Dr. Brittany Seymour is an Assistant Professor at Harvard School of Dental Medicine. She holds a full-time appointment in the Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology and the Office of Global and Community Health. Dr. Seymour is a curriculum development expert and has substantial experience in dissemination science. She assists with the development of the training and technical assistance modules and the plan for dissemination of the materials beyond the learning community.

Her overall research focus is in interdisciplinary approaches for oral health improvement at the global level through education, prevention, policy, and health promotion. She has dozens of publications related to curriculum development, and has presented her curriculum and education work at numerous conferences. She has given nearly two dozen presentations for her work in dissemination science, including the past two years at the NIH sponsored Annual Dissemination and Implementation Science conference in Washington DC, the CDC’s National Vaccine Conference in Atlanta, and the ADA’s 70th Anniversary Symposium on Fluoridation in Chicago. She is the Director of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health’s Global Oral Health Interest Group and was a contributing author to the FDI World Dental Federation’s Oral Health Atlas 2nd Edition. She has received several education grants, including the President’s Innovation Fund for International Experiences to develop student research fellowships, a Global Health Education Development grant from the Harvard Global Health Institute, and was the PI for the oral health planning and implementation phase of the Rwanda Human Resources for Health Program, where she assisted in starting the first Bachelors of Dental Science program in the country.