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Dialechti Tsimpida, PhD, MSc, SFHEA, CPsychol, AFBPsS (she/her/hers)

Lecturer in Gerontology
University of Southampton
Southampton, England, United Kingdom

Dr Dalia Tsimpida is a Lecturer in Gerontology at the University of Southampton, a Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (AFBPsS), and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). As the Faculty Advisor of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) Student Chapter at the University of Southampton- the first of its kind in the UK- she fosters student engagement in the field of ageing research. Dr Tsimpida contributes to the academic community as an Associate Editor for the international journal Ageing & Society.

Over the past decade, Dr Tsimpida's work has centered on the social epidemiology and public health aspects of hearing loss and its co-existing noncommunicable diseases. She has primarily focused on health inequalities, striving to understand their underlying mechanisms while developing interventions that span the lifecourse. Dr Tsimpida's role as the Primary Investigator of the New National Study of Hearing resulted in the long-awaited update of hearing loss prevalence estimates among older adults in England in 2022, after 40 years. Her research uncovered a previously unknown north-south divide in the prevalence of hearing loss among older adults of similar age profiles, challenging the assumption of the inevitability of hearing loss in older age, commonly referred to as 'age-related hearing loss'.

Dr Tsimpida's work pioneered a new era in assessing hearing health inequalities by proposing the monitoring of the burden and distribution of hearing loss in older adults using routine health information systems, revealing the limitations of current data for planning sustainable care models, and proposed that the prevalence estimates should be based on the already available, actual data that reflect populations' needs, rather than on age projections. Dr Tsimpida's research has significantly influenced policy, prompting the integration of hearing care into health strategies both in the UK and globally.

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