Dear friends We will be sending you our 2013 Annual Report soon. In the meantime, we would like to bring to your attention the first ever oral health newsletter from the World Federation of Public Health Associations. It was sent out today to all...

Knowledge and attitude of Indian Dentists towards dental indemnity insurance Demand for quality healthcare at affordable costs is the natural outcome of this development. Despite all of the knowledge and understanding, cases of dental treatment...

PATIENT SAFETY ON-LINE SURVEY AMONG INDIAN DENTISTS Patient safety is a fundamental principle of health care, in fact patient safety, medical error and adverse event reporting is becoming a major issue in health care systems across the world. This...

We have developed a new collaboration with the International Federation of Dental Hygienists. The Chair of the GCDFund Professor Raman Bedi met in Dili, Timor Leste, with Mrs Robyn Watson, President-Elect of the International Federation of Dental...

This year we ran the Richard Law Award for dental students willing to enter an essay competition as a part of the Indian Strategy Project. There were three topics to choose from: 1. Approaches for the Prevention of Oral Cancer in India; 2. Oral...

We have established a partnership with One-2-One to realise our goal of building dental capacity in Timor Leste. Led by Dr Fernando Jong, this partnership will be a three-year legacy project incorporating a school oral health programme and improving...

The submission deadline for the GCDFund Award for Best Project on the Dental Student Electives e-Depository website ( www.gcdfund.org ) has now been extended to Wednesday 13th November. The winner will be notified on Friday 15th November and the...

Recently, Professor Raman Bedi, Smitha Kakde and Mahesh Verma published an article in the 'International Dental Journal'. Entitled 'Oral health inequalities: a call for action to improve oral health in India', the article is an analysis of the...

KAPD and GCDFund Symposium: Nairobi, Summer 2013 As part of the African Network Legacy Project, GCDFund and the Kenya Association of Paediatric Dentists (KAPD) collaborated in organizing the first symposium on ‘Paediatric Oral Healthcare in East...

The GCDFund ambassador for Smiles and Hope Tanzania, Prue Preston, has been named Colgate’s Unsung Hero 2012 for her work with orphans and street children in Mwanza, Tanzania. This award comes with a donation of £5000 for Prue’s chosen charitable...