Dr. Dympna Kavanagh is currently the Chief Dental Officer in the Department of Health, Ireland. She has worked in the Health Service Executive Ireland in the areas of quality and risk, general management and within the Dental Service at the national level. She is the immediate Past President of the Council of European Chief Dental Officers – a Board Member of the Platform for Better Oral Health in Europe. She undertook a Diploma, Masters, and Specialist/Consultancy Training in Dental Public Health at King’s College London and then completed her PhD in UCC.

Dr. Nigel Carter OBE has been Chief Executive of the Oral Health Foundation – a Board Member of the Platform – for more than 25 years. A previous chairman and long-term trustee of the charity, Dr Nigel Carter OBE has a keen interest in public health and experience in health promotion. The Oral Health Foundation’s role as coordinator of numerous national campaigns, including Mouth Cancer Action Month, involves Dr Carter working with health departments of all four UK countries as well as representatives of major health, cancer, dental and medical organisations at the highest level. As immediate past chair of the Royal Society for Public Health, Dr Carter is involved in liaison and cooperation between the major public health bodies, the Faculty of Public Health and Register of Public Health Specialists and has broad interests in public health and the social determinants of health. In 2012, Dr Carter was honoured with an OBE for Services to Dentistry and Dental Health in the Queen’s Jubilee honours.