Global Oral Health Program
Addressing oral health issues close to home and around the globe
Contact
Benjamin W. Chaffee, DDS, MPH, PhD
Director of Global Oral Health
Division of Oral Epidemiology
and Dental Public Health
Center to Address Disparities
in Children's Oral Health
benjamin.chaffee@ucsf.edu
415.476.9226
The Global Oral Health Program develops, coordinates and supports research, educational and service initiatives within the School of Dentistry and beyond.
The program sponsors the annual Global Oral Health Symposium, which draws world-renowned speakers, and coordinates the Student Research Travel Awards, which allow students to develop faculty-mentored research projects in public health, epidemiology and basic sciences relevant to global oral health.
2019 Symposium
The ninth annual UCSF School of Dentistry Global Oral Health Symposium will take place 1-5 p.m. May 8, at the UCSF Parnassus campus. This year’s symposium theme is "Improving Global Health Action and Education: From Theory to Practice." The UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies is the symposium's co-sponsor.
The speaker list includes:
Brittany Seymour, Harvard University
Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology
Patcharawan Srisilapanan, Nation University, Thailand
Center of Excellence in Dental Public Health
Bethy Turton
University of Melbourne, Australia
University of Puthisastra, Cambodia