AIDPH hosted its annual colloquium "Reimagining Dental Health Through Resiliency and Community" on August 4 & 5, 2020. This colloquium was focused on strengthening our dental public community through imagining and exploring novel ideas and solutions to improve oral health equity in America. Event speakers included experts from diverse fields … [Read more...]
2020 AIDPH Summer Colloquium Spotlight – Understanding The Insecurity Epidemic
2020 AIDPH Summer Colloquium Spotlight – Merging Health Sectors to Address Structural Gaps
AIDPH hosted its annual colloquium "Reimagining Dental Health Through Resiliency and Community" on August 4 & 5, 2020. This colloquium was focused on strengthening our dental public community through imagining and exploring novel ideas and solutions to improve oral health equity in America. Event speakers included experts from diverse fields … [Read more...]
AIDPH Statement of Response
In October 2020, AIDPH released a statement encouraging our community to vote in accordance with our collective principles of oral health equity, antiracism, and a strong adherence to improved public health infrastructure. What happened this week at our nation’s Capitol was a culmination of unfettered, historic racism and a brazen manifestation of … [Read more...]
2020 AIDPH Summer Colloquium Spotlight – Cross Cutting Inequity In Oral Health
AIDPH hosted its annual colloquium "Reimagining Dental Health Through Resiliency and Community" on August 4 & 5, 2020. This colloquium was focused on strengthening our dental public community through imagining and exploring novel ideas and solutions to improve oral health equity in America. Event speakers included experts from diverse fields … [Read more...]
Call to Action: Antiracism in Oral Health
This summer, in response to increased focus on racial equity and addressing racism as a public health crisis, AIDPH created daily calls to action for the oral health community. We've summarized our call to action below. In solidarity with advancing racial justice and supporting the call to action from the American Public Health Association to … [Read more...]
Special Issue on Precision Public Health
Special Issue on Precision Public Health To increase the visibility of scientific contributions presented during the 2018 AIDPH Colloquium, The American Institute of Dental Public Health sponsored a Special Issue in the Journal of Public Health Dentistry. Because of our commitment to scientific dissemination and promotion of dental … [Read more...]
Modeling the Impact of COVID-19 on U.S. Dental Spending – June 2020 Update from the Health Policy Institute
The Health Policy Institute (HPI) has released a model predicting future dental spending in 2020 and 2021. The Modeling the Impact of COVID-19 on U.S. Dental Spending — June 2020 Update discusses some key points for the dental community: Dental practice and patient volume are steadily increasing following the COVID-19 pandemic but are still … [Read more...]
2020 AIDPH Colloquium Spotlight— Panel Discussion: Serving Individuals with Disabilities
AIDPH hosted its annual colloquium "Confronting Inequity Through Oral Health Policy" on January 14 and 15, 2020. This year's colloquium featured expert speakers from diverse backgrounds to lead the discussion around inequities in public policy and how clinicians, policy makers and leaders can affect change. In this panel, Dennis Borel, … [Read more...]