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Dr Dalia Tsimpida

Lecturer in Gerontology

Research interests

  • Public Health, Policy and Systems Research
  • Healthy Ageing and Longevity
  • Social epidemiology and multimorbidity in later life

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Email: D.Tsimpida@soton.ac.uk

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Dr Dalia Tsimpida is a Lecturer in Gerontology at the TV, a Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (AFBPsS), and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). In the Department of Gerontology, she serves as the Examination Officer and Employability Coordinator.

 

Dr Tsimpida is the Thematic Cluster Lead for the 'Data Skills & Methods' Theme at the , where she oversees the interdisciplinary training and support for PGR students across the SCDTP's four partner universities (Universities of Southampton, Brighton, Portsmouth and Chichester). As the Faculty Advisor of the Student Chapter at the TV- the first of its kind in the UK- she fosters student engagement in the field of ageing research.

 

In addition, Dr. Tsimpida contributes to the academic community as an Associate Editor for the international journal Ageing & Society, an Academic Editor for the Sections of Gerontology and Public Health and Epidemiology at PLOS ONE, and Editorial Board Member of BMC Public Health, a leading open-access journal dedicated to global public health research.

 

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. She is a Special Advisor at the World Hearing Forum (WHF) and a Consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO), where she actively contributes to informing global hearing health strategies, policies and plans. 

 

Delivering world-class research, she has been awarded several honours and awards and has developed an international reputation. In 2020, she received the International Society of Audiology (ISA) Scholarship Award for her groundbreaking work in the early identification of individuals with hearing loss in primary care, and its potential to enhance opportunities for healthy and inclusive ageing.

 

Dr Tsimpida's role as the Primary Investigator of the 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'. This work revealed that the increasing prevalence of hearing loss may but could be linked to social and lifestyle changes. She introduced the concept of 'lifestyle-related hearing loss,' and developed the , which illustrates the factors that impact individuals earlier in life and, if modified, could reduce hearing loss in older age.  

 

Her work pioneered , 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. Following extensive engagement with policymakers and the with Place Directors in Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care System (ICS), which highlighted the need to integrate hearing care into health strategies, one of the key recommendations from this analysis—later included in the —was the monitoring of hearing loss data, recognising its links to depression, dementia, falls, and frailty. 

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