Seq #50 Thursday, 10 March 2005
9:00 AM-11:00 AM Baltimore Convention Center 345-346, Symposium - Joint with ADEA
Oral Health Disparities: Educational, Research, and Political Agenda for Improving Oral Health

Sponsored by: Education Research, Oral Health Research
Description: The symposium will provide an overview of current reports concerning oral health disparities in America and efforts being made by policy makers, ADEA, and NIDCR to address these concerns. Additionally, the program will also present specific examples of progress toward reducing oral health disparities through curriculum reform and research initiatives. The symposium will emphasize the importance of the 2000 Surgeon General’s Report on Oral Health in America and demonstrate how collaborative efforts are being directed towards addressing the stated issues and goals for improvement; specifically the DHHS National Call to Action to Promote Oral Health, the strategic partnership between AADR and DHHS to promote the Healthy People 2010 Oral Health Objectives, 2003 ADEA Report on Improving the Oral Health Status of All Americans: Roles and Responsibilities of Academic Dental Institutions, and NIDCR’s funding of five new Centers for Research to Reduce Oral Health Disparities. The session will be important to ADEA and AADR members because of the well documented importance of these issues and the necessity to continue to work collaboratively in academic and research settings, providing policy makers with continued evidence that changes are essential for improving the oral health of all Americans
 
  9:00 AM Welcoming Remarks
  9:05 AM Introductory Remarks
0233  9:10 AM Overview of current reports concerning Oral Health Disparities in America and efforts by policymakers, ADEA, and NIDCR to address these concerns
K.F. SCHRUBBE, Marquette University School of Dentistry, Milwaukee, WI, USA
  9:40 AM How academic units utilize current initiatives to promote awareness of oral health disparities through curricular reform
F. LICARI, University of Illinois - Chicago, USA
  10:10 AM Current research on oral health disparities and its implications for effecting change in dental education and health policy
R. GARCIA, Boston University, MA, USA
  10:40 AM Concluding Remarks

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