Callum Durward BDS, DDS, MSc, MPH

Dr. Callum Durward is graduated from the University of Otago in 1981. Later he gained an MDSc in “Childrens and Preventive Dentistry” from the University of Melbourne, and an MPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In the 1980s he spent several years working in refugee camps in Thailand and Malaysia. In the early ‘90s he worked in Cambodia for an NGO called World Concern, helping to develop dental services and education. During 2001-2003 Dr Durward spent 6 months in East Timor as the Oral Health Promotion Advisor for the Australia-East Timor National Oral Health Project. He has also been a Senior Lecturer at the University of Otago and AUT University, Principal Dental Officer for the Otago District Health Board, and a Consultant Paediatric Dentist for the Auckland District Health Board. He has lived in Cambodia for the past 11 years where he is Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Puthisastra. Dr Durward also does part-time private practice, and is Dental Director of an NGO called One-2-One Cambodia, which provides dental services for prisoners, children with clefts, children with HIV, and children and adults from deprived backgrounds. He has also been involved in several large school-based projects including SEAL Cambodia and Healthy Kids Cambodia. Dr Durward is on the committees of several local and regional dental organizations, and is actively involved in several research projects, especially related to ECC, silver diammine fluoride, teaching and learning, and special needs dentistry.