ARC - Speaker Invitation: OHLID Webinar 3: “Why Oral Health Matters for Behavioural Science: The Toothbrushing Boost Toolbox”

This session is anchored to our newly accepted paper in Frontiers in Public Health, “The Toothbrushing Boost Toolbox: Competence-Building Behavioural Science for Oral Health” (Anand, Claassen, Riedy, Hertwig, 2026) and will be its first public discussion. Link: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2026.1834743/full

The webinar aims to bring together voices from behavioural science, dental public health, and policy to explore what this work means for practice, education, and systems change worldwide in the field of oral health.

Please register for the session yourself using the link below — it helps us with attendance tracking and will send you the calendar invite and Zoom access details: Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Jxp49CVXQwqtt_0ETNWSwA

Time (CET) 15:00–15:05 – Segment: Opening
Speaker: Shalya Anand
Content: Why this webinar, motivation behind this paper, oral health literacy as a boost

Time (CET) 15:05–15:20 – Segment: 1
Speaker: Raman Preet
Content: Burden of oral disease & Policy landscape—where behavioural science has, and hasn’t, entered oral health. Current practices and impact. Is oral health literacy part of global agenda

Time (CET) 15:20–15:35 – Segment: 2
Speaker: Maria Almudena Claassen (Postdoc from Adaptive Rationality)
Content: Inside the toolbox—design, evidence, boosts vs. nudges, and why competence matters for long-term adherence. Explain the paper till call to action

Time (CET) 15:35–15:50 – Segment: 3
Speaker: Christine Riedy
Content: Behavioral science in oral health, landscape, what are the barriers and facilitators, Box 1; Call to action

Time (CET) 15:50–16:05 – Segment: 4
Speaker: Manu Mathur
Content: Implementation realities—what holds up in real-world practice, and policy engagement, Scaling and policy uptake — pilot to system-level adoption, with an India/LMIC lens

Time (CET) 16:05–16:15 – Segment: 5
Speaker: Sheila Khawaja
Content: Clear communication—making the toolbox understandable to every family

Time (CET) 16:15–16:30 – Segment: Close
Speaker: All speakers
Content: Panel question, audience Q&A, and close