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Harvard Dental School Partners with Center for Spring 2019 Course
The University of Washington (UW) spring elective course Global Oral Health (DENTEL 520A) has featured interactive lectures, guest speakers, and immersive team-based projects to teach students about global health inequities and the burden of oral disease worldwide.
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Center Awarded NIDCR CFAR Supplement Grant for HIV Study
In May 2019, the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) Office of AIDS Research awarded the University of Washington (UW) Timothy A. DeRouen Center for Global Oral Health an administrative supplement grant to support the continuing research collaboration between the DeRouen Center, the UW Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), and the University of Nairobi (UoN). The supplement will be used to advance the ongoing pilot study Children’s HIV Oral Manifestations Project (CHOMP).
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Oral Health Under the Spotlight at UW Inter-CFAR Sub-Saharan Africa Symposium in Kenya
On February 1st and 2nd 2019, hundreds of researchers attended the Inter-CFAR Sub-Saharan Africa Symposium in Machakos County, Kenya. CFAR (the University of Washington/Fred Hutch Center for AIDS Research) and the National Institutes of Health sponsored the Symposium.
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NIDCR supports UW School of Dentistry’s Global Oral Health Symposium
The National Institute for Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) has awarded the Timothy A. DeRouen Center for Global Oral Health with a grant to support its first symposium in global oral health. The symposium takes place July 31 on the University of Washington campus.
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UW oral health center wins grant for Africa HIV research
The University of Washington’s Timothy A. DeRouen Center for Global Oral Health has received a grant to support research on African children and adolescents exposed to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The center received a 2018 Regional Development Grant from the International Association for Dental Research (IADR), and will share it with IADR’s Nigeria division and East and Southern Africa divisions. The grant will be used to create a sustainable research site to support the AFRICA Project (Advocating For HIV Research In Children and Adolescents).
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Past Events
Integrating oral health into the pediatric HIV care continuum: Baseline data of oral and systemic inflammation
UW Timothy A. DeRouen Center for Global Oral Health + UW Global Health
Awarded by SunStar Preventive Award Kick Off Clinical Trial February 2019
InterACTION Labs: Piloting an interdisciplinary health program
with an informal settlement in the Peruvian Amazon
UW Landscape Architecture + UW Environment + UW Dentistry
Awarded by UW Population Health Initiative 2017
6th International Workshop on Clinical Research Methods in Oral Health
Chiang Rai, Thailand
Funded by Fogarty International Center – NIH – 2016
Calibration on Pediatric Oral Manifestations of HIV in Kenya
University of Nairobi – University of Washington