Oral Health in Brazil's Universal Health System: 37 Years of Lessons Learned and Opportunities for the Future

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Date and Time

August 12, 2026
12:00PM - 01:00PM EDT

Location

REB Auditorium

Join the Office of Health Policy and Epidemiology (OHPE) for its Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Roosevelt Bastos of the Bauru School of Dentistry at the University of São Paulo (USP) and a visiting scholar at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. A dental public health scholar, Dr. Bastos has expertise in community-based dental education, oral health inequalities, social epidemiology, oral health policy, aging, and the implementation of oral health programs within universal health systems.

In “Oral Health in Brazil's Universal Health System: 37 Years of Lessons Learned and Opportunities for the Future,” Dr. Bastos will explore Brazil’s experience integrating oral health into a universal health system, highlighting lessons learned over nearly four decades and opportunities for the future.