New Deputy Chief Dental Officer (England) appointed
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- Published: Wednesday, 30 December 2020 10:35
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Rebecca Harris, Professor of Dental Public Health at Liverpool University has been appointed as the new Deputy Chief Dental Officer (England). Rebecca will join Jason Wong and the CDO team at the end of January, when the long serving Eric Rooney will retire. In her receent newsletter the CDO, Sara Hurley, thanked Eric for his dedication to the profession.
Rebecca qualified in Dentistry from Bristol University, and then moved between clinical roles (including Clinical Director of Salaried Services in South Glamorgan) and academia (Kings College London), before joining the University of Liverpool as Professor and Honorary Consultant in Dental Public Health. Her research is in oral health inequalities and health systems, especially in relation to real world settings of primary dental care and vulnerable communities, both in the UK and globally.
Her NIHR grants have included studies into the factors which influence responses to dental contracts (NIHR HSDR project 09/1801/1055) and delivery of preventive care in dental practice (NIHR HSDR project 13/33/45 – the PREFER trial and ethnography on presenting information on risk to patients).
In 2020 Rebecca was awarded the International Association for Dental Research 2020 Distinguished Scientist Award for Behavioural, Epidemiologic and Health Services Research. Rebecca’s professional roles have included 2017-2018 President of the British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry (BASCD) which is the UK’s professional association for the science, philosophy and practice of promoting the oral health of populations and groups in society; and Oral Health topic expert on NICE Public Health Advisory Committees 2014-2017.
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