Congratulations to Dr. Mary Ellen Macdonald and collaborators for being awarded a total of $25,000 in Innovation grants and $15,000 in student stipend awards from McGill’s VOICE (Views On Interdisciplinary Childhood Ethics)
VOICE Innovation Grant ($20,000)
Project: Working with Montreal schools to advance oral health care with refugeed children and their families
Mary Ellen Macdonald, PhD, Associate Professor, Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University
Beatriz Ferraz Dos Santos, DDS, MSc, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University; Research Director, Division of Dentistry, Montreal Children's Hospital
VOICE Innovation Grant ($5,000)
Project: Advancing Knowledge on Early Childhood Caries Prevention for Refugeed Children: a partnership between the Montreal Children’s Hospital’s Division of Dentistry and the Multicultural Clinic.
Mary Ellen Macdonald, PhD, Associate Professor, Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University
Beatriz Ferraz Dos Santos, DDS, MSc, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University; Research Director, Division of Dentistry, Montreal Children's Hospital;
Annie Marleau, DMD, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University; Chief, Division of Dentistry, Montreal Children's Hospital;
Louise T Auger, MD, PhD, FAAP, FRPC, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, McGill University; Head, Multicultural Clinic, Montreal Children’s Hospital
VOICE Doctoral stipend award ($10,000)
Project: The implementation of the Affordable Health Initiative Health Promoting School (AHi HPS) program in underserved and rural communities in Nigeria.
Trainee: Olawale Dudubo, Program of study: PhD in Oral Health Sciences
VOICE supervisor: Dr. Mary Ellen Macdonald (with Dr. Belinda Nicolau)
VOICE Student stipend award ($5,000)
Project title: A knowledge synthesis project addressing the impact of therapy-related side effects on the oral health and quality of life of children with cancer.
Trainee: Apoorva Sharma, Program of study: MSc Dental Sciences (Thesis)
VOICE supervisor: Dr. Mary Ellen Macdonald