Joan is an accomplished health professional with experience in community health advocacy, leadership and forging partnerships that deliver genuine results. Joan has in-depth knowledge of the nonprofit sector including Board of Director fiduciary responsibilities, cultivating stakeholder relationships, liaison activity, and grant management. An advanced practice clinician with the Certified Public Health Dental Hygienist and Certified Dementia Practitioner credentials, Joan established an agency model to bring oral health primary prevention services to the homebound through a Capstone project at the UNH College of Professional Studies. She currently is a part-time lecturer on oral health policy and epidemiology, and a project partner with the HRSA Catalyzing Oral Health Workforce-Rural Track residency program at Harvard School of Dental Medicine. Joan was a member of a research team from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Science MSDH program, whose published research is cited in the 2021 U. S. Surgeon General’s Report on Oral Health: “Access to Preventive Oral Health Services for Homebound Populations: A pilot program”. Joan served as President of the NHDHA in 1995-6, and 2008-9 and on the Board of Directors of the American Dental Hygienists Association from 2011 to 2015. She also served the first term of the Dental Hygienists’ Committee of the New Hampshire Board of Dental Examiners. With this unique experience at the local, state and national levels of the profession of dental hygiene, Joan brings a valued perspective to Harvard's OHPE Faculty.