfortable that you have the right to publish these images based on your local standards.
We want to make it clear that even if you missed registration you are strongly encouraged to report a project. Reporting is the main data source we use to understand World Hearing Day and promote it in the future.
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, 2025. In addition, you will find information on the events, promotional, and educational materials for World Hearing Day, including a repository of translated materials.
- 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 41 languages this year
- Contact – send us a quick note for advice.
- Search – At the top right of each page; you will find a search box that looks at the whole site. This includes terms that may be hidden in resource files
Communication with us is in two steps. Registration of projects you plan to complete, and then Reporting of projects you have completed. Registration of events for 2025 is now closed, Reporting of events is now open
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.
Get ready to make a difference! 🌟 World Hearing Day 2025 is just around the corner, and this year’s theme is all about “Changing mindsets: empower yourself to make ear and hearing care a reality for all!”
This year’s theme builds upon the 2024 focus on changing mindsets towards ear and hearing care. We invite individuals of all ages to empower themselves to ensure healthy ears and hearing for themselves and others. This campaign aims to inspire behaviour change to protect hearing from loud sounds, prevent hearing loss, check hearing regularly, use hearing devices if needed, and support those living with hearing loss. Empowered individuals can drive change within themselves and in society at large.
Key messages for 2025:
- By 2030, over 500 million people are expected to have disabling hearing loss requiring rehabilitation.
- Over one billion young people face the risk of permanent hearing loss due to prolonged exposure to loud sounds during recreational pastimes such as listening to music and video gameplay.
- How we hear in the future depends on how we care for our ears today as many cases of hearing loss can be avoided through the adoption of safe listening and good hearing care practices. For those living with hearing loss, early identification and access to timely rehabilitation are essential to achieving their highest potential.
- You can take steps today to ensure good hearing health throughout life.
Join Us! Empower yourself and others by participating in World Hearing Day 2025 events.
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 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 for an important video message about World Hearing Day and broader hearing issues from the Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. He announces the WHO’s Primary Ear and Hearing Care Manual, which was released on March 3rd, 2023