Newcastle University

Oral Health Services Research

The Oral Health Services Research Research Programme is led by Professor Jimmy Steele.

We all need dental care at some stage of our life, for most of us that will be regular and for many will be extensive and expensive. By virtue of its almost universal relevance, oral health has a significant impact on our society, affecting the way we behave and interact, our diet and nutrition, our health, our quality of life and our pockets. The programme of the oral health group brings together the clinical and service innovations of dental researchers with the methodological skills and ideas of the institute.  

The current programme is “cross-cutting” and combines dental academics working with researchers from several of the other IHS programmes. Collaboration is facilitated through the Faculty's Oral Health Research Group.  The work that comes under the the dental programme ranges from large scale epidemiology (Thousand families study, Newcastle 85+ study), through to clinical trials in primary care and testing nutritional interventions in the community. Increasingly we are working towards understanding and modelling how oral health issues affect patients, specifically what underpins the choices patients and dentists make in the uniquely mixed economy of dentistry, and the management of scarce public resources for maximum oral health benefit.

Current Collaborators

Staff List

Oral Health Services

Justin Durham NIHR Academic Clinical lecturer in Oral Surgery	Email: justin.durham@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 7828
Dr Janice Ellis Clinical Senior Lecturer	Email: janice.ellis@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 8198
Dr Catherine Exley Senior Lecturer in Medical Sociology	Email: catherine.exley@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 3805
Dr Nick Jepson Clinical Senior Lecturer/Consultant	Email: nicholas.jepson@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 7829
Professor Paula Moynihan Prof of Nutrition & Oral Health	Email: paula.moynihan@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 8241
Professor James Steele CBE Head of School and Professor of Oral Health Services Research	Email: jimmy.steele@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 8199
Professor J Mark Thomason Professor of Prosthodontics & Oral Rehabilitation	Email: j.m.thomason@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 8189
Professor Angus Walls Professor of Restorative Dentistry	Email: angus.walls@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 7823
Dr John Whitworth Clinical Consultant/Senior Lecturer	Email: john.whitworth@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 7825