UCC Academic heads Task Force on oral health financing in Malaysia
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UCC Academic heads Task Force on oral health financing in Malaysia
30.06.2010

Dr Noel Woods, Centre for Policy Studies, paid a visit to Malaysia recently, where he headed a Ministry of Health Task Force on the financing of oral health care.

Malaysia is in the process of introducing Social Health Insurance to finance health care under their policy document 1Care for 1Malaysia. Dr Woods headed a Task Force that included Professor Raja Latifah Jallaludin, University of Malaya, Dato’ Dr Norain Abu Talib, Principal Director of Oral Health and Dr Khairiyah binti Abd Muttalib, Ministry of Health, Malaysia. The Task Force will oversee the development of a health system where the costs of care are transferred via social insurance to state funded health care.

During the visit, Dr Woods initiated a research collaboration with Professor Raja Latifah Jallaludin, University of Malaya, and it is expected that a student from the University of Malaya will commence a PhD in UCC in 2012 under the direction of Dr Woods and Professor Helen Whelton, Department of Oral Health and Development.

During his visit to Malaysia, Dr Woods was a guest of the Irish Ambassador, His Excellency Eugene Hutchinson and his wife Edele at the Irish Embassy in Kuala Lumpur.

Picture: (back row L-R) Professor Atiya Ab Sallam, Dean Faculty of Medicine, SEGi University College, Kota Damansara, His Excellency Eugene Hutchinson, (Irish Ambassador, Malaysia), Dr Noel Woods, Centre for Policy Studies, UCC,  Professor Muhammad Awang, Vice Chancellor SEGi University.  (Front row L-R) Professor Raja Latifah Jallaludin, University of Malaya, Dato’ Dr Norain Abu Talib, Principal Director of Oral Health and Edele Hutchinson.

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