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Cand. odont. (2006), PhD. (2010), odont. dr. (2018)
Nørre Allé 20
2200 København N
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My research focus is the patient perspective and subjects derived from this including effect of health care systems and the individual and public benefit of oral prevention and treatment. It is about:
I use both quantitative and qualitative research methods and have performed many clinical studies but also population studies, register-based studies, and interviews are used to describe the societal and social aspects of odontology.
I am leading research projects independently and in collaboration with others and my focus is on interdisciplinary collaborations using my robust network of research collaborators. The goal with this is to make the research as relevant as possible with greatest quality and impact. I have experience in all parts and all phases of research and project management. This includes applying and getting funds for projects and supervising PhD students, research assistants, post doc, assistant professors, and pre-graduate researchers.
Selected current research projects:
1. Lifelong Oral Health
The Lifelong Oral Health project is a co-creation project with the aim of improving the oral health of elderly people in vulnerable situations. The project is carried out in collaboration with the Center for Humanistic Health Research (CoRe), Greve and Frederiksberg Municipality and VIVE. The project creates knowledge that can be used by municipalities and other stakeholders to develop and implement the most relevant efforts to ensure good oral health among older people. The project website can be found here: Sund mund hele livet – Københavns Universitet (ku.dk)
2. Use and effect of a subsidy scheme for dental treatment among people in vulnerable situations
The project examines the use and effect of a municipally administered subsidy scheme for unemployed people in vulnerable situations through questionnaires, registers and interviews. The project is both descriptive and contains tests of an effort. The findings from the project can be used by decision makers for policy making and other stakeholders to improve access to dental care for people in vulnerable situations and thus reduce inequality in oral health.
3. Improved oral health in the middle-aged and elderly
The goal of the project is to identify factors that can be used as intervention targets to ensure good oral health among middle-aged and older Danes. This is done by utilizing data from the Copenhagen Aging and Midlife Biobank (CAMB). Knowledge from the project can lead to fewer comorbidities and reduce the societal costs related to poor oral health. The project will therefore be of interest to e.g. decision makers and various NGOs.
4. Challenging the notion of coherency in care pathways for vulnerable groups
The project is a qualitative project carried out in collaboration with the National Institute of Public Health and Høje Taastrup Municipality. The aim is to describe the pathways unemployed people in vulnerable situations go through from the perspective of both the citizen and the employees. This knowledge can be used to organize the most relevant pathways for citizens and thus help them further in life, incl. connection to the labor market.
For past projects/studies, please see my publication list.
I am course director of courses in community dentistry, large interdisciplinary courses in comprehensive dentistry, and the introduction course for new dental students. I teach and supervise in most areas within community dentistry, including social odontology, communication and decision making as well as subjects within oral rehabilitation and comprehensive dentistry incl. treatment planning. I have knowledge on the general studies and curriculum from work in the study board and experience in constructing smaller and larger courses and have taught all types of session on many different levels including supervising students doing their master’s theses. My style is open and involving with strong focus on maximizing the students’ learning.
For more details on my teaching experience and philosophy please ask for my teaching portfolio.
EDUCATION
Cand. odont (2006), PhD (2010), odont. dr. (2018)
TIMELINE FOR PROFESSIONAL CAREER
2019- |
Research Section Leader |
Department of Odontology, UCPH |
2014- |
Associate Professor |
Department of Odontology, UCPH |
2010- 2014 |
Assistant Professor |
Department of Odontology, UCPH |
2007-2010 |
PhD student |
Department of Odontology, UCPH |
2006-2017 |
Dental practitioner |
Private clinics and clinic for special prosthodontics |
2004-2005 |
Pre-graduate researcher |
Department of Odontology, UCPH |
LEADING HIGH-IMPACT RESEARCH
I have led research projects for 17 years, which in combination with UCPH courses on research leading (2018, 2020), has given me a clear view on my criteria for success: value for the society and the citizens that should benefit from it. This has made me the leading Danish expert and a requested international expert in patient-focused dentistry. This has made me a requested opponent nationally and internationally and led to policy making (Act on unpaid dental care for the most socially disadvantaged citizens), participation in NGOs, authority, and ministerial working groups, and resulted in the Zendium Research Award 2021.
I have experience and success in all phases of research and project management and my funding the last 5 years is roughly DKK 25 million. I have prior supervised 46 Masters, 4 pre-graduate researchers, 3 PhD students and 1 post doc. Currently, I supervise 4 PhD students (1 as co-PI). As research section leader I am leading 18 researchers in 5 research groups from PhD level to full professors.
POSITIONS OF TRUST (SELECTED)
2008-2015 |
Vice-president and president |
Young Scientist Club Odontology, UCPH |
2014-2018 |
President |
Danish Society of Oral Rehabilitation |
2013-2019 |
Alternate member study board |
Department of Odontology, University of Copenhagen |
2014-2019 |
Member of PhD study board |
Faculty of Health Science, UCPH |
2016-2019 |
PhD coordinator |
Department of Odontology, University of Copenhagen |
2018-2019 |
Member executive board |
Graduate Programme for Oral Sciences, Forensic Medicine and Bioanthropology |
2018-2019 |
Member research council |
Department of Odontology, University of Copenhagen |
2018- |
Member advisory board |
Department of Dentistry and Oral Health, Aarhus University |
2019- |
Member of management |
Department of Odontology, UCPH |
2019- |
Member advisory board |
The Research Unit for General Practice, UCPH |
2019- |
Member of management board |
Copenhagen Aging and Midlife Biobank (CAMB) |
2018 |
Member of working group |
The Council for Socially Disadvantaged |
2020- |
Member of working groups |
The Ministry of Health |
2020- |
Member Scientific Board |
Danish Dental Journal |
2021- |
Board member |
Ansatte Tandlægers Organisations Forskningsfond |
2023- |
Member of working group |
Danish Dental Association |
2024- |
Member |
Zendium Prize Committee |
CURRENT RELEVANT AND MAJOR RESEARCH PROJECTS AND FUNDING (IN DKK)
2018- |
Public benefit of oral health promotion in citizens on cash benefit (PI) |
1.5 million (Faculty of Health Science, UCPH) 753,796 (Regional Funds for Joint Measure) 156,300 (Danish Dental Associations) |
2020- |
Effect of municipal subsidy for health services in socially vulnerable citizens (PI) |
39,000 (Danish Dental Association) 250,000 (Gerda og Aage Haench’ Fund) 426,520 (Faculty of Health Science, UCPH) |
2020- |
Oral health, self-efficacy, health literacy, and quality of life in Saudi Arabian adolescents (PI) |
1.5 million (PhD stipend Muneera Alzeer given by King Saud University) |
2020- |
Oral health and quality of life in patients with Parkinson’s disease (co-PI) |
1.5 million (PhD stipend Sara Baram given by DO, UCPH) 85,000 (Parkinsonforeningen) |
2021- |
Health literacy interventions for vulnerable unemployed persons (PI) |
927.595 (Regional funds for prevention) 662.446 (Novo Nordisk Foundation) |
2021- |
Sund Mund Hele Livet. Improving the oral health in frail elderly persons (PI) |
5 million (Health insurance ”danmark”) 3,634,002 (Velux Foundation) 140,000 (Danish Dental Associations) 500,000 (Faculty of Health Science, UCPH) |
2021- |
Oral health in immigrants (PI) |
72,003 (Danish Dental Associations) |
2022- |
Deliberative improvement of oral care quality (DELIVER) (partner) |
EU-HORIZON-HLTH-2021-CARE-05. Full project: 37.6 million, Danish part: 2.3 million. |
2023- |
Challenging the notion of coherency in care pathways for vulnerable groups (co-PI) |
2.7 million from Novo Nordisk Foundation |
2024- |
Improved oral health in middle aged and aged populations (PI) |
1.7 million (DO, UCPH)
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2024- |
Prediction of complication in oral surgery (Pre-Com) (PI) |
2.9 million (Specialist Clinics Zealand) |
Most of my projects involves participatory research and addresses vulnerable patients. My projects most often combine quantitative and qualitative methods to yield the most relevant results with highest impact.
PUBLICATIONS WITH HIGH STANDARDS
My H-index is 12 and my publication list includes 34 published peer-reviewed international articles of which 20 are in the first quartile of their category according to the Journal citation reports in Web of Science. In addition, I have published 8 nationally peer-reviewed articles, 4 book chapters, 2 theses, and 2 reports. See publication list or visit https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8656-0292 for details.
STRONG COMMUNICATOR
I have considerable experience as communicator, which has given me self-assurance and I find my communicative abilities very strong. I have with compliment communicated my research and knowledge at many international conferences and as invited speaker at/for:
I have further given statements to several reporters from newspapers, magazines, radio, and television programs and written debate letters for newspapers. In 2023 I had 29 citations in written media only. An example can be seen here: ”Stærkt bekymrende” og ”alarmerende”: Mange skrøbelige ældre kommer ikke til tandlæge | Kristeligt Dagblad (kristeligt-dagblad.dk). Further, I feature as an expert in a tv-program and podcast (2022). A course in media training (2015) held by the Danish Dental Association has further helped me understand media and how to use the media in the most suitable way. My communication has further improved as a result of massive under- and post-graduate teaching in the last 17 years.
ROBUST NETWORK
My network includes many different professionals including public health researchers, statisticians, medical doctors, economists, practicing clinicians, anthropologists, and psychologists. In the project “Sund Mund Hele Livet” I for instance collaborate with:
Examples of other institutions I collaborate with in other projects are:
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Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Report chapter › Communication
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Esben Boeskov Øzhayat (Other)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Esben Boeskov Øzhayat (Other)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Esben Boeskov Øzhayat (Other)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Esben Boeskov Øzhayat (Other)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Esben Boeskov Øzhayat (Other)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Esben Boeskov Øzhayat (Other)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Esben Boeskov Øzhayat (Other)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Esben Boeskov Øzhayat (Member)
Activity: Membership types › Membership in review committee
28/10/2024
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
28/10/2024
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
27/08/2024
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
01/08/2024
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
17/04/2024
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
20/03/2024
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
05/03/2024
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
Øzhayat, Esben Boeskov (Recipient), 2021
Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions