Professor Loc Do

• Biography/ Background

  Loc is a dentist and an oral epidemiologist with special interest in social and clinical oral epidemiology. He has a wide range of research interest.

  Currently, he is a Chief Investigator of the National Child Oral Health Study and a birth cohort study investigating impact of socioeconomic inequality on child oral health funded by NHMRC.

   

  Other responsibilities

  • Associate Editor of BMC Oral Health
  • Member of various committees of the International Association of Dental Research (IADR).

   

• Qualifications

  BDS, MScDent, PhD

• Awards & Achievements

  2017     International: IADR EW Borrow Memorial Award, awarded at the 95th General Session of the IADR, 

              San Francisco, USA

  2012     University: FICA Travel Award. Faculty of Health Sciences, the University of Adelaide.

  2009     University: Mutual Community Award. Faculty of Health Sciences, the University of Adelaide.

  2007     National: Investigator Award in Community and Preventive Dentistry, awarded at the 47th Annual Meeting of the               IADR Australian New Zealand Division, Barossa Valley.

  2005     International: IADR/Lion Investigator Award, awarded at the 83rd General Session of the IADR, Baltimore, USA.

  2004     International: IADR/Colgate Research in Prevention Award, awarded at the 82nd  General Session of the IADR,
               Honolulu USA.

   

• Research Interests

  ·         Oral epidemiological measurement of dental diseases

  ·         Quantitative analysis of oral epidemiological data including multilevel analysis

  ·         Risk and benefit trade-off in the use of fluorides in children

  ·         Natural history of dental fluorosis

  ·         Socio-economic inequality in oral health

  ·         Oral health-related quality of life

  ·         Smoking as a risk factor for periodontal diseases

  ·         Effectiveness and safety of water fluoridation in children

• Research Funding

  CI-A 2019-2021	NHMRC Project Grant	Do LG Sawyer A Jones A Ha DH Leary S Spencer AJ	Effect of exposure to fluoridated water in early childhood on child psychological and intellectual development	$828,756
  CI-A 2018-2022	NHMRC Project Grant	Do LG Golley R Ha DH Leary S Manton D Thomson WM Scott  J Spencer AJ	Determinants of inequality in child oral health at school age–A prospective cohort study	$1,229,852
  CI-A 2013-2016	NHMRC Project Grant	Do LG Spencer AJ Thomson WM Scott  J	Common risk factor approaches to address socioeconomic inequality in child oral health	$773,033
  CI-B 2016-2019	NHMRC Partnership Grant	Peres M Do LG Brennan D Spencer AJ Karnon J Roberts-Thomson KF Peres K Thomson WM Luzzi L Harford JE	Delivering effective dental healthcare in 2020-2030: A national longitudinal partnership study of burden of oral diseases in Australia	$1,056,521
  CI-A 2012-2015	NHMRC Career Development Fellowship	Do LG	Understanding influences on child oral health	$391,076
  CI-B 2012-2016	NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence	Brennan D Do LG Roberts-Thomson KF Spencer AJ	Dental health services research for improved oral health outcomes	$2,464,677
  CI-B 2011-2014	NHMRC Partnership Grant	Spencer AJ Do LG Brennan D Roberts-Thomson KF	Impact of health policy on the delivery of dental services and child oral health outcomes	$1,259,000
  CI-B 2011-2014	NHMRC Project Grant	Roberts-Thomson KF Do LG	Is silver fluoride effective in managing deciduous caries in Indigenous children?	$662,066
  CI-A 2009-2012	NHMRC Project Grant	Do LG Spencer AJ	Natural history and longterm impact of dental fluorosis.	$310,150
  CI-B 2011-2014	Cancer Aust Project Grant	Farah C Do LG	Screening for oral cancer.	$512,276
  CI-A 2007-2009	NHMRC Project Grant	Do LG Liu P	Socioeconomic gradients in children's oral health.	$72,500
  CI-B 2009-2010	NHMRC Project Grant	Spencer AJ Do LG	Effect of fluoridation on initiation of caries.	$193,375.

   

Entry last updated: Friday, 17 May 2019