1. ASEAN Chief Dental Officers Meeting
Moving Forward and Beyond
Collaboration
28 August 2013

2. Three Questions Do we need to collaborate?
If yes, what areas will be covered
How can we run our collaboration?

3. Goals of the Collaboration
Formal or Informal?
Formal body could obtain political support from ASEAN and Member-States
What are your priorities? It varies per country. The first priority is promotion of Oral Health in the Region

4. The Need for Collaboration
A Resounding Yes from Everyone
There is great need and aspiration to strengthen social and political acceptance of Oral Health as a bio-medical discipline at the regional and local level
Increasing the voice of Oral Health in WHO policies
Collaboration provides the chance for support and greater space for learning
Holistic Approach: Enhancing Quality of Life

5. Areas for Collaboration
Information Development and Sharing
Develop a website for the collaboration
Come up with a distinct Name. (Dr. Prae will supervise this)
Maximise the existing roadmap and programmes developed by the CDO and the ASEAN Joint Coordinating Committee for Dental Practitioners
Resource hub (i.e. Dropbox—free and accessible to all)- Dr. Sunsanee will take care of this.
Include information on conferences/symposia/trainings in ASEAN
Include narratives on practices
Write and submit articles on Oral Health Promotion

6. Areas for Collaboration
Enhancing Competencies
Training Programmes for Dental Personnel
Continuing Education for dental personnel
Research on oral health programmes, activities
Collaboration for multi-centre research
Standard Research methodologies (collaboration with Academics)
Regional Exchange programmes: Consultacies, Personnel and Students
Developing a Regional Standandized curriculum for Community-based Oral Health Work

7. Areas for Collaboration
Enhancing Competencies (Cont’d)
Knowledge sharing on Dental Safety Goals
Clinical Practice Guidelines
Universal Health Care Systems in different countries
Licensing Programme (Sharing of Practices)

8. Areas for Collaboration
Strengthening and Empowering the Community
Sharing of Best Practices in terms of Promotion of Oral Health Programmes and Services (Technology, Advocacy, Information Systems, Education)
Build and Nurture sense of Ownership amongst community members

9. Areas for Collaboration
Monitoring and Feedback mechanism
Amongst New Graduates and Personnel: Strengthen ways to enhance performance level through an evaluation process
Amongst National Agencies and Community Centers: Periodic evaluation of implementation
Amongst Regional Coalition Members: Report-back system

10. Ways to Collaborate Website will be developed
Initial Membership: ASEAN Members Only
Conduct Annual Meetings, Workshops, Conferences (to be proposed to Ministry of Health)– it has to be related to ASEAN (suggestion to put ASEAN ++)
Identify themes for discussion in the following years: Community Programmes
Skype Meeting is more feasible as informal contact platform.
Process of Counterpart: technical and financial
Intra-collaboration: Within ASEAN (as a whole or bilaterally)
Inter-collaboration: With other Asian countries
Supra-collaboration: With other Networks, academics, WHO and private sector

11. Good Luck