I combine clinical dentistry, community research, and health data systems to make oral health needs in underserved communities visible, measurable, and actionable.
I'm a general dentist based in Amman, with clinical experience spanning internships at the Ministry of Health and Royal Medical Services, alongside private practice. Clinical work showed me how health systems fail people at the margins, and that pushed me toward public health.
My research focuses on oral health in underserved populations, with a long-term focus on refugee health, through volunteer field work and a pilot community survey in Jordan. The pattern I kept seeing: data on these communities is fragmented, delayed, or missing entirely.
So I build the missing layer myself. Automated survey pipelines, dashboards, and analysis tooling built for low-resource settings, turning field data into something health teams can act on in days, not years. My long-term goal is real-time, data-driven health monitoring for refugee camp settings in Jordan, built with and for the organizations working there.
Cross-sectional survey of 802 dental students and postgraduate trainees at the University of Jordan, assessing awareness, use, attitudes, and barriers around dental magnification. I designed and administered the questionnaire, performed the statistical analysis, and co-wrote the manuscript as second author. Published in the European Journal of Dental Education (Wiley), 2026. Abu Zaghlan R, Abubader A, Al Awadi J, Al Dandashi J.
Pilot community survey in Amman on oral hygiene practices, dental visit patterns, and barriers to care. I designed the questionnaire in KoBoToolbox and built an automated pipeline through n8n into Google Sheets, with no manual data entry, then built an interactive dashboard to summarize the results.
Supporting a cross-sectional study on predictors of depression and academic stress among medical and dental students in Jordan, using validated instruments (PHQ-9, MSSQ-20). I lead a team of four researchers under a faculty supervisor, coordinating the literature review and the research proposal for ethics submission.
Served as a dental volunteer at the 2025 H4H-Jo Medical Mission in Ghor Al Mazraa, providing dental care to an underserved rural community. Seeing unmet need up close shaped my research direction: closing the data gap that keeps communities like this invisible to health planning.
From questionnaire design to field-ready, offline-capable KoBoToolbox forms for health programs, needs assessments, and community surveys in low-resource settings.
Connecting collection tools to live sheets and reports automatically, so teams stop doing manual data entry.
Interactive dashboards for research data, program monitoring, and M&E reporting that non-technical teams can use.
Statistical analysis, manuscript-ready figures and tables, and LaTeX formatting for journal submission.
Community oral health assessment and clinical perspective for program design, from a practicing dentist.
Practical LLM integrations for health workflows: document processing, education tools, and reporting assistants.
Interactive dashboard visualizing the published 802-respondent dental magnification study, with filters by academic level.
Automated field data pipeline: survey submissions routed into a structured dataset that feeds an interactive dashboard.
AI-powered presentation generator built on the Claude API, with web-search grounding, tone controls, and native PPTX export.
Dental board exam preparation platform I founded and built: 2,000+ flashcards across 14 subjects for students and dentists preparing for licensing exams.
Open to research collaboration, public health data projects, and NGO partnerships in health monitoring and oral health programming.