Our
Mission
The
overall mission of CREEDD is:
- To
improve oral, dental and craniofacial health through research, research
training, and the dissemination of health information
- To
eliminate oral health disparities
More
specifically, the mission of the Center for Research to Evaluate and
Eliminate Dental Disparities (CREEDD) is to reduce oral health disparities
through a combination of community outreach, clinical research and basic
science. Our objectives are to: (1) conduct research that will lead
to an understanding of the factors associated with oral health disparities,
(2) develop, test and evaluate interventions designed to reduce oral
health disparities, in children and their caregivers, (3) serve as a
training and mentoring resource for developing and strengthening biomedical,
clinical and behavioral oral health research capacity by expanding research
opportunities for scientists in under-represented groups within the
scientific workforce as well as through other career development activities,
(4) disseminate information on oral health status of underserved populations,
and on effective means to reduce oral health disparities and (5) over
the seven year period of initial support for the Center, to create a
regional network of collaborating institutions, building on the partnerships
already established in the course of developing this application.
