ASEAN Chief Dental Officers Meeting
Moving Forward and BeyondCollaboration
28 August 2013
Three Questions
Do we need to collaborate? If yes, what areas will be
covered How can we run our
collaboration?
Goals of the Collaboration
Formal or Informal?› Formal body could obtain political support
from ASEAN and Member-States What are your priorities? It varies per
country. The first priority is promotion of Oral Health in the Region
The Need for Collaboration
A Resounding Yes from Everyone There is great need and aspiration to
strengthen social and political acceptance of Oral Health as a bio-medical discipline at the regional and local level
Increasing the voice of Oral Health in WHO policies
Collaboration provides the chance for support and greater space for learning
Holistic Approach: Enhancing Quality of Life
Areas for Collaboration Information Development and Sharing
› Develop a website for the collaboration Come up with a distinct Name. (Dr. Prae will supervise this)› Maximise the existing roadmap and programmes
developed by the CDO and the ASEAN Joint Coordinating Committee for Dental Practitioners
› Resource hub (i.e. Dropbox—free and accessible to all)- Dr. Sunsanee will take care of this.
› Include information on conferences/symposia/trainings in ASEAN
› Include narratives on practices› Write and submit articles on Oral Health Promotion
Areas for Collaboration
Enhancing Competencies› Training Programmes for Dental Personnel› Continuing Education for dental personnel› Research on oral health programmes,
activities› Collaboration for multi-centre research› Standard Research methodologies
(collaboration with Academics)› Regional Exchange programmes: Consultacies,
Personnel and Students› Developing a Regional Standandized
curriculum for Community-based Oral Health Work
Areas for Collaboration
Enhancing Competencies (Cont’d)› Knowledge sharing on Dental Safety Goals› Clinical Practice Guidelines› Universal Health Care Systems in different
countries› Licensing Programme (Sharing of
Practices)
Areas for Collaboration
Strengthening and Empowering the Community› Sharing of Best Practices in terms of
Promotion of Oral Health Programmes and Services (Technology, Advocacy, Information Systems, Education)
› Build and Nurture sense of Ownership amongst community members
Areas for Collaboration
Monitoring and Feedback mechanism› Amongst New Graduates and Personnel:
Strengthen ways to enhance performance level through an evaluation process
› Amongst National Agencies and Community Centers: Periodic evaluation of implementation
› Amongst Regional Coalition Members: Report-back system
Ways to Collaborate
Website will be developed Initial Membership: ASEAN Members Only Conduct Annual Meetings, Workshops, Conferences (to be
proposed to Ministry of Health)– it has to be related to ASEAN (suggestion to put ASEAN ++) Identify themes for discussion in the following years: Community
Programmes Skype Meeting is more feasible as informal contact
platform. Process of Counterpart: technical and financial Intra-collaboration: Within ASEAN (as a whole or bilaterally) Inter-collaboration: With other Asian countries Supra-collaboration: With other Networks, academics, WHO
and private sector
Good Luck