I am proud to be part of Hearing Health Foundation (HHF), a 60-year-old organization that envisions a world with permanent cures for hearing loss, tinnitus, and other disorders of the inner ear. We can achieve only this by empowering groundbreaking scientific research, and by promoting the importance of hearing health. Hearing loss affects more than 48 million people in the U.S., and more than 460 million people worldwide.