Professor Cynthia Pine CBE

Pro Vice-Chancellor International and Dean of the College of Health and Social Care
 
Professor Cynthia Pine CBE is Pro Vice-Chancellor International and Dean of the College of Health and Social Care and Honorary Consultant in Dental Public Health at NHS Salford. Cynthia joined the University of Salford in 2008 from the University of Liverpool where she had been Dean of Dental Studies from 2003. She was the first woman in the UK to be appointed a dental dean since the first Dental Schools were established in 1859. She is an international public health researcher with over 80 refereed journal papers, over £2m research funding awarded; book chapters author and editor of the textbook, Community Oral Health.

From her position as a Visiting Professor at the University of Liverpool, Cynthia is the Director of the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Research in Oral Health in Deprived Communities. She leads a co-operative network between the two universities and NHS Salford delivering a number of linked research projects. Cynthia was the principal investigator of a major international collaborative study in childhood dental caries across 17 countries funded by the National Institute for Dento-Craniofacial Research, NIDCR of the National Institutes of Health, NIH, USA, where she was also a Visiting Research Fellow. She is the Founding President of the European Association for Dental Public Health with members in 26 countries. She has given over 60 invited lectures including at Harvard and the Karolinska. She has served as President of the European Association for Caries Research and President of the Cariology Group of the International Association for Dental Research.

Cynthia was appointed by the Medical Academy of Finland to be Vice-Chair of the International Committee reviewing Odontological Research; and was a member of the RAE2008 Panel for Dentistry. Cynthia was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in England in 2004; and recognised by a Special Merit Award by the American Association for Public Health Dentistry. Cynthia was honoured by the government of Guyana, her country of birth, and named “Outstanding Guyanese of the Year” in 2006 and, in the same year, she was appointed by the Queen, Commander of the British Empire, CBE, “For Services to Dentistry”.