Dr Wael Sabbah

Dr Sabbah is a Senior Lecturer of Dental Public at the Health Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, King’s College London (KCL) and is currently Course Lead for the MSc in Dental Public Health programme.  

Dr Sabbah joined KCL as a Senior Lecturer in Dental Public Health in October 2013.  He moved to London from Portland, Oregon, USA, where he was employed as an Associate Professor of Community Dentistry in Oregon Health & Science University.

Dr Sabbah obtained his PhD degree from University College London (UCL) in 2007 and was employed as a Research Fellow in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at UCL, after completing his PhD.  He finished his speciality training program in Dental Public Health at the University of Toronto, Canada, where he obtained a Diploma in Dental Public Health and MSc degree.  His BDS degree was obtained from University of Alexandria, Egypt.

He has considerable experience in oral epidemiology, biostatistics, research methods and health services research.  Major areas of research interest include social epidemiology, inequalities in oral and general health, inequalities in the provision of oral health services, the relationship between oral and general health and evidence-based reviews of dental interventions.  He has been involved in writing a number of research grants to the NIH (USA), ESRC (UK), and NHS (UK).  He has several publications in peer reviewed international journals.  He is in editorial boards in a number of international journals.  Dr Sabbah had supervised more than 30 MSc and PhD students in UK and USA universities.