Parent leaders - Jermy Pang

Jermy Pang - Sydney, Australia

Jermy (she/her) is a deaf parent of three children, the youngest of whom is hard of hearing. She works at the intersection of lived/living experience of disability, audiological research, and community support and advocacy for young people who are deaf or hard of hearing.

As a hearing aid user since early childhood, Jermy brings personal insight into her professional role as a research audiologist at the National Acoustic Laboratories. Currently a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland, her doctoral research explores the transition from paediatric to adult hearing healthcare for young people aged 16–35, using youth-led participatory action research approaches to embed lived experience experts throughout the research process.

Jermy also serves as a deaf peer mentor with Hear For You (a program of The Shepherd Centre), supporting young people navigating their own hearing journeys. She is the inaugural Co-Chair of the AusChildhoodDeafness Community Advisory Group, a lived experience board guiding a large NHMRC-funded project to establish a national core outcome set for children who are deaf or hard of hearing in Australia.

Outside of work, Jermy enjoys reading, being creative, foraging, and sharing stories with people from across the globe.
She lives, dreams, work and raise her little family on the unceded lands of the Bidjigal people of the Eora nation.