Oral health: a question of policy?

In episode 4 of Oral Health Matters, Richard Watt, Professor of Dental Public Health at University College London is in conversation with Dr Lisa Jamieson from the University of Adelaide, Australia and Professor David Conway from the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Lisa has an international reputation for her work on indigenous oral health research and health inequalities and David is an expert in dental public health, oral cancer research and leadership of Childsmile programme in Scotland. Together, they’re discussing how we can best develop and nurture the next generation of oral health researchers.  

• Read a full transcript here 

Further reading  

• Childsmile – child oral health improvement programme for Scotland https://www.childsmile.nhs.scot/ AND https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/medicine/dental/research/childoralhealthchildsmile/  
• Arnstein’s Ladder of Citizen Participation https://www.citizenshandbook.org/arnsteinsladder.html  
• Article by Bain et al (2013) Global Health Mentorship: Challenges and Opportunities for Equitable Partnerships https://gh.bmj.com/content/bmjgh/8/11/e013751.full.pdf  

Credits  

  

Presenter: Professor Richard Watt, University College London  

Editor and producer: Chris Garrington, Research Podcasts  

Artwork and audiograms: Krissie Brighty-Glover and Lauren White, Research Podcasts  

Music: The Documentary, Mapamusic  

What is Oral Health Matters?

Welcome to Oral Health Matters, a brand new podcast from the Dental Public Health Group at University College London and presented by eminent dental public health expert Professor Richard Watt.

In this first series of our podcast, we'll be in conversation with researchers, policymakers and activists from around the world who are working to better understand the causes and consequences of oral diseases and to identify possible policy solutions to improve oral health.

So if you're a policy maker, clinician researcher, or member of a community who wants to know more about why oral health matters and what interventions and policies might make a difference, please follow us wherever you find your podcasts. Oral Health Matters is produced by the Dental Public Health Group at University College London, with support from Research Podcasts and funding from the UK National Institute of Health and Social Care Research.