Dr. Hoda M Abdellatif’s career in full-time dental education began following her graduate studies in the U.S. where she received her master's and doctorate degrees in Dental Public Health/Oral Epidemiology from the University of Michigan. She also received training in evidence-based health care from Oxford University in the UK. In her career as a full-time faculty member, she enjoyed the privilege of teaching in both the pre-doctoral and doctoral programs and developed and taught many courses in the field of public health at both the DDS and masters levels. She assisted in introducing the concept of evidence-based dentistry (EBD) at the TAMU College of Dentistry. She has been crucial in developing and implementing EBD courses that have become part of the required curricula. She collaborated in the redesigning, planning, and implementation of several courses in the predoctoral and doctoral programs in the Public Health Sciences Department. In this area of research, she is best characterized as an oral epidemiologist with a particular interest in preventive dentistry, dentistry for the underserved, alternative dental delivery care systems, and public health policy.