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Activities of The Graeme Clark Foundation

Professor Graeme Clark will be a familiar name  as the Australian scientist who pioneered and led the team that developed the Australian multi channel Cochlear implant. The inspirational Emeritus Professor Graeme Clark, although approaching 90 years of age, is still active and involved in research and promotion of the Cochlear implant and other scientific innovations to help those who are deaf and have hearing loss  and those with sensory impairments.

In 2008 Professor Clark established a charity, the Graeme Clark Foundation (GCF).

For those interested in reading more about please visit www.graemeclarkfoundation.org

The Foundation supports research and projects to enable disadvantaged children and young people to benefit from cochlear implantation, and also to encourage young people with CI or HA to become involved in research and as scientists themselves. 

One project is the Ear Bus ‘Get Loud in India’ Project

This project is being funded and conducted in collaboration with the generous support of New Community Ringwood Baptist Church. It aims to address hearing loss and ear disease in Rural India, which is a silent and growing epidemic. The project will :

  1. provide higher quality community-based hearing care for people from rural and low income settings in India through partners of Christian Medical College (CMC) Vellore; 
  2. equip an ‘Ear Bus’ to improve access to hearing healthcare for the poor in rural and remote areas of India;
  3. support identification of people who might benefit from hearing aids and cochlear implants;
  4. help CMC Vellore doctors operational linkages to rural not-for-profit settings.

One little boy, Master Subikshan, was helped by the activities of the Graeme Clark Foundation. having received his implant in January 2025, he will be having auditory verbal therapy regularly to ensure that he benefits as much as possible from his new hearing.

Prof Clark takes a great interest in the advocacy activities of CIICA and you can see his video supporting our Advocacy Conference here: CI ADVOCACY IN ACTION: FIRST GLOBAL CONFERENCE MAY 2024 – CIICA

 

 

13 March 2025

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