Advancing the Global Oral Health Agenda
Department and Center Events
About the Event
The Inaugural Global Oral Health Symposium gathers experts from medicine, public health, dentistry, economics and political science representing academic centers from Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University, University of Maryland, New York University, Seoul National University as well as the World Health Organization and NGOs Solidarity Dental Foundation and Zero Noma Initiative to increase awareness about oral health, the importance of integrating the mouth to whole body health and systemic disease, global inequities regarding access to care, current WHO recommendations, as well as recognition of noma, the "face of poverty", as a neglected tropical disease.
The symposium of talks, featuring speakers with experience from Canada, the United States, Korea, Ecuador, Peru, India, Nigeria, Kenya and Tanzania, is aimed for a public health audience as well as for physicians, dentists, and all healthcare workers, in-person as well as via Zoom.
The goal is not only to increase awareness to oral-medical integration from a public heath perspective, but also to build and encourage collaborations in advocacy, policy, clinical care and research with intent to produce lecture recordings, advocacy briefs, calls to action, and recommendations for future. The Hopkins community does not have an affiliated school of dental medicine and would benefit from improved understanding to the importance of oral-medical integration as well as the benefits to diverse perspectives and experience for multi-disciplinary collaborations.
This all-day symposium is organized with support from the student groups Academy Health and the Oral Health Network and partnering with the Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research as well as the Center for Global Health.
Speakers
Josh Sharfstein, MD
Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement
Director, Bloomberg American Health Initiative
Professor of the Practice in Health Policy and Management
Host, Public Health On Call
Brittany Seymour, DDS, MPH
Global Health Discipline Director
Associate Professor of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology
Harvard University School of Dental Medicine
Eleanor Fleming, PhD, DDS, MPH
Assistant Dean for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Dental Public Health
University of Maryland School of Dentistry in Baltimore
Eugenio Beltrán-Aguilar, DMD, MPH, MS, DrPH
Co-Director, WHO Collaborating Center at NYU
Professor, Department of Epidemiology
New York University
Temple University Kornberg School of Dentistry
Dr. Ife Adetula, BCHD, EEGH
Founder
Zero Noma Initiative, Nigeria
Priyanka Gudsoorkar, BDS, MBA, MPH
Co-Founder & Director of Development
Solidarity Dental Foundation
Kevin Frick, PhD
Professor
Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Hyewon Lee, DrPH, DMD
Assistant Professor
Seoul National University School of Dentistry & Dental Research Institute
Chair, World Federation of Public Health Associations Oral Health Workgroup
Sujay A. Mehta, DMD
Moderator
MPH Candidate JHU BSPH
Executive boards - BSPH Academy Health and Oral Health Network
Co-chair, Scientific Planning Committee, Oral Health section, American Public Health Association
Agenda
- 8 am Light breakfast
- 8:30 am A Brief History from 1840 Baltimore - Dr. Sujay Mehta, Bloomberg School of Public Health
- 8:45 am Welcome Address: Oral Health As Public Health - Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
- 9:00 am Advancing the Global Non-Communicable Diseases Agenda Through an Expanded and Integrated Oral Health Workforce - Dr. Brittany Seymour, Associate Professor Harvard University
- 9:45 am Global Oral Health & the Political Determinants of Health: Oral Health Justice Requires Political Solutions - Dr. Eleanor Fleming, Assistant Dean University of Maryland Baltimore
- 10:30 to 11:00 Coffee Break
- 11:00 am WHO Calls to Action - Dr. Eugenio Beltra´n-Aguilar, Co-Director WHO Collaborating Center at NYU
- 11:30 am Journey Towards Zero Noma - Dr. Ife Adetula, Founder Zero Noma Initiative, Nigeria
- 12:30 to 1:30 Lunch
- 1:30 pm Mobilizing Oral Healthcare to the Underserved in Ecuador - Dr. Priyanka Gudsoorkar, Director of a Development Solidarity Dental Foundation
- 2:15 pm Challenges of Measuring Global Economic Impact - Lessons from Eye Health - Dr. Kevin Frick, Professor Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School, School of Medicine, Bloomberg School of Public Health
- 3:00 Maternal and Child Oral Health as Global Public Health Agenda - Dr. Hyewon Lee, Assistant Professor Seoul National University
Registration
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