Many of the public health topics addressed by the Community Guide are broad in scope and require multidisciplinary solutions. For this reason, it is important that the systematic reviews are conducted by diverse teams. Three teams work on each systematic review:

• Coordination Team – directs all phases of the design, execution, analysis, and communication of the review. This team is made up of individuals with methodological or subject matter experience, and includes the lead scientist for the review as well as at least one member of the Task Force.
• Consultation team – a senior advisory team made up of multidisciplinary experts, advises the coordinating team on all phases of the systematic review.
• Abstraction team – reviews and systematically extracts information from the relevant research literature using standardized Community Guide abstraction forms.
  

Coordination Team

Task Force Member
Caswell A. Evans, Jr., DDS MPH
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, Georgia
Office of the Director
Benedict I. Truman, MD, MPH

Guide Staff Members
Iddrisu Sulemana, MPH, MA

Epidemiology Program Office
Division of Prevention Research and Analytic Methods
Vilma G. Carande-Kulis, MS, PhD

National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Division of Oral Health
Barbara F. Gooch, DMD, MPH
Susan O. Griffin, PhD

National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
Alice M. Horowitz, PhD

Subject Matter Experts
Helen C. Gift, PhD
Brevard College
Brevard, North Carolina

Consultation Team

Myron Allukian, Jr., D.D.S., M.P.H.
Boston Public Health Commission
Boston, Massachusetts

Eugenio Beltran, D.M.D., Dr.P.H.
Division of Oral Health, CDC

Aljernon Bolden, D.M.D., M.P.H.
Boston University, Goldman School of Dental Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts

Maria Teresa Canto, D.D.S., M.P.H.
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland

Timothy R. Collins, D.D.S., M.P.H.
Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
Los Angeles, California

Stephen B. Corbin, D.D.S., M.P.H.
Special Olympics, Inc.
Washington, DC

Teresa A. Dolan, D.D.S., M.P.H.
University of Florida College of Dentistry
Gainesville, Florida

Thomas F. Drury, Ph.D.
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland

Harold Goodman, D.D.S., M.P.H.
Office of Oral Health, State of Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Baltimore, Maryland

Larry Hill, D.D.S., M.P.H.
Cincinnati Health Department
Cincinnati, Ohio

Lori Hutwagner, M.S.
Division of Public Health Surveillance and Informatics
Epidemiology Program Office, CDC
Atlanta, Georgia

Amid I. Ismail, B.D.S., M.P.H., Dr.P.H.
University of Michigan School of Dentistry
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Robert Isman, D.D.S., M.P.H.
Office of Medi-Cal Dental Services
California Department of Health Services
Sacramento, California

William Kohn, D.D.S., M.P.H.
Division of Oral Health, CDC
Atlanta, Georgia

Jayanth Kumar, D.D.S., M.P.H.
New York State Health Department
Albany, New York

Raymond A. Kuthy, D.D.S., M.P.H.
University of Iowa College of Dentistry
Iowa City, Iowa

Corinne E. Miller, D.D.S., Ph.D.
Michigan Department of Community Health
Lansing, Michigan

R. Gary Rozier, D.D.S., M.P.H.
School of Public Health, University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Randy H. Schwartz, M.S.P.H.
Department of Human Services, Bureau of Health
Augusta, Maine (Now affiliated with the American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia)

Robert Selwitz, D.D.S., M.P.H.
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland

Mark Siegal, D.D.S., M.P.H.
Bureau of Oral Health Services, Ohio State Health Department
Columbus, Ohio

Janet Stansell, M.L.M.,
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC
Atlanta, Georgia

Scott L. Tomar, D.M.D., Dr.P.H.
University of Florida College of Dentistry
Gainesville, Florida

Steven Uranga McKane, D.M.D., M.P.H.
SUM Consulting
West Hills, California

B. Alex White, D.D.S., Dr.P.H.
Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research
Portland, Oregon.

Abstraction Team

Dionne Johnson, DDS, MPH
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY

Kim Johnson, DDS, MPH
Division of Oral Health, CDC
Atlanta, GA

Virginia Noland, PhD, MPH
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL

Managing Editor
Kate W. Harris, B.A.