Oral and systemic health

We’re bringing together researchers from a diverse range of disciplines to better understand the connection between oral health and general health including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, dementia, arthritis and adverse pregnancy outcomes.

Working in multidisciplinary networks to identify common mechanistic pathways and causal relationships, we’ll provide expertise that will be accessible to all University researchers for the improvement of health. 

Evidence shows that oral health significantly interacts with general health. There’s a two-way relationship between oral and other illnesses, which is not yet understood. We’re addressing these current knowledge gaps through clinical and population health research and education. 

Our research has the potential to ease the global burden of general health in all areas of society by preventing disease.

It will form the basis of better disease prevention strategies and patient management – all underpinned by health education programs.

• Securing philanthropic funding for a collaborative research project in 2020
• Delivering Oral Health education events for Westmead clinicians

• Dr Christina Adler (Project Node Leader)
• Professor Adrian Bauman
• Professor Jennie Brand-Miller
• Professor David Brieger
• Professor Wah Cheung
• Professor Clara Chow
• Professor Peter Cistulli
• Professor Victoria Cogger
• Professor Philip de Chazal
• Dr Eduardo Delmare
• Professor Victoria Flood
• Dr Alice Gibson
• Professor Tim Gill
• Professor Paul Glare
• Dr Kylie Gwynne
• Dr Andrew Harman
• Professor Andrew Holmes
• Professor David James
• Professor Tim Lambert
• Professor David Le Couteur
• Professor Kirsten McCaffery
• Dr Gregory Murray
• Associate Professor Vasi Naganathan
• Professor Ralph Nanan
• Professor Ky-Anh Nguyen
• Dr Kieron Rooney
• Dr Michael Skilton
• Professor Heiko Spallek
• Professor Greg Sutherland
• Professor Stephen Twigg
• Professor Anthony Weiss
• Professor Andrew Wilson
• Dr Paul Witting