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November 19, 2012 | Program Result Report
RWJF's Dental Pipeline Program helped dental schools increase access to dental care for underserved populations through expanded community-based education and recruitment of underrepresented minority and low-income students.
November 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Low-income children and adolescents continue to bear a heavy burden of untreated pain and complications from dental disease.
February 21, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
For instance, there are programs to educate pediatric physicians to apply fluoride varnishes, and for nurse practitioners to do oral exams and provide preventive services for young children during check-ups. HCB: What else did the Initiative include ...
October 6, 2011 | Story
Since establishing the first community health clinic in Reno, Nev., in 1995, Rodolico has worked to provide primary care, mental health and dental care to uninsured workers and to children in northern Nevada.
October 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the California Endowment contracted nationally recognized health services researchers from UCLA to perform a rigorous evaluation of the Pipeline, Profession, and Practice: Community-Based Dental Education program. This preface describes the Dental Pipeline program.
October 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This chapter of this special supplement on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Pipeline, Profession, and Practice: Community-Based Dental Education program explores issues related to setting up a successful CBDE.
June 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Recruiting underrepresented minority dental students of all income groups leads to more students graduating with the intention to serve minorities.
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
The authors recommend that educational programs be evaluated for the effect on the oral health of the children they serve and that closer medical-dental collaborations be fostered at all levels of the educational continuum.
February 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This study considers the effects of high levels of community unemployment on the use of preventive dental services in the Seattle and the Spokane areas of Washington.
February 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Launched in 2001, the Pipeline, Profession & Practice: Community-Based Dental Education (Dental Pipeline) program was a five-year program designed to help increase access to dental care for underserved populations. This special supplement to the Journal of Dental Education describes the evaluation in detail.