Board of Directors

HUMBLE SMILE FOUNDATION – GLOBAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Kaiwan Chu

Lead Donor, Executive Committee

Juliana Bambridge

Group Relations, Executive Committee

Leoni Groot

Secretary, Executive Committee

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Lois K. Cohen, PhD

Lois is a sociologist with an extensive career in research and health science administration. She serves as a consultant & Paul G. Rogers Ambassador for Global Health Research and provides consultation for the WHO and National Institutes of Health,the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, various universities and professional associations including the ADA, FDI and ADEA. Having authored more than 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals, Lois serves on several journal and organisational boards.

Prof. Fernando Hugo

Fernando is an Associate Professor in Dental Public Health at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil, with a background in Epidemiology and Global Health. His research has resulted in more than 150 articles published in peer reviewed journals. Fernando has been an advocate for the incorporation of Oral Health Care within Universal Health Care Systems.

Dr. Barbora Sufliarsky

After volunteering in Africa, which she describes as “a humbling experience”, Boa conducts preventive projects as president of the Slovak Association of Dental Students, while continuing her oral & maxillofacial surgery studies at Comenius University in Bratislava.

Prof. Birgitta Kohler

Birgitta is Professor emeriti in Cariology at the Institute of Cariology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, which means she has researched, educated and prevented tooth decay for most of her career -but not just from an ivory tower, as she currently directs a project in Burkina Faso in West Africa.

Dr. Christian Coachman

In addition to private dental practice in Sao Paulo, Christian founded Digital Smile Design, and spends most of his time sharing his innovative concepts in smile design, aesthetic dentistry, and oral rehabilitation, with dentists all around the world.

Jay A Miller DDS

Dr. Miller is a general dentist in Freehold New Jersey. His private practice makes extensive use of dental high technologies such as CEREC and a CBCT for guided implant surgeries. However, his real passion is traveling around the world to communities in need to set up and staff free dental clinics. He believes dentistry is the perfect profession for anyone who wants to find a way to give back and make the world a better place.

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Asha Kamble

Director, Humble Smile Foundation India

Nipun Kaushik

Director, Humble Smile Foundation India

A National Law University alumnus, Nipun has leadership roles in various Indian grassroots NGOs. His passion is provoking students to translate ideas into action, particularly focusing on legal, strategic and functional aspects of environmental conservation.

Mohamad Shafiq Shah

Director, Humble Smile Foundation India

In addition to practicing and lecturing in Criminal, Family and Cyber Law in Mumbai, advocate M. S. Shah has been providing free legal consultation to the unreachable sector of society who want justice but cannot afford expensive legal solutions.

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Dr. Darren Weiss

After 22 years as a clinician in private dentistry in Australia and Israel, and a few more years as a corporate oral health promotion consultant, Darren now directs all his efforts towards maximal impact on global disease.

Leoni Groot

With an academic background in Conflict Studies & Human Rights in the Netherlands, Leoni has worked in non-profit organisations in the Middle East.

Board of Directors

HUMBLE SMILE FOUNDATION – GLOBAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

HUMBLE SMILE FOUNDATION – GLOBAL ADVISORY COMMITEE

HUMBLE SMILE FOUNDATION INDIA - BOARD

HUMBLE SMILE FOUNDATION INDIA – ADVISORY COMMITTEE

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