CDE: [Integrative Global Oral Health Lecture Series] ft. Lois K. Cohen, PhD

Virtually presented via Zoom Webinar

NOTE: The online classroom for Continuing Dental Education is migrating to a new platform (https://cde.dental.upenn.edu). If you have not already registered, you will be required to register as a new user via PennPath in order to register for this lecture. For alumni, faculty, students and staff who have a PennKey account, you will still need to create a PennPath account.

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Time: 5:30-7:00 pm EST; This virtual lecture will begin promptly at 5:30 pm via Zoom Webinar.
Registration: FREE; Registration is still required.
CE Credits: 1.5 lecture credits
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A Conversation with Lois Cohen

Course Description

Join Dean Mark Wolff and Michael Glick, Executive Director of the Center for Integrative Global Oral Health, in a conversation with Lois K. Cohen. Dr. Cohen is an accomplished scientist, administrator, educator and advocate for health promotion and disease prevention. Consultant and Paul G. Rogers Ambassador for Global Health Research, she is formerly Associate Director for International Health, National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research at the National Institutes of Health.

Learning Objectives

Participants will gain an understanding of:

• The global public health importance of oral diseases and the stark inequalities that exist both between and within countries.
• The limitations of implementing solely clinical preventive interventions in promoting population oral health and in tackling oral health inequalities.
• The importance of implementing a range of upstream, midstream and downstream interventions to promote population oral health and reduce oral health inequalities.

Speaker

Consultant and Paul G. Rogers Ambassador for Global Health Research, Dr. Lois Cohen is formerly Associate Director for International Health, National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research at the National Institutes of Health. Her Ph.D. in sociology was earned at Purdue University (1963) where she also received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters (1989), the first sociologist ever to have been awarded that honor from Purdue. During her more than 56-year career having had Visiting Faculty appointments at both Howard University and Harvard University, she spent most of those years with the U.S. Government both as a researcher and a health science administrator. She edited and authored four volumes on the social sciences and dentistry and publishing more than 150 professional journal articles. Purported to be the architect of the behavioral and socio-dental sciences, she co-directed two major multinational collaborative studies with the World Health Organization on nationally developed oral health care delivery systems.

Dr. Cohen has served or currently serves on various organizational boards including: Foundation Against HIV/AIDS in Africa, the Journal of the American Dental Association, the Friends of the Organization of Safety, Aespsis and Prevention, the Edward B. Shils Entrepreneurial Fund, The Alliance for Oral Health across Borders, the Caplin Family Charities, the Regulatory Affairs Society’s Global Advisory Council, Humble Smile Foundation, and the Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research. She regularly serves as expert consultant to the World Health Organization in Geneva, its regional offices in the Americas (Pan American Health Organization) and the African region as well as various universities and associations focusing on global health through oral health.