OSAP has a Board of Directors for both its membership association and its educational foundation.  The organization also is privileged to have a unique group of global leaders who support the organization as the Friends of OSAP.  The Friends have a different and distinctive role from the organizations' Boards. Through knowledge exchange and translation, OSAP Friends seek to integrate oral infection control and safety procedures into health infection initiatives globally and represent the larger infection prevention and control communities.

Founding Friends include D. Walter Cohen DDS (Chancellor Emeritus, Drexel University), Peter Cooney BDS LDM DDPH MSc (Chief Dental Officer, Canada), Dominick DePaola DDS MPH (Santa Fe Group), Matthew Doyle PhD (Director, Healthcare Research Worldwide P&G), Lawrence Farrell (Formerly of Sunstar Butler), Michael Glick DMD (Editor, Journal of the American Dental Association), Leslie Grant DDS MSPA (82nd Past President, National Dental Association), Harold Jaffe MD MA FFPH (Professor University of Oxford), Patrick Kelly MD DrPH (Director Global Health and African Science Academy, Institute of Medicine), John O'Keefe BDentSc MDentSc MBA (Editor-in-Chief Canadian Dental Association), Noni Macdonald MD (Professor of Pediatrics/Division of Pediatric Disease, Dalhousie University), Daniel Perkins (President Aegis Communications), Clive Ross CNZM (World Health Expert Advisory Committee), Arnauld Nicogossian MD MS (Distinguished Research Professor and Director, Office of International Medical Policy, George Mason School of Public Policy) Dr. Samuel Thorpe (Executive Secretary, Commonwealth Dental Association), Linda Tarrson (Philanthropist), Thomas Tillotson (President Healthco), Anthony Volpe DDS MS (Vice President Global Oral Care Colgate).

What are the Expectations for the OSAP Friends

1. Create a higher level of visibility with a larger network of communities.

2. Identify critical issues globally in the various domains and communities.