Sustainable Oral Health: Leave No One Behind
January 24th, 2025, at 11:30 am at ARENA CFO, CIOSP, São Paulo 2025
Session Objectives
Emphasize the urgency of addressing the impacts of climate change on oral health systems, services, and care, as well as its disproportionate effects on vulnerable populations and Indigenous peoples.
Highlight the role of innovation, alongside leadership and collaboration, in advancing sustainable and equitable oral health.
Explore how education, workforce development, deployment and retention, and policy alignment can prepare the oral health sector to meet future challenges
Mobilize stakeholders through a transdisciplinary approach to embed sustainability in oral health practices and systems.
concept
The round table session Sustainable Oral Health: Leave No One Behind, sponsored by the Brazilian Association of Dentists (ABCD) and the Fluminense Federal University (UFF), aims to address the intersection of oral health, climate change, and UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The session will explore a broad framework of interconnected solutions for sustainable development, including innovation, leadership, education, policy integration, and collaborative action to build a resilient and inclusive oral health sector. This event positions Brazil as a leader in sustainable oral health, setting the stage for further discussions at COP30.
Guided by internationally renowed oral health leaders, the session program will focus on key challenges and solutions for a sustainable health future
TOPICS
Innovation as a Catalyst for Change: understand how new models for sustainable oral health can accelerate transformative solutions and exploring how advancements in technology could enhance sustainable oral health practices and systems.
Workforce Preparedness and Sustainability competencies: Ensuring the next generation of professionals is equipped with the skills and mindset for emerging challenges.
The Role of Leadership and Collaboration: Demonstrating how transdisciplinary partnerships and strong governance drive impactful outcomes.
Call to Action
Shaping the Future of Sustainable Oral Health
The Call
The São Paulo Call to Action: Shaping the Future of Sustainable Oral Health will be launched on January 24, 2025, at the CFO ARENA during CIOSP. It is the result of contributions from various partners and outlines pathways for transforming the oral health sector.
The Commitment
The commitment provides recommendations to mobilize various sectors of society toward sustainable health, aligning with Sustainable Development Goal 3 (Good Health and Well-being) of the UN’s 2030 Agenda.
Join Us
People and institutions of all types will be able to join the commitment established in this call. Joining is voluntary, free of charge and carried out by filling out an online form on the website Sustainable Oral Health | AGIR | UFF-NF With this, we will create a network of partners to discuss the sustainable development of the health segment, plan and implement actions to promote the transformation that society expects.
CLICK HERE to sign the São Paulo Call to Action: Shaping the Future of Sustainable Oral Health
CLICK HERE to download the São Paulo Call to Action: Shaping the Future of Sustainable Oral Health
Key references for the event
- WHO Global Oral Health Action Plan (2023–2030), https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/ncds/mnd/oral-health/eb152-draft-global-oral-health-action-plan-2023-2030-en.pdf?sfvrsn=2f348123_19&download=true
- Bangkok Declaration – No Health Without Oral Health, https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/ncds/mnd/oral-health/bangkok-declaration-oral-health.pdf?sfvrsn=15957742_4
- WHO Global oral health status report: towards universal health coverage for oral health by 2030, https://www.who.int/team/noncommunicable-diseases/global-status-report-on-oral-health-2022
- WHO Communicating on climate change and health: Toolkit for health professionals, https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240090224
- WHO Integrating the social determinants of health into health workforce education and training and chapter on oral health, https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240064256
- Advancing the concept of global oral health to strengthen actions for planetary health and One Health, https://equityhealthj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12939-024-02176-6
- Science, Technology, and Innovation for the SDGs – Progress, Future vision, and Recommendations, https://unece.org/innovation-sustainable-development-reviews-i4sdrs
- Science, Technology and Innovation for Achieving the SDGs: Guidelines for Policy Formulation. https://sdgs.un.org/sites/default/files/2022-06/ONLINE_STI_SGDs_GUIDELINES_EN_v3_0.pdf