Rate My Professor Gail Douglas

Professor Douglas's research interests include dental public health, population oral health, dental epidemiology, caries detection, assessment, prevention and tooth-preserving management, primary dental care research, caries outcome measures, health services research, and epidemiology. She has led major funded projects, including as joint chief investigator for the NIHR HTA FiCTION trial (£2.9 million, 2010-2018) evaluating child caries management strategies, co-applicant for the NIHR HTA INTERVAL trial (£2.6 million, 2011-2017) and NIHR SDO INCENTIVE study (£500,000, 2012-2015), workpackage leader for the EU Horizon 2020 ADVOCATE study (£1.7 million to Leeds, 2015-2019), and co-chief investigator for the HSDR COMMIT study (£296,936, 2021-2023). Key publications are 'Adult Dental Health Survey 2009: common oral health conditions and their impact on the population' (British Dental Journal, 2012), 'CariesCare practice guide: consensus on evidence into practice' (British Dental Journal, 2019), 'ICCMS™ guide for practitioners and educators' (2014), 'Consumption frequency of added sugars and UK children's dental caries' (Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 2018), and 'Factors associated with antibiotic prescribing for adults with acute conditions' (Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 2019). Since 2002, she has coordinated the International Caries Detection and Assessment System (ICDAS) collaboration and contributed to the International Caries Classification and Management System (ICCMS) and Caries Care International. She is Past President of the British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry, Past Chair of the UK Specialty Advisory Committee for Dental Public Health, UK Dental Epidemiology Scientific Lead, Chair of the BASCD Dental Epidemiology Group, and ORCA Advisory Board member. She received the Colgate undergraduate prize in 1993.