Cheka R Spencer

Consultant ENT Surgeon (Rhinology and Facial Plastics)

MSc, AFHEA, FRCS (ORL-HNS), Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK; Member of the ENT UK Global Health Committee. @ENTUKGlobal

Global Health – Section Editor

Latest Contribution

Photo showing group at international newborn hearing screening training for Francophone Africa.

Prof Tanon of the Côte d’Ivoire and Stephanie Unterrieder of MED-EL: challenges and successes of a public-private partnership

5 July 2022 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric, ENT

The Côte d’Ivoire (RCI) is a large country on the West African coast. It has recently launched a pioneering neonatal hearing screening programme. Dr Cheka Spencer caught up with Prof Marie-Josée Tanon to discuss this and other recent developments which...

Photo showing Urmila Gurung undertaking ear surgery

In conversation with Robin Youngs

1 November 2019 | | ENT, Otology, Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric

Members of ENT UK (The British Association of Otolaryngologists and Head and Neck Surgeons) have a long tradition of humanitarian work in countries in Africa and Asia (see article with Professor Davis Howard in previous issue for example). The ENT...

Shelly Chadha and Elaine Mukaaya at World Hearing Day.

Breaking barriers in Uganda: the story of Elaine Mukaaya

1 July 2019 | | ENT, Paediatric ENT, Auditory Implants, Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric

More than 9% of sub-Saharan Africa’s one billion people live with disabling hearing loss, with children having among the highest rates of childhood hearing loss in the world [1]. Sadly, in concordance with the inverse care law – proposed by...

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