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It is with deep sadness that we inform you of the passing of Dr Anthony R. Volpe. Tony was a cherished Trustee of the Global Child Dental Fund since 2008 and worked tirelessly to support our work around the world. Tony was also renowned for his work...

FREE LIVE WEBINAR Thursday 29 October, 2020 | 15:00 – 15:30 PM (GMT) Every child should have good oral health as a basic human right. Join us to learn more about: The global challenge of child oral health Why is oral health a human right? In...

Richard Law Research Award 2020 for Postgraduate Dental Students in India In honour of the late Richard Law, an accountant who tragically died from oral cancer, the Global Child Dental Fund (UK) is offering awards of Rs 50,000 (in total) to...

We are proud to launch the Portuguese (Brazil) version of the Global Child Dental Fund Maternal and Oral Health booklet, which is the result of a successful partnership between the Global Child Dental Fund, the Brazilian Society of Paediatrics and...

Begin your journey of Advanced Dental Leadership! Sign up is completely FREE for our ADL Dental Leadership and our ADL for Health Professionals programmes during 2020. For more information click here

GCDFund consultant Dr Valerie Wordley and Chairman Prof Raman Bedi have just published an editorial in the British Medical Journal Leader raising awareness, to the medical and wider healthcare profession, of how our Senior Dental Leadership Programme...

Richard Law Research Awards 2019 In honour of the late Richard Law, the Global Child Dental Fund (UK) offered awards for the sixth consecutive year to dental students in India. Post-graduate dental students from all over India who took up the...

Our SDL alumnus and dear friend of GCDFund, Dr Mahesh Verma, has been appointed as Vice Chancellor of Indraprastha University. He was previously director of the Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences (MAIDS) and has been recognised nationally for...

On 17-19 June 2019 Chief Dental Officers from East & Central Africa (Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, DR Congo, Sudan) convened in Addis Ababa to strategize how to end the barbaric practice of Infant Oral Mutilation (IOM) within 10 years....

Global Dental Ambassadors Return to Zambia Global Child Dental Fund-Senior Dental Leaders alumni, Dr. Nalumino Sayela (SDL-7) and Dr. David Okuji (SDL-10) , collaborated on a second academic exchange program between the Global Dental Ambassadors, the...

Applications are now open. Each year we award one established dental professional with the esteemed Tony Volpe Award, offering them a place on the prestigious Senior Dental Leaders Programme (SDL). SDL 14 will be held in March 2020 in London, UK. The...

In March, Professor Raman Bedi (Chairman of GCDFund) attended the mid-year meeting of the International Association of Dental Students (IADS) in Strasbourg, France. He spoke at the Panel Discussion "Developing and Training the New Generation of...

Dr Dorjan Hysi receives the Promising Leadership Award 2019 The Center for Oral Health partners with GCDFund in offering this award to a qualified oral health leader. Young professionals from various disciplines (public health, dentistry, social work...

Tony Volpe Award 2019 The Tony Volpe Award is given annually to a dental professional, offering them a place on our prestigious Senior Dental Leaders Programme (SDL). The award covers all tuition, travel and accommodation costs. This year’s award was...

The recently held Senior Dental Leaders conference, now in its 13th year, has once again been a resounding success. The six-day conference organised by the Global Child Dental Fund, King’s College London, and this year’s host, the Harvard School of...

In honour of the late Richard Law, an accountant who tragically died from oral cancer, the Global Child Dental Fund offers awards of Rs 50,000 (in total) to postgraduate dental students in India willing to submit a research proposal and take up the...

Success for Dr Ashwin Jawdekar and "Team YMT” at the Global Summit of International Academy of Paediatric Dentistry, Bangkok 2018 Among more than 110 presentations, Dr Ashwin Jawdekar, Professor and Head of the Department of Pediatric Dentistry at...

In October, Dr Jack Dillenberg accepted an award from The Dr. Edward B. Shils Entrepreneurial Fund, Inc. at an event in Philadelphia, USA. Dean Emeritus of Arizona School of Dentistry & Oral Health - A.T. Still University, Dr Dillenberg was honored...

Senior Dental Leaders alumni hold successful workshop in Melbourne Global Child Dental Fund Senior Dental Leaders alumni Dr Rachel Martin, and Dr Irene Adyatmaka held a very successful workshop on 1 October at La Trobe University, Melbourne,...

In June, Professor Raman Bedi (Chairman of GCDFund ) and Professor Arthur Kemoli (Chairman of the Paediatric Dentistry Association of East Africa) visited schools in rural parts of Kenya to examine children for IOM, meeting teachers and local elders....

Richard Law Research Award 2018 for Postgraduate Dental Students in India In honour of the late Richard Law, an accountant who tragically died from oral cancer, the Global Child Dental Fund (UK) is offering awards of Rs 50,000 (in total) to...

In a recent article in Dentistry magazine, Valerie Wordley, GCDFund consultant, spoke to Dr Khin Maung, chief dental officer for Myanmar, about the oral health problems Myanmar faces. I sat down with Dr Khin Maung at the 12th Senior Dental Leaders...

Dear Colleague, We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting submissions for the Tony Volpe Award for our Senior Dental Leaders (SDL) programme in Boston, USA, March 2019. The award covers all tuition, travel and accommodation costs for SDL...

Infant oral mutilation (IOM) is a dangerous and sometimes fatal traditional dental practice undertaken in children that can have very serious health consequences. This is undertaken by many indigenous African tribes, mainly from East and central...