John Rogers, a Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne Dental School since 2017, has more than 45 years' experience in management and policy development in public dental health and community health in Australia and overseas. He has worked in Papua New Guinea, Yemen, Vietnam, England and Australia. In 2007 he was a WHO dental public health consultant in Vietnam. After public health roles overseas, John managed the Peninsula Community Health Service in outer Melbourne from 1985-89. He then served as Principal Oral Health Policy Advisor in the Victorian Department of Health until 2019. A Fellow of the Public Health Association of Australia, John holds a Bachelor of Dental Science, a Master of Public Health and a PhD and is a registered specialist in public health dentistry. Jamie Robertson graduated as a Bachelor of Dental Surgery from the University of Glasgow in 1967 and then spent two years working for a medical mission in northern Canada. His first post in Australia was at the Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne. After running his own private practice for 40 years, Jamie took up a clinical position with cohealth, a large community health centre in the western suburbs of Melbourne, where he worked for five years. Jamie has served as a director on the boards of the Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne and Dental Health Services Victoria. While working in dentistry, he completed Arts and Public Health degrees at the University of Melbourne.
A key reference for oral, public health, and policy students and practitioners, policy makers, health historians and all people concerned about a fair go for all Australians. This important and timely book traces the complex interactions of social, political and economic factors that have shaped the oral health of Victorians, and more broadly Australians, over the past five decades. It provides a roadmap of how we arrived at the current dental health system as well as a compass indicating future trends and directions. Professor Alastair J Sloan, Head of Melbourne Dental School, The University of Melbourne The detailed research and insightful perspectives will enable all people concerned about a fair go for all Australians to learn from the past and help create a system that is more equitable for all.