A consultant paediatric dentist at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Dr. Mihiri Silva is a senior lecturer at the Melbourne Dental School, University of Melbourne and Melbourne and a Clinician-Scientist Fellow at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. Dr. Silva is the chair of the Australian Dental Association Federal Oral Health Committee, President of the Australian New Zealand Society for Paediatric Dentistry Victorian Branch and Secretary of the Paediatric Oral Health Research Group of the International Association of Dental Research.