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Archana Pradhan

Associate Professor

Faculty of Medicine and Health

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  • Associate Professor
    Faculty of Medicine and Health

SERVICE & LEADERSHIP SUMMARy

  1. AHPRA Advisory Panel - Dental Specialist Review 2025-2027
  2. Dental Board of Australia: Approved member for assessing qualifications for specialist registration from overseas trained dental specialists, 2016–
  3. Equivalence Assessment Panel of the Dental Board of Australia, 2025-2027
  4. Member of Oral Health Community of Practice, established by National Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health (NCEID), 2025–
  5. Oral Health working group and CESPHN’s Clinical Council Member, 2025–
  6. Member of the Dental Clinical Advisory Committee, Department of Health and Aged Care, 2023

SERVICE & LEADERSHIP

  • GRANTS (OTHER)
    Improving the Health Outcomes of People with Intellectual Disability Grant Opportunity
    11 Jun 2025 - 11 Jan 2030
    Australia’s first co-created workforce model to advance preventive oral healthcare for people with intellectual disability. This grant represents a global collaboration between university partners (Western Sydney, Western Australia, Deakin, Australian National, LaTrobe, Notre Dame, Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), and Ghent (Belgium)) and disability service partners including Northcott, Sylvanvale, Aruma, Greystanes, NADO, and NWDS.
  • GRANTS (OTHER)
    Philanthropic grant
    2 May 2025 - 31 Dec 2028
    Digital dentures: the future for aged-care residents
  • GRANTS (OTHER)
    2024/5 Mars-Wrigley Foundation and ADA Dental Health Foundation Healthier Smiles Grant
    12 Jul 2024 - 31 Mar 2025
    Digital dentures for residents in Residential Aged Care Facilities: A feasibility study
  • FELLOWSHIP
    International College of Dentists, Fellow
    1 Jan 2020
  • FELLOWSHIP
    Pierre Fauchard Academy, Fellow
    1 Jan 2019
  • AWARDS AND PRIZES
    Queensland Health Metro North Oral Health Services Staff Excellence Awards: Patient focus
    1 Jan 2019
  • FELLOWSHIP
    Special Care Dentistry Association (USA), Fellow
    1 Jan 2015
  • AWARDS AND PRIZES
    Faculty of Health Sciences Divisional Scholarship, The University of Adelaide
    1 Jan 2007
  • AWARDS AND PRIZES
    ADRF Colin Cormie Scholarship; International Program's Honours Merit Scholarship
    1 Jan 1997
  • AWARDS AND PRIZES
    AusAID Equity and Merit Scholarship
    1 Jan 1996
  • MEMBERSHIP
    Australiaand New Zealand Academyof Special NeedsDentistry (ANZASND)
  • MEMBERSHIP
    Australian Dental Association
  • MEMBERSHIP
    Australian Society of Special care in Dentistry (ASSCID)
  • MEMBERSHIP
    International Association for Disability and Oral Health
  • MEMBERSHIP
    Special Care Dentistry, USA