Who is Involved
The Better Oral Health for Massachusetts Coalition has representation from programs, providers and provider organizations, lawmakers, state and city oral health officials, insurers, health advocates, policy leaders and community advocates in communities from Cape Cod to the Berkshires. Below is a partial alphabetical listing of official participating organizations.
- Bay State Dental Society, a local chapter of the National Dental Association
- Baystate Health
- Boston Public Health Commission
- Cambridge Health Alliance
- Children’s Hospital Boston
- Doral USA
- DentaQuest Foundation (formerly Oral Health Foundation)
- Delta Dental of Massachusetts
- The Forsyth Institute
- Justice Resource Institute, Inc
- Massachusetts Association of Community Health Workers
- Massachusetts Board of Registration in Dentistry
- Massachusetts Chapter of the Hispanic Dental Association
- Massachusetts Coalition of School-based Health Centers
- Massachusetts Dental Hygienists’ Association
- Massachusetts Dental Society
- Massachusetts Department of Public Health
- Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- Oral Health Advocacy Task Force
- Partners for a Healthier Community, Inc.
- RDH Temps
- Tri-County Collaborative for Oral Health Excellence
The Better Oral Health for Massachusetts Summit at Sturbridge in June 2008 was sponsored by organizations that gave birth to the idea of creating change in the oral health of Massachusetts residents through collaboration: the DentaQuest Foundation (formerly Oral Health Foundation), Partners for a Healthier Community, Inc., Delta Dental of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Dental Society, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Massachusetts Dental Hygienists’ Association and the Justice Resource Institute, Inc.
If you would like your organization to join and partner with the Coalition, please contact the coordinator at 617.886.1599 or biyi.ogunjimi@dentaquestfoundation.org.
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