Director of the Fukai Institute of Health Science (Japan), Professor Kakuhiro Fukai is a visiting professor at Kanagawa Dental University and visiting researcher at Japan’s National Institute of Public Health. He also serves as chair of FDI’s Oral Health for Ageing Population Task Team (2015-2019, 2021-2024). In addition, Prof. Fukai has served as director of Japan Dental Association and executive director of the 8020 Promotion Foundation (2013-2019), while maintaining a private dental practice for the past thirty years. Performing all of these roles simultaneously has provided him with practical experience and academic expertise at both the global and local level and in all stages of the evidence-policy-practice-evaluation cycle.