Howard Pollick
BDS, MPH
San Francisco, California, United States
Dr. Howard Franklin Pollick, BDS, MPH is a health sciences clinical professor and former director of the accredited dental public health residency program, Department of Preventive & Restorative Dental Sciences, School of Dentistry at the University of California San Francisco. He earned his BDS from Manchester, England and his MPH from UC Berkeley.
Dr. Pollick has lectured and published extensively on the benefits and safety of community water fluoridation in California, nationally and internationally.
A diplomate of the American Board of Dental Public Health, Dr. Pollick is an American Dental Association expert spokesperson on fluoridation, a member of the ADA National Fluoridation Advisory Committee, chair of the Fluoridation Advisory Committee to the California Dental Association Foundation, and a consultant to the California Department of Public Health.
He is the recipient of the 2010 Fluoridation Special Merit Award from the Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors, the 2015 recipient of the UCSF Chancellor’s Award for Public Service, and the recipient of the 2017 John W. Knutson Distinguished Service Award in Dental Public Health from the American Public Health Association’s Oral Health Section.
