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July 2010

Dr. Umma Habiba, course participant in 2009, gives an update of her work in Bangladesh.

' We have started a "Model Project for an Improvement of Oral health Care in the Rural Areas of Bangladesh" supported by JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency). We have designed a 3 years longitudinal study: 4000 students between 8 -10 years from 12 primary schools have been selected. (more)
The aim of this project is to spread the preventive knowledge to all the poor and under privileged children of our country. Because, a prosperous future of Bangladesh largely depends on a healthy young generation'.

Do you want to participate in the 2011 NUFFIC short course?
Soon the brochure and application form can be downloaded via this website.

June 2010

The NUFFIC short course "New Concepts in Education and Public Oral Care" 2010 ended.

Dr. Yede Dennis, a former DGOH course participant, received the Service Above Self Award from the Rotary Club Westfield, Great Brittain. Dr. Dennis is a retired dentist, and was an Associate Professor at the University of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark, USA for most of her career. The SAS Award is only bestowed on 150 individuals throughout the world each year. It is the most prestigious award Rotary International gives. After the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the entire professional class fled for their lives and never came back. Dr. Dennis went to Rwanda to help rebuild the local health care infrastructure. She spent a full year at the Kigali Health Institute, training 60 students to be dental health care auxiliaries, and in this way made a permanent improvement in the health care of Rwanda.

Dr Kiran Awasthi, course participant in 2009, gives an update of his work in Nepal:

"After the course, I was eager to apply what I had learnt. Though I had been giving ART training in the past, now I was more equipped and qualified. Not surprisingly the training was much easier. Till now I have given an ART training to 70 health workers and 40 dental graduate students doing more than 1000 ART treatments during the course of the teaching.
I also learnt a lot about dental public health and started focusing more on prevention and promotion. The effective training of more than 150 teachers all over Nepal has resulted into 20 different government schools throughout the country running a daily brushing program".

for more: www.hdsn.org.np (Health and Development Society Nepal)

January 2010
The DGOH has been awarded 5 NUFFIC fellowships for the course "New Concepts in Education and Public Oral Care".

16 Dec 2009 - One of our PhD candidates, Dr Bella Monse, is the CEO of the Philippine Fit for School Inc. This programme received a major international recognition for its efforts to tackle the high burden of preventable diseases in children. On the occasion of the United Nations international day for South-South Cooperation, organized in Washington DC, USA, by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), Fit for School was awarded as one of three projects worldwide for its innovative approach to improve child health using the existing structure of the school system.
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7 December 2009
Thesis defense of Asli Topaloglu Ak at the Radboud University Nijmegen.
The title of her thesis is "Management of Dental Caries in Primary Teeth through Minimal Intervention Approaches".

October 2009
Our tailor made training program on Problem Solving Restorative Dentistry for Vietnamese dentists was recently completed and evaluated. The main aim was reached: After the training sessions, trained staff members were capable of and inclined to finding new evidence based knowledge. They have shown their ability to implement their new skills and knowledge in teaching practises (problem based learning), in treatment planning and in the clinic. Read more.

September 2009
At the September 2009 FDI Annual World Dental Congress, Dr. Jo Frencken, Head of the Department of Global Oral Health, College of Dental Sciences, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, was elected member of the World Dental Development and Health Promotion Committee.

September 2009
Are you interested in receiving a copy of "Introducing and Adopting the Atraumatic Restorative treatment (ART) Approach in Tanzania"? Then email us.

24 June 2009
The 2009 course Participants are full of new plans to improve the oral health situation in their country after finishing our short course.

18 June 2009
Dr Bella Monse wins P&G Price with her public health project; Fit for Schools.

8 June 2009
Promotion Emil Kikwilu on "Implementation of the ART approach in Tanzania".
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12 September 2008
The WHO Collaborating Centre Nijmegen becomes Department of Global Oral Health. The WHOCC has accomplished the official tasks agreed with WHO Geneva, and will continue its oral health activities as Department of Global Oral Health of the College of Dental Science of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre (RUN MC).
Our department acquired a lot of experience regarding oral health in underserved populations over the last decades and will continue collaborating with WHO on occasion.