Our values
Embed community engagement and involvement in all aspects of the research to address community needs, views and priorities
Use creative, participatory and innovative community-based approaches in oral health research to challenge professional dominated perspectives
Community focused approaches
Equitable collaboration
Use co-creation to ensure that communities are equal partners in developing interventions/evaluations
Respect, transparency and trust
Respect and transparency are necessary to build trust between interest holders, communities, institutions and collaborators
Equality, diversity and inclusion
Embed equality and diversity in all aspects of the programme to facilitate inclusion of vulnerable and marginalised groups and researchers from all implementing countries in the research process and outputs
Mutual learning
Sharing of expertise across all settings (e.g., South-to-South, South-to-North, North-to-South working) and bidirectional learning through programme components
Capacity building and strengthening
Strengthen and build dental public health research capacity amongst early career researchers through training and research outputs
