Dr Nigel Carter OBE has been Chief Govt of the Oral Well being Basis for greater than 20 years.

A earlier chairman and long-term trustee of the charity, Dr Nigel Carter OBE has a eager curiosity in public well being and expertise in well being promotion. 

Dr Carter has been a dentist for greater than 4 a long time and began his profession as a basic dental practitioner with a combined NHS and personal observe primarily based in Birmingham.

The Oral Well being Basis’s function as co-ordinator of quite a few nationwide campaigns, together with Mouth Most cancers Motion Month, includes Dr Carter working with well being departments of all 4 UK nations in addition to representatives of main well being, most cancers, dental and medical organisations on the highest degree. 

As fast previous chair of the Royal Society for Public Well being, Dr Carter is concerned in liaison and co-operation between the main public well being our bodies, School of Public Well being and Register of Public Well being Specialists and has broad pursuits in public well being and the social determinants of heath.

Dr Carter is an skilled broadcaster and media spokesman giving a whole lot of interviews per yr on tv, radio and to the print media.

In 2012, Dr Carter was honoured with an OBE for Providers to Dentistry and Dental Well being within the Queen’s Jubilee honours.

Dr Carter is the fast previous chairman of the Platform for Higher Oral Well being in Europe, a foyer group primarily based in Brussels liaising with European parliamentarians and the European Fee. The group, of which the Oral Well being Basis is a member, goals to enhance oral well being throughout Europe and scale back inequalities.

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ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor of Dental Surgical procedure College of Birmingham 1975

Licentiate in Dental Surgical procedure of Royal Faculty of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1975

 

WORK HISTORY
1975-1997	Normal Dental Practitioner with combined NHS and Personal Follow.
1983 – 2004	Principal and Managing Director India Home Coaching and Recruitment Ltd delivering coaching in dental nursing, veterinary nursing, dental expertise underneath Youth Coaching organisations throughout the West and East Midlands.
1997 thus far	Chief Govt Oral Well being Basis (beforehand British Dental Well being Basis).

 

COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS
1978 – 1997	Council Member British Dental Well being Basis
1980 – 1997	Trustee Royal Society for the Promotion of Well being
1987 – 1989	Chairman British Dental Well being Basis
1983 – 1985	Member Sandwell Native Dental Committee
1993 – 1997	Member South Birmingham District Dental Advisory Committee
1987 – 1995	Affiliate member Normal Dental Council Oral Well being Committee
1994	Member Oral Well being Schooling Co-ordinating Physique
1990 – 1995	Chairman Birmingham Well being and Care Compact
1984 – 1992	Committee member British Dental Migraine examine group
1986 – 1988	Secretary British Dental Migraine Research Group
2001- 2008	Editorial Board Member NHS Direct On-line
2003 – 2007	Trustee Royal Society for the Promotion of Well being
2004 – 2007	Treasurer Royal Society for the Promotion of Well being
2007 – 2019	Trustee and Treasurer of the Royal Society for Public Heath
2004 – 2007	Member Division of Well being Dental Smoking Cessation Group
2005 – 2010	Member School of Normal Dental Follow at Royal Faculty of Surgeons DCP Advisory Group
2013 – date	Member of the Platform for Higher Oral Well being in Europe
2017 – 2019	Chair Platform for Higher Oral Well being in Europe
2019 – 2022	Chair Royal Society of Public Well being