Photo courtesy of Dr. Daniel Fink
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition
I was contacted last Fall by Yishane Lee, the editor of Hearing Health Magazine, the well-regarded quarterly publication of Hearing Health Foundation, to see if I would write 500 words for the Winter 2023 issue about the topic of advocacy. Of course I said, “Yes.” I think it’s important to share the information I have acquired over eight years of being a noise activist. I also sent Yishane a PowerPoint presentation I had given to the 2021 e-Conference of the International Commission on Biological Effects of Noise titled, “Science isn’t enough: the need for outreach, advocacy, and activism.”
Yishane was kind enough to ask me to write a guest editorial based on that presentation, which is now posted online. Amazing how 500 words can grow into 2,000! As the title states, science is just the start.
Thanks to Yishane both for inviting me to write something for the magazine, and for her excellent editing. As a recent documentary shows, a great editor makes a good writer great.
I am actually quite shy, and don’t like to call attention to myself. I prefer to let my actions and writings speak for themselves. But I agreed to write about myself for Hearing Health Magazine because I hope what I wrote will inspire others to join us at The Quiet Coalition and our parent organization, Quiet Communities, Inc., in working together to make the world quieter.
A quieter world will be a better and healthier world for all.
