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Robert Schroth
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Latest papers
Healthy Smile, Happy Child: partnering with Manitoba First Nations and Metis communities for better early childhood oral health.
AlterNative (Auckland, N.Z. : 2005) · 2021
Women's economic empowerment, participation in decision-making and exposure to violence as risk indicators for early childhood caries.
BMC oral health · 2020
Understanding the post-graduate motivations of our dental students.
Journal (Canadian Dental Association) · 2011
Latest funding
- $1,150,000
Public Health Approaches to Improve Access to Oral Health Care and Oral Health Status for Young Children in Canada
CIHR · 2023 · Nominated PI
- $1,319,625
Oral mycobiome and caries risk in young Indigenous children in Manitoba
CIHR · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $4,907,350
Increasing capacity for Maternal and PAediatric Clinical Trials (IMPACT) in Canada
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
4 publications.
Healthy Smile, Happy Child: partnering with Manitoba First Nations and Metis communities for better early childhood oral health.
Kyoon-Achan G, Schroth R, DeMaré D, Sturym M, Sanguins J, Chartrand F, Campbell R, Edwards J, Lavoie J, Moffatt M
Women's economic empowerment, participation in decision-making and exposure to violence as risk indicators for early childhood caries.
Folayan MO, El Tantawi M, Vukovic A, Schroth R, Gaffar B, Al-Batayneh OB, Amalia R, Arheiam A, Obiyan M, Daryanavard H, Early Childhood Caries Advocacy Group
Understanding the post-graduate motivations of our dental students.
Stein Z, Schönwetter D, Schroth R, Wiltshire W
Early childhood caries among Hutterite preschool children in Manitoba, Canada.
Schroth R, Dahl P, Haque M, Kliewer E
Public Health Approaches to Improve Access to Oral Health Care and Oral Health Status for Young Children in Canada
Principal investigators: Schroth, Robert J
Keywords: Access To Care; Canada Dental Benefit; Caries Risk Assessment; Dental Public Health; Early Childhood; Early Childhood Caries; Indigenous Children; Oral Health; Pediatric Oral Health; Public Health Interventions
Oral mycobiome and caries risk in young Indigenous children in Manitoba
Principal investigators: Chelikani, Prashen V; Campbell, Rhonda; Chartrand, Frances; Decaire, Elizabeth; Kloss, Olena; Schroth, Robert J; Yerex, Katherine
Keywords: Early Childhood Caries; Oral Fungi
Increasing capacity for Maternal and PAediatric Clinical Trials (IMPACT) in Canada
Principal investigators: Kelly, Lauren; Campbell-Yeo, Marsha L; Jibb, Lindsay; King, Alexandra; King, Malcolm; Klassen, Terry P; Lacaze-Masmonteil, Thierry; Murthy, Srinivas; Poonai, Naveen; Samuel, Susan M
Keywords: Child Health; Clinical Trials; Mentorship; Pregnancy; Training
Increasing capacity for Maternal and PAediatric Clinical Trials (IMPACT) in Canada
Principal investigators: Kelly, Lauren; Campbell-Yeo, Marsha L; Jibb, Lindsay; King, Alexandra; King, Malcolm; Klassen, Terry P; Lacaze-Masmonteil, Thierry; Murthy, Srinivas; Poonai, Naveen; Samuel, Susan M
Keywords: Child Health; Clinical Trials; Mentorship; Pregnancy; Training
Oral microbiome and caries risk in young First Nations and Metis children in Manitoba
Principal investigators: Schroth, Robert J; Campbell, Rhonda; Chelikani, Prashen V; Sanguins, Julianne; Yerex, Katherine
Keywords: Early Childhood Caries; First Nations Children; Infants And Preschoolers; Metis Children; Oral Microbiome
Working together to implement novel, culturally informed early childhood oral health interventions for young First Nations and Metis children in Manitoba
Principal investigators: Schroth, Robert J; Campbell, Rhonda; Chartrand, Frances; Yerex, Katherine
Keywords: Caries Risk Assessment; Community Development; Community Engagement; Community-Based Participatory Research; Early Childhood Caries; First Nations; Interprofessional Approach; Metis; Oral Health; Oral Health Promotion
Role of taste signaling and host-microbial interactions on caries risk in young children
Principal investigators: Chelikani, Prashen V; Schroth, Robert J
Keywords: Cariogenic Bacteria; Oral Health; Taste Receptors
The Prairie Indigenous Knowledge Exchange Network (PIKE-Net)
Principal investigators: Lavoie, Josée G; Boyer, Yvonne M; Cidro, Jaime; Clark, Wayne; Craft, Aimée E; Driedger, S. Michelle; Lavallee, Barry; Young, Doris
Keywords: Determinants Of Health; Health; Indigenous; Mentorship; Well-Being
The Prairie Indigenous Knowledge Exchange Network (PIKE-Net)
Principal investigators: Lavoie, Josée G; Boyer, Yvonne M; Craft, Aimée E; Driedger, S. Michelle; Lavallee, Barry; McCallum, Mary Jane L; Young, Doris
Keywords: First Nations; Health Research; Health Sciences; Mentorship; Metis And Inuit; Two-Eyed Seeing
Scaling up the Healthy Smile Happy Child initiative: tailoring and enhancing a community development approach to improve early childhood oral health for First Nations and Metis children
Principal investigators: Schroth, Robert J; Campbell, Rhonda; Chartrand, Frances
Keywords: Community Development; Community Engagement; Early Childhood Caries; First Nations; Metis; Oral Health
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Preventive Dental Science
- College of Community and Global Health
- Internal Medicine
- Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
- Oral Biology
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