Richard Law Research Awards 2019 In honour of the late Richard Law, the Global Child Dental Fund (UK) offered awards for the sixth consecutive year to dental students in India. Post-graduate dental students from all over India who took up the...

Our SDL alumnus and dear friend of GCDFund, Dr Mahesh Verma, has been appointed as Vice Chancellor of Indraprastha University. He was previously director of the Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences (MAIDS) and has been recognised nationally for...

On 17-19 June 2019 Chief Dental Officers from East & Central Africa (Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, DR Congo, Sudan) convened in Addis Ababa to strategize how to end the barbaric practice of Infant Oral Mutilation (IOM) within 10 years....

Global Dental Ambassadors Return to Zambia Global Child Dental Fund-Senior Dental Leaders alumni, Dr. Nalumino Sayela (SDL-7) and Dr. David Okuji (SDL-10) , collaborated on a second academic exchange program between the Global Dental Ambassadors, the...

Applications are now open. Each year we award one established dental professional with the esteemed Tony Volpe Award, offering them a place on the prestigious Senior Dental Leaders Programme (SDL). SDL 14 will be held in March 2020 in London, UK. The...

In March, Professor Raman Bedi (Chairman of GCDFund) attended the mid-year meeting of the International Association of Dental Students (IADS) in Strasbourg, France. He spoke at the Panel Discussion "Developing and Training the New Generation of...

Dr Dorjan Hysi receives the Promising Leadership Award 2019 The Center for Oral Health partners with GCDFund in offering this award to a qualified oral health leader. Young professionals from various disciplines (public health, dentistry, social work...

Tony Volpe Award 2019 The Tony Volpe Award is given annually to a dental professional, offering them a place on our prestigious Senior Dental Leaders Programme (SDL). The award covers all tuition, travel and accommodation costs. This year’s award was...

The recently held Senior Dental Leaders conference, now in its 13th year, has once again been a resounding success. The six-day conference organised by the Global Child Dental Fund, King’s College London, and this year’s host, the Harvard School of...

In honour of the late Richard Law, an accountant who tragically died from oral cancer, the Global Child Dental Fund offers awards of Rs 50,000 (in total) to postgraduate dental students in India willing to submit a research proposal and take up the...