Dr. Noha Gomaa, DDS, MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor, Divisions of Dental Public
Health and Oral Medicine
Associate Director for Research
Scientist, Lawson for Research
Office: DSB 0071
Phone: 519.661.2111 x80915
Email: ngomaa@uwo.ca
Website: https://www.schulich.uwo.ca/societytocell/ 
Appointments
- Schulich Dentistry
- Children's Health Research Institute
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Research Cluster
- Population Oral Health
- Musculoskeletal Health, Infection and Immunity
- Dental Education and Pedagogical Research
Research Interests
- Chronic and Oral Disease Epidemiology and Prevention
- Health Equity and Access to Dental Care
- Aging
- Life-course Epidemiology
- Biopsychosocial Research
Biography
Dr. Noha Gomaa is an Assistant Professor and the Associate Director for Dentistry Research at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. Her research program centres around the impact of socioenvironmental exposures on oral diseases and related non-communicable diseases over the life-course in various populations while evaluating the multi-level impact of clinical and policy interventions that aim to improve these outcomes. Noha completed her PhD and fellowship in public health policy at the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, followed by a clinician-scientist postdoctoral fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Dr. Gomaa takes special interest in knowledge synthesis and mobilization and has previously worked with government agencies on issues of oral health care policy for marginalized populations and professionalism in dentistry. She currently serves on the National Advisory Working Group of the Office of the Chief Dental Officer of Canada and the National Dental Examining Board of Canada. She is an editorial board member for various dental journals including the Journal of Dental Research and Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, and is an active member of the International Association for Dental Research and an affiliate of the Social Exposome Research Cluster, University of British Columbia.
Teaching activities
Dr. Gomaa is the director for several courses in Dentistry where she lectures on person-centred care with a focus on the topics of orofacial pain, the dental management of the medically-complex patient, the principles of patient assessment. She also guest lectures on the Canadian and global perspective of oral heath and access to dental care in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics.
Selected Publications
- Liang A, Gomaa N.(2023). Social Capital Associates With Better Cognitive Health, Oral Health and Epigenetic Age Deceleration: Findings From the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. The International Journal of Aging and Human Development. 0(0). doi: :10.1177/00914150231208689.
- Hensel, A., Gomaa, N. (2023). Social and economic capital as effect modifiers of the association between psychosocial stress and oral health. PLOS ONE. 18(5):e0286006. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0286006
- Gomaa, N., Konwar, C., Gladish, N., Au-Young, S., Guo, T., …, Kobor, M., Miller, SP. (2022) Association of Pediatric Buccal Epigenetic Age Acceleration With Adverse Neonatal Brain Growth and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes Among Children Born Very Preterm With a Neonatal Infection. JAMA Network Open. 5(11):e2239796.
- Gomaa, N. Social Epigenomics: Conceptualizations and Considerations for Oral Health. Journal of Dental Research. 2022; 220345221110196. doi: 10.1177/00220345221110196. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35923079.
- Chari, M., Ravaghi, V., Sabbah, W., Gomaa, N., Singhal, S., Quiñonez, C. (2022). Oral health inequality in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. PLOS ONE. 17(5):e0268006.
- Park, L., Gomaa, N., & Quinonez, C. (2021). Racial/ethnic inequality in the association of allostatic load and dental caries in children. (2021). Journal of Public Health Dentistry.82(2):239-246
- Gomaa N, Tenenbaum H, Glogauer M, Quiñonez C. The biology of social adversity applied to oral health. Journal of Dental Research. 2019;98(13):1442-1449.
- Gomaa N, Glogauer M, Nicolau B, Tenenbaum H, Siddiqi A, Fine N, Quiñonez C. Stressed-out oral immunity: a gateway from socioeconomic adversity to periodontal disease. Psychosomatic medicine. 2020;82(2):126-37.
- Sabbah W, Gomaa N, Gireesh A. Stress, allostatic load, and periodontal diseases. Periodontology 2000. 2018;78(1):15461.
- Gomaa N, Glogauer M, Tenenbaum H, Siddiqi A, Quiñonez C. Social-biological interactions in oral disease: A ‘cells to society’view. PLOS ONE. 11(1):e0146218.
- Zivkovic N, Aldossri M, Gomaa N, Farmer JW, Singhal S, Quiñonez C, Ravaghi V. Providing dental insurance can positively impact oral health outcomes in Ontario. BMC Health Services Research. 2020;20(1):1-9.
- Win, P. W., Nyugen, J., Morin, A. L., Newcomb, C. E., Singh, S. M., Gomaa, N., & Castellani, C. A. (2024). Simultaneous assessment of mitochondrial DNA copy number and nuclear epigenetic age towards predictive models of development and aging.BMC Research Notes, 17(1), 21.
-
Hanif, F., Adeniyi, A., Dorion, R., Gomaa, N., & Jessani, A. (2024). Impact of Delayed Dental Treatment during the COVID-19 Pandemic in an Undergraduate Dental Clinic in Southwestern Ontario, Canada—A Retrospective Chart Review. J Can Dent Assoc, 90(o1), 1488-2159.
Click here to perform an automatic PubMed search
