Noel Dickens, DMD, MPH

I am a United States Navy (USN) General Dentist, Health Science Researcher, and current Full-Time Out-Service (Non-Navy provided) Ph.D. student in Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at Yale University. My current research interests focus on oral disease, particularly oral cancers of viral etiology, and cost effectiveness analyses of various vaccination policies within the Department of Defense. From 2015 to 2018 I served as the Head of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Vice-Chair of the Institutional Review Board at the Naval Medical Research Unit – San Antonio. My department oversaw research projects that examined diseases affecting the craniofacial health of USN sailors and US marines. Educationally, I was trained in microbiological and immunological lab science during my undergraduate studies at Brigham Young University, in the epidemiology and statistics as part of my Masters of Public Health (MPH) at the University of Kentucky’s College of Public Health, and in dentistry at the University of Kentucky’s College of Dentistry. I have worked in a variety of different research labs and have experience developing project protocol, submitting proposals for funding, and managing funded projects and personnel. I have keen interest in bench to bedside research as well as research devoted to the development of novel analytical and quantitative epidemiological methodology.