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Australian Research Centre for
Population Oral Health
School of Dentistry
The University of Adelaide
SA 5005 AUSTRALIA

Email: arcpoh@adelaide.edu.au
Phone: +61 8 8313 5438
+61 8 8313 3291
+61 8 8313 4045
Facsimile: +61 8 8313 3070
+61 8 8313 4858

Governance

In formal terms ARCPOH is organisationally a component of The University of Adelaide. Its Director, like the heads of departments, other centres and academic units in the University, is responsible through the Dean of the School of Dentistry and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences to the Vice-Chancellor and Council.

The three component units of ARCPOH are also responsible to their respective stakeholders. Through the Director of DPERU there is a responsibility to Colgate Oral Care, and through the Co-Directors of DSRU there is a responsibility to the Director and Board of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

The National Oral Health Promotion Clearinghouse is located within ARCPOH. The Clearinghouse has a separate Advisory Committee. It has a responsibility to state/territory dental authorities and the Monitoring Group for Australia’s National Oral Health Plan which reports to the Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council.

ARCPOH is intended to play an important national role and the University is therefore guided in its management by an Expert Advisory Committee that has the best possible appreciation of the state of population oral health research and major public policy issues that might be informed by that research.

Expert Advisory Committee

Membership

Chair: Nominee of the Vice-Chancellor, The University of Adelaide	Professor Johann de Vries or Professor Julie Owens
Director of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) or nominee	Ms Teresa Dickinson
Director of ARCPOH	Professor Kaye Roberts-Thomson
Deputy Director of ARCPOH	Associate Professor David Brennan
Co-Directors of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Dental Statistics and Research Unit (AIHW DSRU)	Dr Jane Harford and Dr Liana Luzzi
Nominee of the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing	Ms Veronica Hancock or nominee
Nominee of the SA Department of Health	Mr David Banham
Nominee of the Australian Dental Association (ADA)	Dr Karin Alexander
Nominee of Colgate Oral Care	Dr Susan Cartwright
Representative of the State/Territory Dental Directors	Dr Martin Dooland
Consumer representative: Nominee of Australian Council of Social Services (ACOSS)	Dr Tessa Boyd-Caine
Experts in the field	Professor Tony Harris Professor Clive Wright Professor Murray Thomson Professor John Lynch

Functions

To advise The University of Adelaide, the Director of ARCPOH and, where appropriate, collaborating organisations on:

the important research questions in population oral health that could beneficially be addressed by ARCPOH, and the relative priority of those issues
the formulation and regular updating of an appropriate strategic plan for the research program of ARCPOH
operational planning for the research program of ARCPOH that encompasses collaboration and cooperation between relevant organisations, and the avenues through which resources can be found to support the program
the means by which the outcomes of the Centre’s research can be disseminated to inform public policy and professional practice
the development and enhancement of the Centre's postgraduate research training activities,within the research program.