Global Child Dental Fund The story so far global child dental fund. A Public Private Partnership with Colgate Palmolive

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1 Global Child Dental Fund The story so far global child dental fund A Public Private Partnership with Colgate Palmolive

2 1 The Global Child Dental Fund The Global Child Dental Fund is a UK based charity whose mission is to improve the dental health of disadvantaged children worldwide. We do this by: Establishing national taskforces Developing leadership initiatives Growing local capability for effective caries management and prevention Developing Public Private Partnerships with leading global dental companies We believe every child can and should have a healthy smile because oral health is crucial for general health and well-being Our history Professor Raman Bedi, Chairman The Global Child Dental Fund works to build on the achievements of the Global Child Dental Health Taskforce (GCDHT). GCDHT was established in January 2006 in response to the Declaration on Child Oral Health which was signed by 40 senior dental advisors and chief dental officers along with representatives from the World Health Organization. The declaration called for a global taskforce to raise the profile of the worldwide crisis of dental decay among disadvantaged children Initial funding was received from the UK government. The charity was subsequently established in 2008 and now drives forward all the activities of the GCDHT. Signing of the Declaration on Child Oral Health by World Dental Development Committee (FDI), Raman Bedi for Chief Dental Officers and Poul Erik Petersen for WHO.

3 2 Our Activities Establishing taskforces We develop and support national taskforces to champion the dental needs of disadvantaged children, to create and implement demonstration projects and to work collaboratively to coordinate countrywide activities. Developing Leadership initiatives Since 2007 over 60 senior academics, policy makers and chief dental officers have attended our annual senior dental leaders programme. From 2010 SDL programmes are run in conjunction with Harvard University School of Dental Medicine. We recently launched global dental leaders, an online resource and learning environment enabling today s young dentists to become tomorrow's dental leaders. Growing local capability We build capability by teaching and promoting effective caries management and prevention techniques. This spreads skills (both administrative and clinical), allowing communities to meet their own challenges and sustain preventative cultures. Creating Public Private Partnerships By creating PPPs the charity gives international dental companies and local taskforces opportunities to work together towards the shared goal of zero cavities in children. A successful PPP has been established with our founding sponsor, Colgate Palmolive. Henry Schein provide ongoing support for our leadership programmes. Support for the Global Child Dental Health Taskforce is Colgate Palmolives 200th anniversary gift to children worldwide. Ian Cook, CEO, Colgate Palmolive Colgate Palmolive CEO Ian Cook rings the bell to start trading at the NYSE and announces Colgate s support for the GCDHT project. Ian Cook, John Thain (CEO, NYSE) addressing the boards of Colgate and the NYSE at Colgate s 200th anniversary celebration breakfast.

4 3 Establishing Taskforces Overview GCDHT_ China Taskforce GCDF is committed to solving the problems of child dental health through sustainable development built on local leadership provided by local people determining agendas to deliver localised services. Local taskforces determine their own programmes, raise their own funds and deliver in their local area. Local taskforces ensure that oral health prevention is embedded in local policy agendas. This is the best way to promote evidence-based oral health messages. The taskforces are made up of senior figures from dentistry, including government representatives, dental professionals, NGOs and academic leaders. To date, 25 million has been raised in cash and materials to support the taskforces. In 2009 over one million children benefited from the activities of the China taskforce. These included the nearly 35,000 children who visited one of 7 Colgate Bright Smiles, Bright Futures (BSBF) Centres to receive oral health education. Delivering oral health messages to children on this scale lays the foundation for improvements in oral health by establishing good habits. Oral health messages have also been spread through teacher training programmes for junior school teachers in Yunnan and Ningxia provinces using specially produced training materials. The global Public Private Partnership established with Colgate-Palmolive, has, to date, benefited over 20 million children through programmes led by the taskforces established in the following countries: China Australia New Zealand Philippines Thailand Cambodia India USA Mexico Venezuela Colombia Brazil South Africa. What GCDF provides: a common framework without which even the most successful national taskforces would be isolated and less effective. a common focus for their activities so the taskforces can work efficiently towards the shared transnational goal of eradicating dental cavities in children. the global health leadership needed to integrate multi-level national action within a genuine intra-national global health programme. 1.1 million children in Neimeng, Guangxi, Shannxi, Yunnan and Ningxia participated in programmes co-ordinated by the China Taskforce.

5 4 GCDHT_ Brazil Taskforce 1.3 million Brazilian children benefited from programmes organised by the taskforce in ,000 children received specially produced educational products. Over 50,000 took part in education activities run in conjunction with over 100 universities. 35,000 disadvantaged children were helped by dental programmes in São Paulo State. Outreach programmes were run by 90 volunteer dental students in cooperation with Cruzeiro do Sul, São Paulo and Federal University of Curitiba, Paraná. There are now BSBF Centres established in 3 dental schools. The Beacon Centre was opened at the University of São Paulo in June 2009 by the GCDHT_Brazil taskforce. l. to r. Professor Guedes-Pinto with Professor Raman Bedi and Dr Roberto Vianna at the opening of the Beacon Centre.

6 5 Growing capability Growing capability is a major strategic aim of GCDF because it allows local programmes to deliver sustainable change. Without capability building, programmes remain dependent on outside providers to deliver treatment. By growing local capability, communities can escape from this dependency. Local leaders can assume full responsibility for planning and delivering services and, with appropriate leadership skills, can more efficiently achieve their goals than when negotiating with outside providers who may have their own goals and preconceptions. This approach spreads administrative and clinical skills, enabling communities to solve their own problems. Growing capability is also an integral part of GCDF s strategy for delivering long-term improvements through cultural change. Dental health is often under-prioritised. A lack of local capability is both a result and a cause of this. It is a result of low levels of investment, but it is also a signal that dental health is not considered a priority. Growing capability affirms the importance of dental health, secures its place within local healthcare cultures, and plays an important role in consolidating the effectiveness of evidence-based education programmes. Cambodia Dr Robert Yee, University of Singapore, is a world renowned expert on the management of dental caries in low income countries. He has worked in Nepal for a number of years and field-tested the use of Silver Diamine Fluoride as a cost-effective method of arresting dental decay in children. At the request of the GCDHT_Cambodia taskforce, the charity funded the visit of Robert Yee to Phnom Penh and a training day for dentists, NGOs and medical staff on the use of SDF. The Cambodian charity One-2-One facilitated the event.

7 6 South Africa In May 2008, a dental capacity building workshop was held to develop strategic oral health plans for the South African provinces. The workshop was hosted by Dr Johan Smit, Chief Dental Officer of South Africa, Professor Raman Bedi and the University of the Western Cape. GCDHT_South Africa taskforce members working with leading academics and provincial oral health leads on plans to improve the dental health of children in South Africa. The support of the South African Ministry of Health was hugely influential. The request of the Director-General to each province to support the project was crucial and quickly resulted in extra funding from the provinces for oral health services. It was a significant step forward in dental health provision for South African children, especially the poor black children. Professor Raman Bedi It was exciting to see civil servants, professors of dental public health and provincial oral health managers working together to develop plans that will invariably help underserved children throughout the country. Everyone worked with great team spirit: we have captured a synergy that will make a significant difference to the dental agenda of this country. We are also encouraged by the $55,000 commitment from the WHO to buy fissure sealants to seal first and second permanent molars on needy children at specific schools. Dr Johan Smit, Chief Dental Officer of South Africa Building dental public health capacity is crucial and has been a long term commitment of our University. We are grateful to Milners, Colgate and the Global Child Dental Fund for co-sponsoring this meeting. Professor Hanif Moola, Dean of the Dental School University of the Western Cape Professor Hanif Moola thanks Professor Raman Bedi for his help.

8 7 Leadership initiatives Senior Dental Leaders Programmes GCDF recognises that local approaches will only work if there are local leaders capable of delivering change. Sustainable change cannot be achieved through simple injections of resources. We already have the clinical knowledge and skills to defeat dental disease: we now need leaders able to implement the strategies that will put this knowledge to work. The Senior Dental Leaders programme (SDL), which has now held four annual conferences in London and the USA, is designed to create these leaders. SDL allows senior dental leaders to develop their leadership skills and learn how to use them effectively to improve children s oral health. Our vision is to train and mentor 400 senior dental leaders over the next ten years. The SDL programme includes participants from a range of countries including China, India, Tanzania, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Mexico, South Africa, Brazil, USA and the UK. Attendees of the SDL-4 programme, 2010 conference. Harvard University has a long and illustrious history in training individuals from all walks of life. Though our collaboration with the GCDF's Senior Dental Leaders Programmes, we can upscale our work in the dental field. I am excited about the possibilities this collaboration can bring and the improvements we can expect in both the oral health of our global society and the way dental services are delivered. Professor Bruce Donoff Dean, Harvard School of Dental Medicine

9 8 Global Dental Leaders The latest strand of our leadership support activities is the new Global Dental Leaders website. It targets younger dental professionals, providing them with resources to develop their leadership potential and networks to facilitate activities fulfilling social responsibilities. The Global Dental Leaders website supports a three-fold mission of personal development, voluntary activity, and connecting to other students, academics and practitioners. Education for the future Change can be promoted through effective evidence-based education programmes, but these have to be part of longterm sustainable programmes. We need to be thinking not just about those who are children now, but about the oral health of children in 10 and 20 years time. GDL meets the challenges of delivering sustainable change by nurturing the leaders of tomorrow who, over a long period of time, will work to change local cultures and eradicate the fundamental causes of preventable dental disease. As the Chairman and CEO of Henry Schein, Inc., a global Fortune 500 company, I have seen the great strength of diverse perspectives and resources all focused on achieving a single goal. This is the potential power that our combined efforts can have on achieving the important mission of the Global Child Dental Fund. Through the Senior Dental Leaders programme, Henry Schein is committed to working with representatives from all segments of the global dental community to help foster a new generation of dental leaders who can ensure that we continue to improve oral health care for underserved children around the world. Stanley M. Bergman, Chairman and CEO Henry Schein, Inc.

10 9 What next? Our vision for the future is centred on our commitment to empowering local communities to overcome their own oral health challenges. In order to achieve our goals we will provide the leadership and resources that our taskforces need to become transformative regional hubs acting as catalysts for change. We will help taskforces identify and develop local funding sources. We will support them as they devise and implement their own programmes (encouraging the involvement of senior clinicians), and we will enable taskforces to share examples of best practice. Our ambition is for every taskforce to become a dynamic and innovative regional hub supervising its own satellite programmes. We will concentrate on producing and making available toolkits and other resources to help them achieve this goal and will continue to provide overall guidance to the network. All of our activities will continue to promote the key goal of growing local capability. The need for sustainability is hardwired into our planning for the future, and we will remain committed to the principle of empowering local communities to overcome their own oral health challenges. Leadership development The Senior Dental Leaders programme will continue with annual programmes in conjunction with King s College London and Harvard School of Dental Medicine. Planning for SDL-5 (to be held in spring 2011), is at an advanced stage. Over 10 years, we aim to identify, train and mentor 400 dental leaders who will in turn drive forward the dental profession in the first half of the 21st century. Global Dental Leaders will be rolled out during the second half of Through this programme, we will extend our professional engagement to include emerging leaders within dentistry and provide them with support and resources to make the transition to effective senior leadership. Growing GDL will be an important part of our activities over the coming years. It will help us build a broad movement for sustainable change within the global oral health community.

11 10 I would like to support the work of the Global Child Dental Fund You can donate online at or fill out and post the form below with your donation. Thank you. Please accept my donation of Please make cheques payable to: The Global Child Dental Fund and post to: The Global Child Dental Fund Rooms , Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Please send me updates about the work of The Global Child Dental Fund. Name Underpinning the work of the Global Child Dental Fund is a group of committed and passionate people. Patron: Archbishop Desmond Tutu Chairman: Professor Raman Bedi Trustees: Dr Marion Bergman Dr Tony Volpe Mr Richard Price Address Tel Postcode global child dental fund

12 Thank you to our founding and principal sponsor Colgate Palmolive Sponsors of our Dental Leadership Programmes Our academic partners In partnership with the ACFF If you would like to know more about how you can help us improve the dental health of children worldwide, please contact us: Visit: Global Child Dental Fund Rooms , Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Registered charity no: (England & Wales) global child dental fund