Our Mission
'To improve the dental health of disadvantaged children worldwide'
We do this by:
- Establishing national taskforces
- Developing leadership initiatives
- Growing local capability for effective caries management and prevention
- Developing Public Private Partnerships with leading global dental companies
Overall the mission outcome will be to ensure children do not experience dental decay in their lifetime.
Burt Eldestein has summarised this mission for us:
"Our Strategy is first, from a clinical perspective, to recognise that dental caries is reasonably well understood as a disease process, that current preventive and control modalities are potent yet underutilised, and that scientific advances arising from genomics and plaque ecology management are already being well developed.
Second, from a public health and public policy perspective, it is to recognise that each country faces idiosyncratic challenges, yet no country can successfully eliminate tooth decay exclusively through dental treatment.
Third, from a strategic perspective, we must demand strong leadership, clear structure, effective advocacy, robust resources, hight visibility, widespread community engagement and objective accountability.
Taken together, these three components make it self-evident that each country must identify and capitalise on its own unique strengths, identify and address its own unique weaknesses, and recognise its efforts in ways that resonate within its own cultural and governmental agendas"
Our Beliefs
We believe that cavities in children can and should be eliminated
Every child can and should have a healthy smile because oral health is very much a part of general health and well being.
- We at GCDFund believe that local leaders working on a local agenda can bring about the necessary sustainable changes
- We support national taskforces, enhance partnerships, develop leadership skills and provide resources for relief and demonstration projects
We ask you to join us in meeting the challenge.
Meet our board members.
