R. Gary Rozier

Richard Gary Rozier was a longtime professor in the Gillings School of Global Public Health's Department of Health Policy and Management. He led the development of multiple population-based dental health studies, including "Into the Mouths of Babes", a program launched in 2000 in North Carolina to improve the oral health of young, low-income children in the state. The program led to a significant increase in the number of children under four who receive preventive dental care, according to an April 2014 issue of the journal Pediatrics. Rozier, who received his DDS and MPH degrees from UNC-Chapel Hill, has authored more than 150 scientific publications.

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• In memoriam
• Faculty profile, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
  Dr. Rozier is an Emeritus Professor with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management. He is a past president of the American Association of Public Health Dentistry and the American Board of Dental Public Health, and has served as President of the Behavioral Sciences and Health Services Research Group of the International Association for Dental Research. He is a past editor of the Journal of Public Health Dentistry. [Courtesy of the Internet Archive.]
• North Carolina oral health initiative celebrates 25 year anniversary
  James O'Hara, Daily Tar Heel, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025. A North Carolina initiative to decrease childhood tooth decay, which became the blueprint for similar programs nationwide, just turned 25 years old. The Into the Mouths of Babes Program allows medical providers to perform preventative oral health treatments — including fluoride applications and check-ups — to children under the age of three and a half insured by N.C. Medicaid.
• John P. Rossetti Community Oral Health Impact Award 2021 Recipient
  American Association for Community Dental Programs. Throughout his 44-year career in dental public health, Dr. R. Gary Rozier became known as a cutting-edge researcher, consultant, and educator.

• First in the Nation: Eighty Years of Graduate Dental Public Health Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1936–2016
  R. Gary Rozier, Adams School of Dentistry. Since its early teaching activity in 1936, the North Carolina Dental Public Health program has had an outstanding 80-year history that is summarized into five themes. It has served as a key resource for training the dentists in public health, which has benefited the state of North Carolina.
  
  
• 225 years of Tar Heels: Richard Gary Rozier
  University Communications, Wednesday, October 24th, 2018. Rozier has spent his career working to improve the oral health of young, low-income children in the North Carolina.