Committees

IFDH Committees 2020-2022

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Education

Alexandra Sheppard

Chair

Canada

Alexandra Sheppard

Chair

Education Committee

The Education Committee has a role to source interesting and current educational materials - webinars, documents, etc. and arrange for access through our website for our member associations’ members.

Research

Catherine Waldron

Chair

Ireland

Catherine Waldron

Chair

Research Committee

With sponsorship, we are able to award grants to researchers to assist in the financial cost of doing their research. This is a yearly event and the committee will be required to review all submissions, after the deadline, and choose the recipients of the awards.

Association Resource Center

Carmen Lanoway

Chair

Germany

Carmen Lanoway

Chair

Association Resource Committee

The Association Resource Committee collects resources from our member associations that could benefit our other members. These can be membership brochures, clip art libraries, codes of ethics, missions and visions etc. By creating a resource center members can access documents and tools that may assist them in producing their own version.

World Dental Hygienist Awards

Wendy Stewart

Chair

Canada

Wendy Stewart

Chair

World Dental Hygienists Awards

This committee works with the staff and Sunstar Foundation to award outstanding contributions by Dental Hygienists globally. There are a number of geographic divisions and the finalists from these regions move on to the final judging for the winners to be chosen. The first awards are being presented in Seoul at ISDH 2024.

Membership

Kellie Jaecks

Co-Chair

USA

Kellie Jaecks

Co-Chair

Membership Committee

The Membership Committee, along with our office, review applications from countries that wish to become members of IFDH. There are parameters required such as accredited programs in dental hygiene education and formal recognition as an association. The job of the committee is to review the documents provided and discern that they meet those requirements. The committee also sources non member countries to invite them to consider membership in IFDH.

Membership

Diane Rochford

Co-Chair

Diane Rochford

Co-Chair

Social Media

Nikky Huisman

Chair

Netherlands

Nikky Huisman

Chair

Social Media Committee

This committee is tasked with updating our public media presence. They are responsible for posting regular updates and information on platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Social Responsibility

Wendy Stewart

Chair

Canada

Wendy Stewart

Chair

Social Responsibility Committee

This committee encourages members to create a project that reaches the underserved in our world. It also welcomes current and continuing projects to apply. For the 2022 – 2024 term, we hope to continue our social responsibility outreach and depending on sponsorship we will hold a seminar in Korea in 2024 to celebrate the selected projects.

International Symposium on Dental Hygiene

Jeongran Park

Chair

Korea

International Symposium on Dental Hygiene

Kyunghee Kang

Scientific – Chair

Global Oral Health Summit

Loes Velthoven-Verlinden

Co-Chair

Netherlands

Loes Velthoven-Verlinden

Co-Chair

Oral Health Summit

An Oral Health Summit is being held in the fall of 2023 to address 3 topics; Sustainability in oral health as it is impacted by the oral health industry. The FDI, along with other stakeholders, the IFDH included, has created a document and plan, to address this issue and make recommendations to reduce the carbon footprint of delivering oral health care. The need for more prevention-oriented policies and approaches is evident and our voice, as dental hygienists, is paramount in reaching the goal of a more sustainable future. The World Health Organization has passed a resolution on oral health and its implementation plans will be released in early 2023. We have supported this resolution and plan to be active in its implementation. A leadership seminar for our member associations and their boards will be held in conjunction with this Summit.

Global Oral Health Summit

Wanda Fedora

Co-Chair

Canada

Wanda Fedora

Co-Chair

IFDH Committees 2020-2022

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Education

Research

Association Resource Center

World Dental Hygienist Awards

Membership

Membership

Social Media

Social Responsibility

International Symposium on Dental Hygiene

Jeongran Park

International Symposium on Dental Hygiene

Kyunghee Kang

Global Oral Health Summit

Global Oral Health Summit

2023 IFDH Sponsors