056- Protecting Our Public Health with Sharity Ludwig

This week on Protecting our Public Health, Sharity is joined again by Dr. Erinne Kennedy, DMD, MPH, MMSc. Dr. Kennedy and Sharity talk to us about education and applying her research with the community in Alaska.   Highlights  Online Course Dental Health Aid Therapist  Community Based Program  ASTDD - Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors Student Centered Learning Community Toolbox  Quotes   “When you are practicing true community based research, you often go in with one idea, and come out realizing you need to do something totally different.”    “This course empowered, equipped and provided resources that were all in one location.”    “They are often recruited from the same community they go back and serve.”    “There is school, and then there is real life, and sometimes there is a disconnect.”    “I need to ask myself, ‘Did I do that?’ and if I didn’t, I need to go back and fix that.”   “There are very few problems in a dental office that cannot be solved through these three perspectives.”    Links   https://www.thecommunityguide.org/content/community-toolbox-developing-strategic-and-action-plans?fbclid=IwAR2vNU4_iRSaz0AIR2zOkqlOWiINoxwvyx43trQOXU9MvLn5G8i5BTy62zs   More Protecting our Public Health Episodes: https://ataleoftwohygienists.com/protectingourpublichealth/  Sharitys Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sharetherdhlove/ The Dental Podcast Network Channel One homepage: http://dentalpodcastnetworkchannelone.otcpn.libsynpro.com/ The Dental Podcast Network Channel Two homepage: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dental-podcast-networks-channel-two/id1478530429