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Bangkok Workshop, November 2019

A successful experience of an international workshop on Oral Health Birth Cohort Studies (OHBCS), was held in Bangkok, Thailand, in early November 2019, sponsored by The Borrow Foundation. The meeting brought together more than 15 researchers from countries as diverse such as Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Thailand, Uganda, and the USA, representing the most prominent and longest-running oral health birth cohort studies in low- middle-, and high-income countries. 

Aims: : (i) broad engagement of the global oral health researchers and health communities, to be achieved through a process of consultations; (ii) ensuring high-quality technical standards through systematic literature reviews and focused analytic work on OHBCS, (iii) performing pooled data analysis to increase sample size and consequently the statistical power of the findings, and the training of the next generation of researchers; (iv) wide dissemination of the evidence produced by the collective work and advocacy based on its recommendations. The creation of a consortium was stated in this workshop as a way to obtain many advantages from the data of this nature and the experience of the experts involved in such studies.