American Association of Public Health Dentistry

The American Association of Public Health Dentistry was founded in 1937. AAPHD publishes a newsletter for AAPHD members and a journal, the Journal of Public Health Dentistry.^[3] It offers online continuing education courses for public health dentists in oral health literacy, dental public health policy and advocacy, and professional dental ethics.^[4]

Since October 2014, Julie Frantsve-Hawley, PhD,^[5] has been the executive director of AAPHD.^[6] She had been with American Dental Association before and had edited journals in evidence-based dentistry.^{[citation needed]}

Each year it plans a National Oral Health Conference® (NOHC) in the United States, which next will be held from April 16–18, 2018 in Louisville, Kentucky.^[7]

AAPHD student chapters are found in major US dental schools.^{[8][9][10][11]}

Similar national dental student groups (with chapters in dental schools)^[12] include:

• Alpha Omega (AO) - Alpha Omega International, an international Jewish dental fraternity founded in Baltimore, Maryland in 1907 by a group of dental students originally to fight discrimination in dental schools. It now claims about 5000 members in 105 chapters worldwide.^[13][14]
• American Association of Women Dentists (AAWD)
• American Student Dental Association (ASDA)
• Asian Dental Student Organization (ADSO)
• Hispanic Student Dental Association (HSDA)
• Omicron Kappa Upsilon - the National Dental Honors Society
• Student National Dental Association (SNDA)

• Home page for the American Association of Public Health Dentistry (AAPHD)