American Dental Association
Council on Access, Prevention and Interprofessional Relations
211 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago
ILUSA
60611
Biographical Sketch: Mr. Gary Podschun (pá - choon) is manager of Community Outreach and Cultural Competence with the ADA’s Council on Access, Prevention and Interprofessional Relations. He provides leadership, management and direction of the Association’s program and policy planning, development, implementation and evaluation related to oral health disparities, social determinants of oral health, domestic volunteerism and health promotion/disease prevention. These activities include the American Indian/Alaska Native Dental Placement Program, cultural/linguistic competence in oral health care, oral health literacy and other issues of national significance impacting oral health care services. Mr. Podschun is also a member of the Society for Public Health Education.
Dr. Alice Horowitz is a research professor and senior advisor to the Dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Maryland at College Park. She is an ardent health literacy and health communication advocate. She is a former senior scientist with the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, where she led the NIH's work on the Healthy People 2010 Oral Health Focus Area and was co-chair of the NIH Health Literacy Workgroup. She organized the NIDCR's workshop on health literacy and co-authored the proceedings. She also led health literacy improvement efforts for the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at the Department of Health and Human Services.
Dr. Gary Rozier is professor of Health Policy and Administration in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health. He directs the program in dental public health in the Department of Health Policy and Administration and the Dental Public Health Residency Program in the Oral Health Section, NC Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Rozier is a past president of the American Association of Public Health Dentistry and the
American Board of Dental Public Health, and has served as President of the Behavioral Sciences and Health Services Research Group of the International Association for Dental Research. He is a past editor of the Journal of Public Health Dentistry.
Dr. Bonnie Braun is the endowed chair of the Herschel S. Horowitz Center for Health Literacy at the University of Maryland at College Park. She is also an associate professor in the University of Maryland’s School of Public Health's Department of Family Science and has an appointment as a state family policy specialist with the University of Maryland Cooperative Extension, under the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. She is a nationally-recognized researcher in the fields of family health and health policy, and has received numerous awards for her work.