USMOD students are engaged in their communities — both locally and abroad — during their time in dental school.

Local and global engagement initiatives give students an opportunity to learn about global oral health from colleagues and community partners, provide clinical dentistry with faculty colleagues, and lead educational programs for underserved populations. These experiences help prepare UMSOD graduates to continue to be engaged in the advancement of oral health -- home and abroad.

UMSOD collaborates with numerous local and global non-profit organizations, academic institutions, and other collaborators. A few of our collaborators include:

• Division of Pediatric Dentistry
  • Clinical care collaboration for Pediatric Residents with Ecuadent Foundation
    
    
• Dental student collaborations
  • Rotary International
  • University of Maryland College Park, School of Public Health and the Compone, Peru community
  • Xi’an Jiaotong University College of Stomatology

• Developing an oral health education work plan utilizing a non-dental professional workforce in resource challenged communities in Rwanda
• Developing a healthy lifestyle-centered oral health care curriculum for primary school-aged children and a rural community-based non-profit project
• Interprofessional HIV global health project in Brazil

• Global Health at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
• UMB Holds Inaugural Global Health Summit