Dental public health and primary care research group
The dental public health and primary care research group is based within the Health Sciences research theme at Manchester.
Staff
| Name | Job title | Email address |
|---|---|---|
| Martin Tickle* | Professor of Dental Public Health and Primary Care | martin.tickle@manchester.ac.uk |
| Iain Pretty* | Professor of Public Health Dentistry | iain.pretty@manchester.ac.uk |
| Michaela Goodwin | Research Associate | michaela.goodwin@manchester.ac.uk |
| Joanna Goldthorpe | Research Associate | joanna.goldthorpe@manchester.ac.uk |
| Nicola Boothman | Trials Manager - Dental Health Unit | nicola.boothman@manchester.ac.uk |
| Janet Clarkson* | Honorary Professor | janet.clarkson@manchester.ac.uk |
| Anne-Marie Glenny* | Professor of Health Sciences Research/Director of Research | a.glenny@manchester.ac.uk |
| Harry Hill | Research Associate in Health Economics | harry.hill@manchester.ac.uk |
| Richard Hogan | Research Assistant, PhD Student | richard.hogan@manchester.ac.uk |
| Yin-Ling Lin* | yin-ling.lin@manchester.ac.uk | |
| Richard Macey | Research Assistant | richard.macey@manchester.ac.uk |
| Laura Mackay | Administrative Assistant - Dental Health Unit | laura.mackay@manchester.ac.uk |
| Michael McGrady | Trainer and Clinical Scorer | michael.mcgrady@manchester.ac.uk |
| Kate McKenzie | Research Assistant/PhD Student | kate.mckenzie@manchester.ac.uk |
| Lucy O'Malley* | Lecturer in Oral Health Research | lucy.omalley@manchester.ac.uk |
| Wendy Thompson | NIHR Clinical Lecturer | wendy.thompson-2@manchester.ac.uk |
| Tanya Walsh* | Senior Lecturer Biostatistics | tanya.walsh@manchester.ac.uk |
| Helen Worthington* | Director of Evidence for Practice | helen.worthington@manchester.ac.uk |
* Postgraduate research supervisors
About our research
It is important that dental policy and the commissioning of dental public health programmers and dental services are informed by high quality research.
We use a variety of study designs (large pragmatic trials, epidemiological observational studies, qualitative studies, quasi-randomised studies and interrupted time series studies and health economic modelling) to investigate fundamental research questions such as:
- Should we fill primary teeth?
- Does dental screening benefit the population?
- Does prevention in practice work?
- Is scale and polish worthwhile?
- What level of service should state funded dental services provide?
Current research interests include:
- public health prevention interventions and their effects on population health and health inequalities
- chronic oro-facial pain
- workforce planning and use of skill mix
- demand management
- behaviour change
- eReferral for oral surgery
- access and utilisation of dental healthcare
- quality of dental care.
NHS data
Some of our research uses data on NHS dental treatments received by individual patients. This data comes from the NHS Business Services Authority (NHS BSA), which organises payments to NHS dentists. Before the NHS BSA provides this data to us, they remove all identifying information, meaning that the data is anonymised.
It is possible to opt-out of your NHS data being used for research in this way by contacting NHS Digital. For more information, please see the privacy notice (PDF, 126KB) for this study.
Current postgraduate research students
- Emma Hall-Scullin
- Richard Macey
- Kate McKenzie