新的项目将致力于改变牙科教育和改善牙科治疗

普林斯顿，N.J.，2001年11月7日 - 罗伯特伍德约翰逊基金会本周宣布了新的六年努力，以增加对低收入和医学弱势群体的牙科照顾的进入。通过1900万美元的管道，职业和实践提供资金：基于社区的牙科教育倡议，最多可以通过鼓励社区教育计划以及招募更为不足的少数群体来增加牙科护理的计划，以提高牙科护理的计划，以增加服务的牙科护理。和低收入学生进入牙科。1500万美元将可供选定的学校提供​​，400万美元将用于支持整体计划。“While the nation’s overall dental health has improved greatly in the last half-century, disadvantaged populations – low-income, medically disabled, and geographically isolated – continue to suffer from poor oral health and inadequate access to care,” said Judith Stavisky, senior program officer at The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. “Pipeline, Profession and Practice focuses on the dental schools’ ability to reduce those gaps in care through community-based education programs that expands patient care to underserved populations.” Dental schools funded through the Pipeline program will forge partnerships that enable their students, residents, and faculty to work with private practitioners, health agencies, hospitals, schools, clinics, and other community organizations to provide services to populations with limited access to dental care and poor oral health. Schools also will develop strategies to recruit more low-income students and more African-American, Latino, Native American and other underrepresented minorities into dentistry. The Pipeline, Profession and Practice program office will be based at Columbia University’s School of Dental and Oral Surgery under the direction of Allan Formicola, D.D.S., M.S., at Columbia and Howard Bailit, D.M.D., Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut Health Center and Hartford Hospital. Kim Herbert, MPH, also at Columbia, will serve as the program’s deputy director. Dr. Formicola said, “Dental schools are an important national resource and keenly interested in improving services to underserved populations. This new RWJF initiative will help the dental schools in expanding their programs to help reach those populations". Dr. Bailit added, “The dental profession has long recognized the need to improve access to care for low-income population groups and welcomes the efforts of this project." More detailed information about the application process is available in the Call for Proposals (CFP) issued this week. The CFP is available on the RWJF web site,www.rwjf.org.，以及程序网站，德国北北核菊.edu。

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基于普林斯顿的Robert Wood Johnson Foundation是全国最大的慈善事业，专门用于健康和医疗保健。它集中在四个目标领域的授予：确保所有美国人以合理的成本获得基本的医疗保健;改善慢性健康状况的人的关怀和支持;促进健康的社区和生活方式;并减少由滥用药物，烟草，酒精和非法药物造成的个人，社会和经济损害。

哥伦比亚大学牙科和口腔外科学院（SDO）于1917年成立，位于曼哈顿北部的哥伦比亚长老会医疗中心校园内。除了为博士后候选人提供教育方案外，SDO还对最先进的设施进行了研究，并监督周围社区中居民的广泛社区服务计划 - 联邦指定的医疗和牙科人力短缺区。外展进入社区包括七个地区公立学校，牙科大车和三个非现场社区牙科诊所的牙科计划，为SDO的学生提供丰富的学习环境。