Anita Duhl Glicken, M.S.W.

Anita Duhl Glicken MSW, Professor and Associate Dean Emerita at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center, has over 35 years of administrative, research and education experience. A founding member of the National Interprofessional Initiative on Oral Health (NIIOH), Ms. Glicken now serves as the organization’s Executive Director. She is a Santa Fe Group Board Member and past chair of HRSA’s Federal Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry (ACTPCMD). She was consultant and chair of the award-winning Primary Care Collaborative Advisory Committee’s Integration of Oral Health in Primary Care Compendium and served as consultant and co-chair of the recent National Academies of Medicine Global Forum Workshop on Models of Whole-Person Oral Health Education. Ms. Glicken has served on many oral health project committees including the Meharry University Oral Health Equity Project, the CIPCOH 100 Million Mouths Campaign Advisory Board and the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors’ Medical Dental Integration Project.

Ms. Glicken previously served on several national expert panels to develop tools and resources supporting workforce research, practice, and policy including HRSA’s National Center for Health Workforce Analysis (NCHWA) on Data and Methods for Tracking, Supply, Demand, Distribution and Adequacy of the Primary Care Workforce, HRSA’s 2014 Integration of Oral Health and Primary Care Practice report, and Oral Health: An Essential Component of Primary Care, a Qualis Health White Paper. Ms. Glicken has personally received several national awards. Under her leadership NIIOH was awarded the ADEA Foundation Gies Award and the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education George T. Thibault Award. A clinical social worker, her career has focused on healthcare transformation, partnering to create innovative education and care delivery models grounded in interprofessional collaboration and health equity. She was primary investigator and project director of an American International Health Alliance multi-year PEPFAR contract to create new educational programs to build midlevel health workforce capacity in South Africa. Ms. Glicken is the author of over 100 publications in health care education, workforce, and research.