
A key enabler of the WHO’s Oral Health Action Plan will be ensuring oral health professionals curricula are evidence based, contemporaneous and contextually relevant. With a vision, stressing the promotion of oral health as critical to general health and advocacy for universal health coverage, schools and programmes will need to carry out regular reviews of their curriculum and methods of teaching and learning. To assist in this regard the Oral Health Professional Education Regional Associations have come together to empower and enable our members participate at a national level in these critical discussions.
Jointly led by ADEE and our American counterpart ADEA, we strive to ensure broad consensus on approach throughout this work and issued an open invitation to participate to all known global dental education associations and the following were directly invited to contribute: