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.
2018 Symposium
The eighth annual UCSF School of Dentistry Global Oral Health Symposium will take place 1-5 p.m. May 7, at the UCSF Parnassus campus. This year’s symposium theme is "Health and Oral Health of Refugee, Migrant, and Immigrant Populations." The UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies will co-sponsor this year’s symposium.
The speaker list includes:
Dr. Lisa Gibbs, University of Melbourne
Jack Brockhoff Child Health and Wellbeing Program
https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/display/person187995
Dr. Fatima Karaki, UCSF
Refugee and Asylum seeker Health Initiative
http://profiles.ucsf.edu/fatima.karaki
Dr. Nancy Burke, UC Merced
Blum Center For Alleviating Poverty And Social Disparities
http://www.ucmerced.edu/content/nancy-burke