Rate My Professor Mihiri Silva

Silva’s research centres on paediatric oral health, with a focus on early childhood caries, enamel hypomineralisation, and early life risk factors using large longitudinal cohort studies, data analytics, causal inference, and qualitative co-design methods to develop preventive interventions. Her impactful work includes leading the Infant2Child project, funded by a $1.2 million Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) grant in 2021 to improve childhood nutrition and prevent tooth decay, and serving as lead investigator in the $7 million MRFF-funded OMIX3 platform advancing oral health research through interdisciplinary collaboration. She holds the Melbourne Children’s Clinician-Scientist Fellowship and received the International Association of Dental Research (IADR) Paediatric Oral Health Faculty Prize in 2024. Key publications encompass 'Genetic and Early-Life Environmental Influences on Dental Caries: A Population-Based Twin Study' (Pediatrics, 2019), 'Dental caries detection in children using intraoral scans and deep learning' (JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 2025), and 'Comparative performance of common paediatric patient-reported outcome measures (P-PROMs) across health conditions' (Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2026). Silva contributes to the field as an editorial board member of the European Archives of Paediatric Dentistry and through leadership in professional dental organizations.