Oral Health Equity in Action

Saturday, April 15, 2023

8:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Location: Gold Coast

CE: 4.0

Attendee Limit: 30 Registration Fee: $100

Speaker(s)

Ifetayo Johnson, MA

The Oral Health Progress and Equity Network
Eleanor Fleming, PhD, DDS, MPH

UMSOD
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Donald L. Weaver, MD

Senior Advisor, Clinical Workforce
National Association of Community Health Centers
Josefine Oritz Wolfe, PhD, MPH, RDH

CareQuest Institute for Oral Health

Disclosure(s):

Ifetayo Johnson, MA: No financial relationships to disclose

Eleanor Fleming, PhD, DDS, MPH: No financial relationships to disclose

This workshop will prepare participants to be oral health equity advocates. A team of facilitators will share best practices from the areas of workforce diversity, policy advocacy, scientific research, and practice. The workshop will focus on the following questions:

What does oral health equity look and feel like in their work?
How can we disrupt the status quo with antiracist practice?
How can we equip ourselves to be allies and advocates in oral health equity?

The workshop will use a peer-to-peer brainstorming with small group discussions, guided exercises, and reflection. Participants should be prepared for frank discussion. A pre-workshop requirement is the completion of the Race Implicit Association Test (https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/Study?tid=-1) and the first group exercise will be a reflection on those results.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will identify one pressing problem related to oral health equity in their practice, organization, or community that they will address in the next 12 months.
In small, facilitated groups, participants will identify 1 action step as a immediate and short-term action step to support their development as an oral health equity advocacy.
Participants will formulate one SMARTIE goal strategy.