Prof. Guglielmo Giuseppe Campus (born May 8, 1964, Sassari, Italy) is a leading academic and clinician in cariology, preventive dentistry, and paediatric dentistry. He obtained his dental degree from the University of Sassari (1983–1989), completed a postgraduate training in paediatric dentistry in Jönköping, Sweden (1989–1990) under Prof. Göran Koch, and earned his PhD in Preventive Dentistry from the University of Sassari in 1995.
Academic Career
Campus built his academic career as Associate Professor at the University of Sassari (2014–2019), where he simultaneously served as Head of the Paediatric Dentistry Unit (2010–2019). From 2019 to 2024, he held the position of Extraordinariat Professor of Preventive Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Since 2024, he serves as Full Professor of Cariology at Sahlgrenska Akademin, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Between 2014 and 2021, he coordinated the WHO Collaborating Centre for Epidemiology and Community Dentistry in Milan.
Honorary Titles
He has been awarded three honorary distinctions: an Honorary Doctorate in Dental Medicine from the University of Gothenburg (2023), an Honorary Professorship from the University of Buenos Aires (2023), and an Honorary Doctorate in Dentistry from the University of Timișoara, Romania (2024).
Research & Publications
Campus is the author of 306 PubMed-indexed publications. His H-index is 39 on Scopus (6,782 total citations) and 60 on Google Scholar (9,728 citations). He serves as Guest Editor and Editorial Board Member for several international journals, including BMC Oral Health, Frontiers in Oral Health, PLOS One, and Minerva Stomatologica. He has supervised 16 PhD students at the Universities of Sassari and Bern.
Professional Memberships
Campus has held key roles in leading international dental organisations. He served as Co-President of the Organisation for Caries Research (ORCA) from 2017 to 2022, and as of July 2025 serves as President-Elect. He is a member of IADR, the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry (EAPD), and the European Association of Dental Public Health.
Communities at the Frontline: Reducing Caries for a Healthier Future
Dental caries continues to impose a major public health burden, particularly among children and elderly, where its prevalence, long-term consequences, and associated costs are well documented. Evidence from oral health demonstrates that community-level prevention—such as population-wide fluoride strategies and school-based programmes—can substantially reduce caries rates and costs, while individual preventive care helps sustain these benefits for children at higher risk.