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Susan D Emmett

Adjunct Associate Professor of Global Health
Duke Global Health Institute
Trent 333, Box 90519, Durham, NC 27708
310 Trent Drive, Box 90519, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances


An Ounce of Prevention: Reducing Global Hearing Loss Through Primary Prevention · June 27, 2017 International Meeting or Conference International Federation of Otorhinolaryngological Societies 21th World Congress, Paris, France
Global Hearing Health: The Convergence of Otology and Public Health to Reduce Hearing Loss Disparities in Low Resource Settings · December 21, 2016 Invited Talk Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
Strategies to Address Global Hearing Loss Disparities · December 15, 2016 Invited Talk Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
Concerns of the Students and Young Doctor · December 10, 2016 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Symposium on Humanity and Medicine: Furthering the Art of Doctoring, Baltimore, MD
Quality of Life and Cost-Effectiveness of Cochlear Implantation · October 16, 2016 National Scientific Meeting American Cochlear Implant Alliance CI 2015 Symposium, Washington, DC
Global Challenges and Strategies for Hearing Loss Prevention · June 15, 2016 Invited Talk XXXV Panamerican Congress of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Havana, Cuba
Expanding Access to Cochlear Implantation · June 14, 2016 Other XXXV Panamerican Congress of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Havana, Cuba
Cochlear Implant Cost Effectiveness in Latin America · June 14, 2016 Invited Talk XXXV Panamerican Congress of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Havana, Cuba
Moving Beyond GDP: Cost Effectiveness of Cochlear Implantation and Deaf Education in Latin America · May 20, 2016 National Scientific Meeting American Otological Society 149th Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
Expanding Access: Cost-Effectiveness of Cochlear Implantation in Emerging Economies · October 16, 2015 Invited Talk American Cochlear Implant Alliance 2015 Symposium, Washington, DC
Cochlear Implantation and Deaf Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Cost Effectiveness Study · October 9, 2015 Invited Talk 6th International Conference of the Coalition for Global Hearing Health, Washington, DC
Hearing Health Advocacy · October 9, 2015 Other 6th International Conference of the Coalition for Global Hearing Health, Washington, DC
History of Stapedectomy · September 26, 2015 Invited Talk 77th Annual Meeting of the Otosclerosis Study Group, Dallas, TX
Expanding Access to Cochlear Implantation - 3rd Congress of European Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery · June 15, 2015 Other Prague, Czech Republic
Cost Effectiveness of Cochlear Implantation in Developing Countries: Disability Adjusted Life Years · June 10, 2015 Invited Talk 3rd Congress of European Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Prague, Czech Republic
GDP Matters: Cost Effectiveness of Cochlear Implantation and Deaf Education in Sub-Saharan Africa · April 26, 2015 National Scientific Meeting American Otological Society 148th Annual Meeting, Boston, MA
Connecting Early Life Undernutrition to Hearing Loss: Evidence from Nepal · March 28, 2015 National Scientific Meeting American Society for Nutrition at Experimental Biology 2015, Boston, MA
What’s Nutrition Got To Do With It? Early Childhood Malnutrition and Later-Life Hearing Loss in Rural Nepal · July 25, 2014 Invited Talk 5th International Conference of the Coalition for Global Hearing Health, Oxford, United Kingdom
Nutritional Deficiency and Hearing Loss: A Convergence of Hypotheses, Limited Evidence, and Public Health Mandate · June 27, 2014 Invited Talk National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
The Socioeconomic Impact of Hearing Loss in US Adults · May 17, 2014 National Scientific Meeting American Otological Society 147th Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV
Nutritional Deficiency and Hearing Loss: A Convergence of Hypotheses, Evidence, and Public Health Mandate · May 12, 2014 Invited Talk 3rd International Vitamin Conference, Washington, DC
Bilateral Hearing Loss is Associated with Decreased Nonverbal Intelligence in U.S. Children Ages 6 to 16 Years · January 10, 2014 National Scientific Meeting Triological Society Combined Section Meeting, Miami, FL
Early Childhood Undernutrition Increases the Risk of Hearing Loss Evident in Young Adulthood in Rural Nepal · November 15, 2013 Invited Talk The 29th Politzer Society Meeting: the International Society for Otologic Surgery and Science, Antalya, Turkey
Hearing Loss is Associated with Decreased Nonverbal Intelligence in Rural Nepal - World Health Organization Symposium on Primary Ear and Hearing Care · June 4, 2013 Other International Federation of Otorhinolaryngological Societies 20th World Congress, Seoul, Korea