BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Association of Health Care Journalists - ECPv6.17.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Association of Health Care Journalists X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://healthjournalism.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Association of Health Care Journalists REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20130310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20131103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20140309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20141102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20150308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20151101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141016T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141016T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T155933Z CREATED:20231103T155352Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T155933Z UID:26003-1413421200-1413421200@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Fluoridation and your community DESCRIPTION:Watch a recording of this webcast.\nResources\n\n\nAHCJ Core Topic: Oral Health \n\n\nWater fluoridation: What reporters need to know \n\n\nCampaign for Dental Health (I Like My Teeth) \n\n\n \n\nCommunity water fluoridation has been hailed as one of the public health triumphs of the 20th century. For more than 65 years\, communities across the United States have been supplementing naturally occurring fluoride in water supplies to promote oral health. At what are considered optimum levels\, numerous studies have shown fluoride reduces cavities. At the same time\, critics continue to fight water fluoridation efforts\, armed with papers they say highlight the dangers of fluoride. \nWith battles playing out in communities from Alabama to Oregon\, what do reporters need to know about the science and pseudo-science behind water fluoridation? Our webinar will feature Shelly Gehshan\, director of  children’s dental policy at The Pew Charitable Trusts\, and Mary Otto\, AHCJ’s Oral Health core topic leader.  \nDate & time:2 p.m. ET\, Oct. 16  \n \nShelly Gehshan (@SGehshan) directs children’s dental policy at Pew\, supervising work with states to expand access to prevention and treatment for children through policy changes in Medicaid\, sealant programs\, community water fluoridation and the dental workforce. She speaks frequently about an expanded dental workforce and the benefits of community water fluoridation. She helped legislators in Minnesota draft the nation’s first state law licensing dental therapists. She served on the Institute of Medicine panel that released a major report in 2011 on the dental access problem. Gehshan spent nearly 20 years working for state policy makers on a range of issues affecting low-income women and children. \nFor technical questions about fluoridation\, contact William Maas\, adviser for the Children’s Dental Policy\, The Pew Charitable Trusts: BMaas-consultant@pewtrusts.org \nMaas is the former director of the Division of Oral Health in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. \n\nShelly Gehshan \n\n\nMary Otto URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/fluoridation-and-your-community/ LOCATION:Georgia CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR