Research to assist in oral health workforce planning
OHWRC is engaged in a number of research projects aimed to assess the current oral health workforce and the delivery of oral health services in the US, and to assist federal and state policy makers in future oral health workforce planning.
Current research projects include:
- COVID-19 Impact on Dental Service Delivery, Financing, Regulation and Education Systems: an Environmental Scan
- Impacts of State Policies on Provision of Teledentistry Services by Safety Net Providers
- Assessing the Impact of State Guidelines on Dentists’ Opioid Prescribing Patterns in New York and Oregon
- Study of Dental Public Health (DPH) Training and Career Retention
- Identifying Strategies to Improve Oral Health Workforce Resilience
- Implications of COVID-19 on Safety Net Oral Health Services
- A Scoping Review of Tribal Oral Health Services
- Facilitators and Barriers of Dental Education for Tribal Oral Health Services
- COVID-19 Pandemic Fallout: A Profile of Burnout, Engagement, and Resilience in Dental Care Providers
- Changes in the Oral Health Workforce and Delivery of Oral Health Care in the Safety Net
- Assessing the Oral Health Workforce Providing Adult Medicaid Dental Services in California and New York
- Understanding Discrimination Experiences of Minority Students in Dental Education
- Perspectives of Women of Childbearing Age About Their Oral Health Status and Access Barriers