NIDCR Awards 7-Year Grant to CREEDD

The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a grant to the Center for Research to Evaluate & Eliminate Dental Disparities (CREEDD). The grant, totaling just over $14.5 million, will fund CREEDD from 2008 to 2015. Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine (BUGSDM) Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Health Services Research Dr. Raul Garcia will serve as Principal Investigator and Professor and Assistant Dean for Community Partnerships and Extramural Affairs Dr. Michelle Henshaw will serve as Co-Principal Investigator. This is the single largest award in BUGSDM history and among the 10 largest awards at Boston University Medical Campus.
 

CREEDD’s mission is to improve oral, dental, and craniofacial health through research, research training, and the dissemination of health information, as well as to eliminate oral health disparities. CREEDD was created in 2001 with joint funding from the NIDCR and the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD). CREEDD is one of five national centers for oral health disparities. The funding for these centers is the single largest expenditure in the history of NIDCR.

“Our entire team is proud to have received this very large and highly competitive NIH award;" said Dr. Garcia. "It’s a clear validation of our team’s success over the past seven years in conducting community-based oral health research targeted at the elimination of oral health disparities. It’s also a testament to the great support that CREEDD has received from BUGSDM leadership, in particular from Dean Hutter.”

"Dr. Garcia’s team should be very proud of their accomplishment," said Dean Jeffrey Hutter. "CREEDD is an outstanding Center whose research benefits oral health in communities across the Northeast."