November 23, 2015
The sixth annual UCSF School of Dentistry Global Oral Health Symposium will take place Thursday, April 7, 2016 at the UCSF Parnassus campus. This year’s theme will be Oral Health Inequalities: From Measurement to Action.
Confirmed speakers include:
- Michelle Henshaw, DDS, MPH; Associate Dean, Global and Population Health
Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine
http://www.bu.edu/dental/profile/michelle-henshaw/
- Stuart Gansky, MS, DrPH; Director, Center to Address Disparities in Children’s Oral Health
UCSF School of Dentistry
http://profiles.ucsf.edu/stuart.gansky
- Richard Watt, BDS, MSc; Head of Department, Dental Public Health
University College London
https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=RGWAT37
- Gloria Mejia, DDS, MPH, PhD; Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
East Carolina University
http://www.ecu.edu/cs-dhs/dental/employee.cfm?id=916
The symposium is being held in April to coincide with two exciting San Francisco events:
- Consortium of Universities for Global Health 2016 Annual Conference
https://cugh.org/events/2016-annual-cugh-global-health-conference
- UCSF Alumni Weekend 2016
http://www.ucsfalumni.org/s/1420/index_1col.aspx?sid=1420&gid=1&pgid=1673
Registration will begin this winter.
UCSF School of Dentistry Global Oral Health Program:
http://dentistry.ucsf.edu/science-and-research/global-oral-health-program