Tackling Health Inequalities Through Community Approaches: Focus on Oral Health
We invite you to a discussion on global health inequalities with a focus on oral health and on developing community-based approaches to public health research and interventions.
Date: Thursday, October 17, 2024
Time: 4:00 - 5:30 PM IST
Venue: Room 004, School of Arts and Sciences, Central Campus
Moderator
Mirai Chatterjee
Director of SEWA’s Social Security team
Chairperson of the SEWA Cooperative Federation
Chairperson of the global informal workers and policy-makers network, WIEGO
Speakers
Dr Carol Guarnizo-Herreño
Associate Professor, Dental School, National University of Colombia
Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL
Co-chair, Lancet Commission on Oral Health and CORE project
Research Interests: Socioeconomic inequalities in oral health and the influence of macro-level factors (related to the economic and political context) on population oral health and patterns of inequalities.
Dr Richard Watt
Professor and Honorary Consultant, Dental Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL
Director, World Health Organisation, Collaborating Centre on Oral Health Inequalities and Public Health
Director, Research, Development and Innovation, Central North-West London NHS Foundation Trust
NIHR Senior Investigator
Research Interests: Focus on social and commercial determinants of health inequalities and development and evaluation of community-based health improvement interventions.
Dr Starry John Dcruz
Public Health Dentist
Program Coordinator, SEWA
Kaumudi Joshipura
Dean, Bagchi School of Public Health
Director, Sahyog Centre for Promoting Health
Ahmedabad University
Research Interests: Global Health, Planetary Health, Climate Change, Cardiometabolic and other Non-Communicable Disease, Modifiable Lifestyle factors, COVID-19, Epidemiology, Nutrition, Oral Health, Health Promotion, Pregnancy outcomes, COVID-19
