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Professor Loc Do serves as Professor of Dental Public Health and Director of Research at the School of Dentistry, University of Queensland, leading the Population Oral Health at UQ (POHUQ) research group. He is a dentist holding BDS, MScDent, and PhD degrees in Oral Epidemiology from the University of Adelaide, completed in 2008. His career includes NHMRC Sidney Sax Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, University of Adelaide (2009-2013), followed by NHMRC Career Development Fellowships Level 1 (2014-2017) and Level 2 (2018-2021). Loc joined UQ in January 2021. He was lead investigator for the National Child Oral Health Study (2012-2014) and National Study of Adult Oral Health (2017-2019), contributing to national oral health surveillance.

Loc Do's research specializations include population oral health, oral epidemiology, dental public health, socioeconomic inequalities in oral health, risk-benefit analyses of fluoride use, water fluoridation effectiveness and safety, early childhood caries prevention, and oral health service utilization. His scholarship has attracted continuous competitive funding from NHMRC and MRFF since 2009, with current roles as Chief Investigator A on grants addressing child oral health disparities, oral health for people with intellectual disabilities, and aged care oral health inequities. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles, including in The Lancet, PLOS Medicine, Journal of Dental Research, and JAMA Paediatrics, with an h-index of 40 and over 6,000 citations. Key publications encompass "Water fluoridation as a population strategy for reducing oral health inequalities" (International Journal of Epidemiology, 2025), "Tracking the debate: geo-temporal sentiment analysis of community water fluoridation on ‘X’" (Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 2026), and "Effect of early life income and sugars intake on child oral health" (Caries Research, 2026). Awards include the 2025 IADR John Greenspan Global Oral Health Research Award, 2022 IADR H. Trendley Dean Award, and 2023 IADR Abrey Sheiham Award for distinguished research in dental public health. Loc Do supervises multiple PhD students and influences oral health policy through evidence-based research.