Dr Nigel Carter OBE has been Chief Executive of the Oral Health Foundation for more than 20 years.

A previous chairman and long-term trustee of the charity, Dr Nigel Carter OBE has a keen interest in public health and experience in health promotion. 

Dr Carter has been a dentist for more than four decades and started his career as a general dental practitioner with a mixed NHS and private practice based in Birmingham.

The Oral Health Foundation’s role as co-ordinator of numerous national campaigns, including Mouth Cancer Action Month, involves Dr Carter working with health departments of all four UK countries as well as representatives of major health, cancer, dental and medical organisations at the highest level. 

As immediate past chair of the Royal Society for Public Health, Dr Carter is involved in liaison and co-operation between the major public health bodies, Faculty of Public Health and Register of Public Health Specialists and has broad interests in public health and the social determinants of heath.

Dr Carter is an experienced broadcaster and media spokesman giving hundreds of interviews per year on television, radio and to the print media.

In 2012, Dr Carter was honoured with an OBE for Services to Dentistry and Dental Health in the Queen’s Jubilee honours.

Dr Carter is the immediate past chairman of the Platform for Better Oral Health in Europe, a lobby group based in Brussels liaising with European parliamentarians and the European Commission. The group, of which the Oral Health Foundation is a member, aims to improve oral health across Europe and reduce inequalities.

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ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor of Dental Surgery University of Birmingham 1975

Licentiate in Dental Surgery of Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1975

 

WORK HISTORY
1975-1997	General Dental Practitioner with mixed NHS and Private Practice.
1983 – 2004	Principal and Managing Director India House Training and Recruitment Ltd delivering training in dental nursing, veterinary nursing, dental technology under Youth Training organisations across the West and East Midlands.
1997 to date	Chief Executive Oral Health Foundation (previously British Dental Health Foundation).

 

COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS
1978 - 1997	Council Member British Dental Health Foundation
1980 - 1997	Trustee Royal Society for the Promotion of Health
1987 - 1989	Chairman British Dental Health Foundation
1983 - 1985	Member Sandwell Local Dental Committee
1993 - 1997	Member South Birmingham District Dental Advisory Committee
1987 - 1995	Associate member General Dental Council Oral Health Committee
1994	Member Oral Health Education Co-ordinating Body
1990 - 1995	Chairman Birmingham Health and Care Compact
1984 - 1992	Committee member British Dental Migraine study group
1986 - 1988	Secretary British Dental Migraine Study Group
2001- 2008	Editorial Board Member NHS Direct Online
2003 - 2007	Trustee Royal Society for the Promotion of Health
2004 - 2007	Treasurer Royal Society for the Promotion of Health
2007 - 2019	Trustee and Treasurer of the Royal Society for Public Heath
2004 - 2007	Member Department of Health Dental Smoking Cessation Group
2005 - 2010	Member Faculty of General Dental Practice at Royal College of Surgeons DCP Advisory Group
2013 - date	Member of the Platform for Better Oral Health in Europe
2017 - 2019	Chair Platform for Better Oral Health in Europe
2019 - 2022	Chair Royal Society of Public Health