UCL staff have performed a wide range of senior academic and public health leadership roles at national and international levels including:
- Watt, Tsakos & Heilmann - founders of International Centre for Oral Health Inequalities Research and Policy (ICOHIRP)
- Tsakos - chair elect, Platform for Better Oral Health
- Tsakos - past president, European Association of Dental Public Health
- Watt - past president, British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry
- Watt - past president, Oral Health Promotion Research Group
- Watt - chair, National Institute of Health Research, Research for Patient Benefit London Panel
- Watt- Director of Research, Development and Innovation, Central North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Watt & Tsakos - FDI Vision 2020 Think Tank
- Tsakos - FDI Oral Health Observatory
- Tsakos - International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) Oral Health Group