Elizabeth Shick, DDS, MPH, is a board-certified pediatric dentist and public health professional with extensive experience spanning clinical care, academia, and global oral health leadership. She is an Associate Professor of Pediatric Dentistry at the University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine in Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. Dr. Shick is an active FDI contributor and currently serves on the FDI-World Dental Federation’s Public Health Committee and the Whole Body Health Task Team. She is actively involved in international initiatives focused on One Health and environmental sustainability, cleft care, and global oral health education. In 2026, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for Teaching and Research at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.

Dr Zehra Yonel is an ACL in Restorative Dentistry at the School of Dentistry in the University of Birmingham. She completed her PhD, funded by the NIHR (National Institute for Health Research) and Diabetes UK, as part of a Doctoral Research Fellowship (DRF). Her research interests lie in the fields of periodontology, epidemiology and the interface between oral and systemic diseases. Zehra is a calibrated assessor of periodontal indices used in clinical studies.