Mainstreaming Oral Health Research

Dr P Wanzala-KEMRI

• Oral Health research process of generating local scientific data to inform policy.

• Mainstreaming is not an end in itself but a strategy, an approach, a means to achieve the goal of excellence in oral health research during this process.

• Example from the Oral HIV studies and Periodontal research done at KEMRI illustrate this effort based on Scientific impact factor(SIF) contribution.

• Low prevalence of oral mucosal lesions in HIV-1 seropositive African women

• Journal of Oral Pathology & Medicine

• Volume 18, Issue 7, August 1989, Pages: 416–418, Peter Wanzala, Firoze Manji, Jens J Pindborg and Francis Plummer

• Oral diseases, mycology and periodontal microbiology of HIV-1-infected women

• Oral Microbiology and Immunology

• Volume 11, Issue 6, December 1996, Pages: 371–380, L. J. Brady, C. Walker, G. E. Oxford, C. Stewart, I. Magnusson and W. McArthur

• Epidemiology of HIV-related oral manifestations in women: A review

• Oral Diseases

• Volume 3, Issue S1, May 1997, Pages: S18–S27, Dr CH Shiboski

• Oral manifestations in 70 German HIV-infected women

• Oral Diseases

• Volume 3, Issue S1, May 1997, Pages: S28–S30, A Schmidt-Westhausen, Th Grünewald, PA Reichart and HD Pohle

• HIV-associated oral lesions: Prevalence in Zambia

• Oral Diseases

• Volume 3, Issue S1, May 1997, Pages: S46–S50, TA Hodgson

• Oral manifestations of HIV infection by gender and transmission category in Mexico City

• Journal of Oral Pathology & Medicine

• Volume 27, Issue 3, March 1998, Pages: 135–140, Velia Ramirez-Amador, Lilly Esquivel-Pedraza, Juan Sierra-Madero, Samuel Ponce-de-Leon and Sergio Ponce-de-Leon

• Oral manifestations associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in developing countries—are there differences from developed countries?

• Oral Diseases

• Volume 6, Issue 3, May 2000, Pages: 133–135, T Arendorf and H Holmes

• Occurrence of oral lesions in relation to clinical and immunological status among HIV-infected adult Tanzanians

• Oral Diseases

• Volume 6, Issue 2, March 2000, Pages: 106–111, MI Matee, F. Scheutz and J. Moshy

• Oral fungal and bacterial infections in HIV-infected individuals: an overview in Africa

• Oral Diseases

• Volume 8, Issue s2, July 2002, Pages: 80–87, TA Hodgson and CC Rachanis

• Prevalence and classification of HIV-associated oral lesions

• Oral Diseases

• Volume 8, Issue s2, July 2002, Pages: 98–109, LL Patton, JA Phelan, FJ Ramos-Gomez, W Nittayananta, CH Shiboski and TL Mbuguye

• Association Between Periodontal Disease and Pathogen Related Oral Spirochaetes in Dental Plaque in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infected and Uninfected Individuals

• Peter Wanzala

• University of Washington, 1992

• Relationship between CPITN and periodontal attachment loss findings in an adult population

• Journal of Clinical Periodontology

• Volume 22, Issue 2, February 1995, Pages: 146–152, Vibeke Baelum, Firoze Manji, Peter Wanzala and Ole Fejerskov

• Dental calculus: recent insights into occurrence, formation, prevention, removal and oral health effects of supragingival and subgingival deposits

• European Journal of Oral Sciences

• Volume 105, Issue 5, OCTOBER 1997, Pages: 508–522, Donald J. White

• Influence of CPITN partial recordings on estimates of prevalence and severity of various periodontal conditions in adults

• Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

• Volume 21, Issue 6, December 1993, Pages: 354–359, Vibeke Baelum, Ole Fejerskov, Firoze Manji and Peter Wanzala

• CPITN and the epidemiology of periodontal disease Commentary

• Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

• Volume 24, Issue 6, December 1996, Pages: 367–368, Vibeke Baelum and Panos N. Papapanou

• Epidemiology of periodontal disease among older adults: a review

• Periodontology 2000

• Volume 16, Issue 1, February 1998, Pages: 16–33, David Locker, Gary D. Slade and Heather Murray

• Periodontal diseases in Asia and Oceania

• Periodontology 2000

• Volume 29, Issue 1, April 2002, Pages: 122–152, Esmonde F. Corbet, K.-Y. Zee and Edward C. M. Lo

• The usefulness of using Ramfjord teeth in predicting periodontal status of a Tanzanian adult population

• Journal of Clinical Periodontology

• Volume 31, Issue 1, January 2004, Pages: 16–18, E. G. S. Mumghamba, W. Pitiphat, M. I. N. Matee, E. Simon and A. T. Merchant

• Recording and surveillance systems for periodontal diseases

• Periodontology 2000

• Volume 60, Issue 1, October 2012, Pages: 40–53, Eugenio D. Beltrán-Aguilar, Paul I. Eke, Gina Thornton-Evans and Poul E. Petersen

• Periodontal disease epidemiology – learned and unlearned?

• Periodontology 2000

• Volume 62, Issue 1, June 2013, Pages: 37–58, Vibeke Baelum and Rodrigo López

Nairobi Cancer Registry

• Nairobi Cancer Registry is a population-based registry that was established in the year 2001 at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Nairobi under center for clinical research.

• The registry identifies and abstract cancer cases from various health facilities for purposes of determining

• incidence,

• prevalence and

• mortality rates from cancer in Nairobi region.

• The head and neck group of cancers is noted to be higher in male than female a ratio of 2.4:1 respectivley.

•Thank you