In this episode, Jackie Sanders and Andrew Johnston sit down with Jill Sirko, PhD, cofounder of KaiAvora Health, to discuss the challenge of translating research into information clinicians and patients can actually use. Jill shares her unconventional path from studying medieval literature and systems of power to working in health care, patient advocacy, and oral health research. She explains how her experience navigating a fragmented health-care system after the birth of her daughter ultimately changed the direction of her career and shaped her interest in making complex health information more accessible.
The conversation explores why it can take years for research findings to make their way into clinical practice, the growing challenge of distinguishing credible science from misinformation, and the responsibility researchers and communicators have to make evidence understandable without oversimplifying it.
Jill also discusses the work behind KaiAvora Health and its focus on helping people better understand the connections between oral and systemic health, particularly in women’s health. For dental hygienists, the conversation highlights an important opportunity: helping patients recognize that oral health involves much more than their teeth and giving them evidence-based information that helps connect what happens in the mouth with the rest of the body.
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