Chair: Nigel Pitts; Co-Chair: Ilze Maldupa

Agenda for 2024:

• Briefly review achievements of Caries Epidemiology and Prevention SIG
• Build on previous evidence into policy-related activities
• Expand our Partnerships
• Maintain alignment with the WHO Global Strategy and Action Plan on Oral Health
• Prioritise our areas of focus
• Define what sort of Outputs would be most useful to new SIG members

Chair: Gitana Rederiene; Co-chair: Orsolya Nemeth

Agenda for 2024:

• To systematically review all literature on projects that aim to improve the oral health of socio-economically deprived children.
• To identify successful projects for improving the oral health of socio-economically deprived children.
• To involve projects that seek to improve the oral health of all children and those aimed specifically at those socio-economically deprived.
• To publish the results and promote the successful projects.
• To plan commencing and writing a protocol for the SIG theme

Chairs: Colwyn Jones and Katrin Hertrampf; Co-chair: Niall McGoldrick

Agenda for 2024:

• Welcome from the chair. [ Colwyn Jones | 5 min ]
• Apologies for absence. [ 5 min ]
• Delegates self-introduction from the floor. [ All | 5 min ]
• The meeting report from 2023 in RIGA. [ Colwyn Jones | 5 min ]
• Matters arising. [ Colwyn Jones | 10 min ]
• Oral cancer in Crete/Greece. [ Professor Eleana Stoufi | 20 min ]
• Oral cancer in Cyprus. [ Dr Chrystala Charalambous | 20 min ]
• Borderless Alliance of Early Cancer Researchers in Head and Neck Cancer. [ Niall McGoldrick | 20 min ]
• Early cancer detection in primary care. [ Katrin Hertrampf | 20 min ]
• Any other business. [ Colwyn Jones | 5 min ]
• The next meeting of the oral cancer prevention SIWG; 2025, Rome. [ 5 min ]

Chair: Jennifer Gallagher; Co-chair: Rakhee Patel

Agenda for 2024:

• Review evidence on European oral health workforce capacity and capability
• Review Educational Curricula development for dentistry
• Review specialty training in Dental Public Health within Europe
• Explore priorities for WHO Oral Health Action Plan in Europe and identify next steps for the SIG

Chair: George Tsakos

Agenda for 2024:

• Welcome and self-introductions. [ All ]
• Report from the SIWG 2023 meeting (Riga). [ George Tsakos ]
• EADPH Quality of Life webinars in last year: Report and Reflections [ All ]
• Critical review of the SIWG on QoL: 10 years for what outcome? [ All ]
• Where do we go next? Recommendations [ All ]
• AOB

Chair: Ana Vukovic

Agenda for 2024:

• Welcome and participants’ introduction
• Background on the purpose of the workshop: to recognize the importance of availability, accessibility to health and education, to information and communication, in enabling persons with additional support needs to fully enjoy all human rights.
• The aim is to provide aspects of different challenges that are possible in everyday clinical practice through opinions of different healthcare professionals such as physicians, dentists, and special education therapists.
• Introducing International Association for Disability and Oral Health Toolbox for measuring attitudes and intended behaviors to the participants.
• Role play
• Emphasizing the importance of assessing and improving healthcare workforce attitudes, beliefs and intended behaviors toward people with additional support needs is as important as professional training having in mind the impact on accessibility and availability of health care.
• Future plans

Chair: Vasileios Margaritis

Agenda for 2024:

• Finalizing ETW primary and secondary prevention program to be adopted by schools, public and private practice dentists
• Aim to publish this program in peer-reviewed journals (this would be the 3rd paper produced by this Working Group!)
• More clinical focus to prevent and treat ETW.
• Discussion on WHO Oral Health Action Plan -focusing on Financial models, UHC, and Oral health care systems. Transition to the new SIG of “Oral health care within universal health coverage and general health care”- Co-chair position announcement.
• Open to ideas, suggestions, and initiatives.