Section of Chief Dental Officers/Dental Public Health

The Section of Chief Dental Officers/Dental Public Health brings together Chief Dental Officers from around the world as well as researchers, educators, policymakers, practitioners and representatives of organizations engaged in dental public health.

Executive Board

Chair

Dr James Taylor

Canada

Secretary

Dr Hiram Lockhart

Bahamas

Member

Dr Chng Chai Kiat

Singapore

Member

Dr Riana Clarke

New Zealand

Member

Dr Codou Badiane Mané

Senegal

Reports

2025 Annual Report

Bylaws

By Laws of the CDO section

Global Chief Dental Officers

The Chief Dental Officers/Dental Public Health Section uses the term Chief Dental Officer (CDO) as a generic term that describes the one person in a country that is currently officially appointed as the senior civilian federal government policy authority in oral health. In countries that do not have a national CDO, the representative of the organization where the regional CDOs come together nationally is listed. While our Section strives to keep this global CDO list up to date, we realize that periodic changes take place in CDO position incumbents in all countries and that that information may not be immediately available to our Section. For this reason, we welcome FDI Regular and Associate Members to help us continually update this list by contacting the FDI Webmaster when the incumbent of their national CDO position changes.

Africa

Country	Chief Dental Officer
Algeria	Dr Farida SAIBI
Angola	Dr Djamila Saturnino OLIVEIRA
Benin	Dr Jean Guy ADJALLA
Botswana	Dr Faith GALEBOLE
Burkina Faso	Dr Rose DRABO
Burundi	Dr Juvénal Point MUYUKU
Cabo Verde	Dr Elisabeth Correia RODRIGUES
Cameroon	Dr Jean MIDOUNGE
Central African Republic	Dr Marthe Augustine KIRIMAT
Chad	Dr Abourma KEFAS
Comoros	Dr Ahamada Said ALIYASSAON
Côte d’Ivoire	Dr Marie-Laure TCHERE Yavo
Democratic Republic of Congo	Dr KABUYA wa Muele Alexandre
Egypt	Dr Ghada Marei Taha NASR
Equatorial Guinea	Dr Gaudencio Esono NGOMO
Eritrea	Mr Sebhatu BEYENE
Ethiopia	Dr Molla GEDEFAW
Gabon	Mr Honoré MAGANDA MIHINDOU
Gambia	Dr Emmanuel BAMGELU
Ghana	Dr Constance ADDO-YOBO
Guinea	Dr Norbert TRAORE
Guinea-Bissau	Dr Lizandra CABRAL DOS REIS
Hungary	Dr Orsolya NEMETH
Kenya	Dr Consolata OGGOT
Lesotho	Dr Lieketseng PETLANE
Liberia	Dr M. KANAGASABAI
Madagascar	Dr Samoelà Hérédia RAZAFINDRAMBOHO
Malawi	Dr Martha CHIPANDA
Mali	Dr Seydou GUEYE
Mauritania	Dr Mohamed ABDALLAHI Ahmed
Mauritius	Dr Ian RAMDIN
Mozambique	Dr Marta MAPENGO DOMINGOS
Namibia	Dr Nguundja MD UAMBURU
Niger	Dr Amadou IBRAHIM
Nigeria	Dr Bola ALONGE
Rwanda	Dr Adolph KARENZI
São Tomé and Príncipe	Dr Ednilsa CARVALHO
Senegal	Dr Codou BADIANE
Seychelles	Dr Martin HALL
Sierra Leone	Dr David Idris KAMARA
South Africa	Dr Mzimkhulu MCUBA
Swaziland	Dr Happiness N. MABUZA
Tanzania	Dr Baraka NZOBO
Togo	Dr Sama KOSSI
Tunisia	Dr Leila Larbi DOGHRI
Uganda	Dr Juliet Nabbanja KATUMBA
Zambia	Dr Mayuni SAKUSON
Zimbabwe	Dr Hardwicke MATIKITI

Asia

Country	Chief Dental Officer
Abu Dhabi	Dr Eissa AL-HOSANI
Armenia	Dr Davit MATEVOSYAN
Bahrain	Dr Abbas FARDAN
Bangladesh	Dr Umme Salma ABDULLAH
Cambodia	Dr Tepirou CHHER
Brunei Darussalam	Dr Malissa Abdullah SIKUN
Georgia	Dr Vladimer MARGVELASHVILI
Hong Kong SAR	Dr Kitty HSE
India	Dr Leimapokpam SWASTICHARAN
Iran	Dr Hamid SAMADZADEH
Iraq	Dr Fakhri Abed Ali ALFATLAWI
Israel	Dr Lena NATAPOV
Japan	Dr Nobuhiro TAGUCHI
Kuwait	Dr Meshaal ALI AHMED
Maldives	Dr Joy PICKSTOCK
Malaysia	Dr. Noormi Binti OTHMAN
Mongolia	Dr Dulguun BATBOLD
Myanmar	Dr Khin MAUNG
Nepal	Dr Shaili PRADHAN
Oman	Dr Salahudeen A. AL BULUSHI
People’s Republic of China	Dr Shuguo ZHENG
Qatar	Dr Rami Ahmad ASSAD
Saudi Arabia	Dr Mohammed AL-RAFEE
Singapore	Dr CHNG Chai Kiat
South Korea	Prof. Kee-Wan CHANG
Sri Lanka	Dr. J M W Jayasundara BANDARA
Thailand	Dr Piyada PRASERTSOM
Türkiye	Dr Emre KORKUT
Viet Nam	Dr Nguyen Thi Hong MINH

Europe

Country	Chief Dental Officer
Albania	Dr Dorjan HYSI
Austria	Dr Gabriele SAX
Belarus	Dr Andrei MATVEEV
Belgium	Dr Stefaan HANSON
Bulgaria	Dr Lydia KATROVA
Croatia	Dr Hrvoje PEZO
Cyprus	Dr Andri ARISTOTELOUS
Czech Republic	Dr Roman ŠMUCLER
Denmark	Dr Lene VILSTRUP
England	Dr Sara HURLEY
Estonia	Dr Ave PÖLD
Finland	Dr Merja Liisa AUERO
France	Dr Géraldine ROSET
Germany	Dr Sebastian ZILLER
Greece	Dr Aristomenis SYNGELAKIS
Hungary	Dr Ildikó PINKE
Iceland	Dr Helga ÁGÚSTSDÓTTIR
Ireland	Dr Dympna KAVANAGH
Italy	Dr Corrado PAGANELLI
Kosovo	Dr Blerim KAMBERI
Latvia	Dr Sanita INTLERE
Liechtenstein	Dr Hans Jörg MARXER
Lithuania	Dr Alina PURIENE
Luxembourg	Dr Carlo AHLBORN
Macedonia	Dr Elena SOZOVSKA
Malta	Dr Paula VASSALLO
Moldova	Dr Aurelia SPINEI
Netherlands	Dr Maaike WIJNHOUD
Northern Ireland	Dr Caroline LAPPIN
Norway	Dr Kjersti Refsholt STENHAGEN
Poland	Dr Konrad MALKIEWICZ
Portugal	Dr Inês Monteiro FILIPE
Romania	Prof. Dragos STANCIU
Russian Federation	Prof. Oleg JANUSHEVICH
Scotland	Dr Tom FERRIS
Slovakia	Dr Neda MARKOVSKA
Slovenia	Dr Krunoslav PAVLOVIC
Spain	Dr Joaquin Rubio AGENJO
Sweden	Dr Mariana NÄSLUND-BLIXT
Switzerland	Dr Marcell HUNGERBÜHLER
Ukraine	Dr Iryna MAZUR
Wales	Dr Andrew DICKENSON

North America

Country	Chief Dental Officer
Anguilla	Dr Lindel BROOKES
Antigua & Barbuda	Dr Gregson WILLIAMS
Bahamas	Dr Hiram Mitchell LOCKHART
Barbados	Dr Michelle Codrington
Belize	Dr Rafael SAMOS
Bermuda	Dr Joy PICKSTOCK
Canada	Dr James TAYLOR
Cayman Islands	Dr Naude DREYER
Costa Rica	Dr Nora Chavez QUIROZ
Cuba	Dr Maritza Sosa ROSALES
Dominica	Dr Idaline DARROUX-JOHN
Dominican Republic	Dr Juan José DOMINGUEZ
El Salvador	Dr Ana Vilma Ortega de BLANCO
Guatemala	Dr Carmen Lissette VANEGAS Chacón
Haiti	Dr Jean Marius LAFOND
Honduras	Dr Carlos Roberto AGUILAR
Jamaica	Dr Irving MCKENZIE
Mexico	Dr Heriberto Vera HERMOSILLO
Montserrat	Dr Coretta FERGUS
Nicaragua	Dr Concepcion PALACIOS
Panama	Dr Aminta GALVEZ
Puerto Rico	Dr Augusto ELIAS
St. Christopher (St. Kitts) & Nevis	Dr Randy LIBURD
St. Lucia	Dr Sherry Ephraim
Trinidad & Tobago	Dr Elizabeth PRAYMAN
Turks & Caicos Islands	Dr Janice BARON
United States	Dr Tim RICKS

Oceania

Country	Chief Dental Officer
Australia	Mr Mark CHILVERS
Fiji	Dr Tokasa Ratubalavu LEWENI
New Zealand	Dr Riana CLARKE
Phillipines	Dr Blesida SANCHEZ
Solomon Islands	Dr Ellison VANE
Vanuatu	Dr Jenny STEPHENS

South America

Country	Chief Dental Officer
Argentina	Dr Javier CANZANI
Brazil	Dr Doralice Severo DA CRUZ
Chile	Dr Carolina MENDOZA Van Der Molen
Colombia	Dr Sandra TOVAR Valencia
Ecuador	Dr Ximena RAZA
Guyana	Dr Joanes JEAN
Paraguay	Dr Gloria Medina QUIÑONEZ
Peru	Dr Jim Romero LLOLLA
Suriname	Dr Marcel PANDAY
Uruguay	Dr Pablo Bianco RICCI
Venezuela	Dr Defgren CAMEJO