De Wet Swanepoel

De Wet Swanepoel is a distinguished South African professor of audiology at the University of Pretoria, known for pioneering digital health and teleaudiology innovations to improve hearing care access in underserved communities globally. He directs the WHO Collaborating Centre for the Prevention of Deafness and Hearing Loss and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Audiology. As lead inventor and co-founder of hearX Group, he has developed award-winning smartphone-based hearing test solutions used in over 25 countries. His work focuses on leveraging information and communication technologies to decentralize ear and hearing healthcare, particularly for low-income populations. He has published over 280 peer-reviewed articles and six textbooks, with over 12,000 citations.