Is It Low Income or High Income-inequality that Contributes to Poor Oral Health: Evidence from National-Surveys

The speaker undertook dental training at the University of Melbourne, Australia (BDSc, 1982) and completed the Diploma in Dental Public Health at the University of Toronto, Canada (DDPH, 1988). He obtained his PhD in dentistry at the University of Adelaide and subsequently joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he became Associate Professor in the School of Dentistry and Adjunct Clinical Professor in the School of Public Health. In 2002, he was recruited to the University of Adelaide as Professor of the newly-created chair in Oral Epidemiology in the School of Dentistry. In that role, he also was director of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's Dental Statistics and Research Unit. In 2009, he returned to the University of North Carolina to become the inaugural John W. Stamm Distinguished Professor of Dentistry. His principal research interests are in population assessment of oral health related quality of life, epidemiological studies of oral disease and orofacial pain, and public health interventions to prevent oral disease.