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ARCPOH committed to facilitating Australian anti-racist dental health system

a1641914 — April 19 2024

The Indigenous Oral Health Unit has been successful in obtaining nearly $1M in MRFF funding for a project that will bring together Community partners & dental stakeholders from across the country to develop the evidence required for structural changes that foster an anti-racist dental health system.

Australia’s next child oral health survey

a1153385 — December 20 2022

ARCPOH is partnering with the Commonwealth Department of Health, State/Territory Health Departments and Dental Services, Australian Dental Association and Colgate Oral Care to deliver national-level evidence on child oral health and dental service delivery.

Nationwide trial for improving Indigenous youth oral health

a1153385 — December 9 2022

The Indigenous Oral Health Unit, led by Director Joanne Hedges, was successful in obtaining a $3.2M MRFF-funded grant for a nationwide intervention that will work to improve the life journeys of young Indigenous Peoples and reduce the impact of dental caries.

National Dental Telephone Interview Survey (NDTIS) Findings

a1133987 — December 8 2022

Findings from the National Dental Telephone Interview Survey (NDTIS) 2021 are now available with two reports released - Child Oral Health and Dental Visiting in Australia and Adult Oral Health and Access to Dental Care in Australia.

Expanding our research in HPV

a1133987 — December 7 2022

Joanne Hedges and investigator team were successful in securing a 3 million dollar grant from the NHMRC to continue to track oral HPV infection on a large, representative Indigenous adult cohort.

The National Dental Telephone Interview Survey 2021

a1149117 — March 23 2021

The Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health (ARCPOH) will be conducting the 2021 National Dental Telephone Interview Survey (NDTIS 2021) in collaboration with the Commonwealth Department of Health.

One in three Australian adults has untreated tooth decay

a1149117 — December 9 2019

A third of Australian adults aged 15 years or more has untreated tooth decay, results of a national oral health study led by the Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health (ARCPOH) at the University of Adelaide show.

Open wide: national study of oral health begins

a1133987 — February 28 2017

The oral health of the nation will go under scrutiny in a new University of Adelaide study starting today – the first national study of its kind in more than a decade.

NHMRC Early Career Fellowship

a1133987 — November 10 2015

Congratulations to Dr Kostas Kapellas on receiving an Early Career Fellowships commencing in 2016 to 2019 (Grant Title: Sequencing Periodontal Bacteria To Determine The Relationship Between Periodontits, Renal And Vascular Function Among Indigenous Australian Adults With Chronic Kidney Disease).

NHMRC Fellowship

a1098775 — November 10 2015

Congratulations to Associate Professor Lisa Jamieson on receiving a Senior Research Fellow B (SRF B) commencing in 2016 to 2020 (Grant Title: Advancing Aboriginal Australian oral health through intervention studies, longitudinal studies, modelling and surveillance).