CONTACT

E-mail: juliegs@unimelb.edu.au

Telephone: +61 3 9341 1530

QUALIFICATIONS

• Doctor of Philosophy, Deakin University, 2003
  Thesis entitled: Australian dental policy reform and the use of dental therapists and hygienists.
• Master Health Science (Health Promotion and Education) Deakin University 1998
  Thesis entitled; The Waverley Pilot Preschool Dental Program
• Graduate Diploma in Health Education , Deakin University, 1994
• Diploma of Applied Science (Dental Therapy) Melbourne 1977

SHORT HISTORY

• Graduated as a dental therapist in Melbourne in 1977, 18 years working for the Victorian School Dental Service as a clinical dental therapist, in management, and the dental health education unit.
• Community Project Officer 1993-1995(designing and implementing the Waverly Pilot Preschool Dental program)
• Long history of involvement (1976- present) with the Victorian and Australian Dental and Oral Health Therapists Associations,
• Active advocate for public oral health at state and national levels, roles on several committees and associations
• Spends one day a week working in a private orthodontic practice

TEACHING

• 1996- Current:  Melbourne Dental School, University of Melbourne.
• Course Coordinator, Bachelor of Oral Health
• Social Sciences Stream co-ordinator, and convener Health Promotion, Community Health Studies, Oral Health therapy research
• BOH Honours co-ordinator &  BOH Third Year Co-ordinator
• Curriculum development and teaching in dental therapy and dental hygiene for the Bachelor of Oral Health since 1993.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Dental policy
• Oral health workforce, regulation, policy and practice
• Oral health promotion and evaluation

RECENT RESEARCH

• Parental influences on oral health and weight gain in preschoolers
• Impact of oral health practitioners on dental practice, and oral health workforce innovation
• Oral Health promotion for people with mental illness in a community organsiation
• Promoting the oral health for Horn of Africa migrants using ethnic community radio
• Building Capacity of Doutta Galla Community Health to integrate Oral Health into the general health care services of the diabetic client
• Development of an Oral Health Promotion Resource for Victorian Department of Human Services
• Review of the Evidence for effectiveness of clinically based individual oral health education and promotion
• Review of the Evidence for effectiveness of school based oral health education and promotion
• Changing patterns of dental therapy employment and utilization since implementation of the Victorian Dental Practice Act 1999 (2006- 08)
• Dental Therapy Adult Trials – To examine the capacity for dental therapists to provide oral health care to adult patients
• Reviewing the evidence for oral health promotion effectiveness : 2000-2011

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• See Prof. Satur's Find an Expert page at The University of Melbourne.

MEMBERSHIPS & COMMUNITY ACTIVITY

• Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Dental and Oral Health Therapy
• Member National Oral Health Promotion Plan committee 2012
• Member Health Workforce Australia Professions Advisory Committee
• Chair, Australia- Pacific Taskforce – Global Child Oral Health Taskforce
  • Member, Global Child Oral Health Taskforce,(2008-2011)
  • Chair Small Grants Subcommittee (2009-2012)
• Editor in Chief: Australian New Zealand Journal of Dental and Oral Health Therapy
• Executive Member: College of Oral Health Academics
• National Oral Health Promotion Clearinghouse-
  • Chair Steering Committee
  • National Oral Health Promotion Messages consensus Workshop- Chair
• Member, Australian Dental Council Accreditation Team for Accreditation of dentistry and oral health programs
• Member Dental Health Services Victoria Workforce Advisory Committee
• Member, Dental Health Services Victoria (DHSV) Oral Health Promotion Strategic Planning Group
• Member, Expert Advisory Panel on Water Fluoridation, Victorian Department of Human Services
• Member, International Dental Graduates Assessment Processes Review Committee for the Commonwealth Dept of Health and Aging.
• Australian Dental and Oral Health Therapists Association – Member of Council
• Victorian Dental and Oral Health Therapists Association – Executive member
• Public Health Association of Australia
  • Oral Health Special Interest Group Executive
• Australian Health Promotion Association
• Member, National Advisory Committee on Oral Health 2002-2004
• Member, Reference Group Victorian Office of the Auditor General: Review of Community Dental Services 2002
• Member, Dental Practice Board of Victoria2000-2002

CONSULTANCIES

• External consultant to University of Fiji Department of Oral Health regarding the development of a proposal to establish a BOH program Oct 9-17 2010.
• Consultation- United States Government Accountability Office (GAO), an agency of the U.S. Congress that conducts evaluations and audits of government programs, is conducting a study of how mid-level dental providers (dental therapists, hygienists and oral health therapists)could improve children's access to oral health services. April 2010
• Consultant representing ADOHTA: Development of Competency Statements for Dental Therapists, Hygienists and Oral Health Therapists by the Australian Dental Council
• The Review of the Victorian Codes of Practice for Dental Therapy and Hygiene Practice; for the Victorian Dental Therapist Association, Nov 2006 - March 2007;
• The COAG National Health Registration Scheme, submission and advocacy for ADOHTA
• Victorian Oral Health Promotion Strategy Development project with Dental Health Services Victoria (2005-6)
• Dental Therapy Workforce Issues for Victorian Department of Human Services (2004)
• Oral Health Labourforce Review: for the Victorian Dental Therapist Association, March 2000
• Victorian Dental Therapists Association Submission to the Review of the Dentists Act. 1998
• Submission to the Senate Inquiry into the Role of the Commonwealth in the Delivery of Dental Services, 1998
• AHMAC Pilot Dental Auxiliary Project; Development of Competencies, October 1996