Inaugural Professorial Lecture: Professor Jonathan Broadbent: POSTPONED

Inaugural Professorial Lecture: Professor Jonathan Broadbent
Department of Oral Sciences

Getting long-itudinal in the tooth: caries, trajectories, and disparities

In this talk Jonathan will take a longitudinal approach to describing his research activities over the past 20 years. He will discuss his research trajectory – where it has come from in order to reach this point. In particular he will discuss key findings from trajectory modelling of oral health data from the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study and the implications of these findings for dentistry, health policy, and future research.

Jonathan is passionate about a better and fairer oral health future in Aotearoa New Zealand. He is a dentist with 20 years’ clinical and research experience. His academic interests are in dental epidemiology and public health research and he now leads the dental component of the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study. He works with many collaborators and has published numerous papers in his own discipline and beyond. In particular, he has led internationally in applying trajectory modelling techniques in dental longitudinal research, as well as work on access to dental care and community water fluoridation. He is a current executive member of the Oral Health Clinical Advisory Network and president of the New Zealand Section of the International Association for Dental Research. Jonathan is active in journal editing roles with the New Zealand Dental Journal, the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and BMC Oral Health.

This lecture will be followed with light refreshments, tea, coffee & juice.

This event will be live-streamed, from 5:25pm on Tuesday 12 July 2022, on the above web address.