Mario Brondani

Mario Brondani, DDS, MSc, MPH, PhD, is an associate professor and director of the Dental Public Health Graduate Program at the University of British Columbia. He also serves as the current president (2017-19) of the Canadian Association of Public Health Dentistry. Mario’s passion for access to care and dental public health started while working as a general dentist in his private practice (1994-2001) in Brazil. At that time, he volunteered in a long-term care facility which prompted him to concentrate efforts towards gerontology/geriatrics. His MSc (2000-2002, Brazil) focused on the development, application and evaluation of an educational oral health program for seniors and care aids from 12 long-term care facilities. He soon after pursued a Ph.D (2002-2007, UBC Faculty of Dentistry) to evaluate and refine a model of oral health for older adults and to unravel the validity of dental psychometrics used to measure the oral health-related quality of life in old age. After completing a M.P.H in 2012 with focus on HIV resource services, Mario proposed and developed a graduate program in Dental Public Health as a dual degree in partnership with the UBC School of Population and Public Health. Mario also completed a Teaching in Higher Education Certificate Program – Graduated Certificate Program (2006-2007) from the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology and a Peer Reviewer Workshop for Educators, both at UBC.

Mario focuses his research in dental public heath and access to care, dental education and learning pedagogies, and geriatric dentistry.