In 2018, I was the recipient of the Distinguished Scientist Award for Behavioural, Epidemiological and Health Services Research from the International Association for Dental Research (IADR). This is the most highly prestigious award given by IADR and is designed to recognise outstanding achievements in the areas of behavioural science and health services research as they relate to dentistry.

I am also the three-times winner in 2013, 2016 and 2022 of the IADR Giddon Award for Distinguished Research in Behavioural Sciences. The Giddon Award recognises the best paper internationally in the fields of social or cultural anthropology, education, psychology, psychiatry, sociology, and social work applied to dentistry: