Overview
There is a shortage of academia and researchers in the field of dental public health resulting in the scarcity of new researches and body of knowledge to mitigate the population’s dental problems and to promote their oral health. Therefore, the International Ph.D. Program in Dental Public Health (Ph.D. (Dental Public Health)) is an effort to bridge this gap in the field. The program aims at producing highly qualified graduates who are capable of doing researches in or to create a new body of knowledge to alleviate the population’s dental health problems and to foster long-term health for Thais and Asians as a whole.
The program is open to holders of bachelor’s degrees in all fields of dentistry or degrees in biological sciences; and master’s degree holders of all fields of dentistry or M.Sc. degree in biological sciences. The duration of the program is 4 years for bachelor’s degree holders who have to take theory courses in their first year, and 3 years for master’s degree holders. For the latter, students will focus on their dissertation and seminars on important topics in dental public health namely:
- Epidemiology
- Behavior and dental health education
- Oral health promotion and social determinants
- Prevention of oral diseases in dental public health
- Current concepts of dental caries and fluoride
- Health care system
- Health economics and inequality
