Renato Venturelli works as a Research Assistant for the Dental Public Health Research group since April 2017.  He graduated as a dentist from the University of Concepcion, Chile in 2011. After working clinically for some years he developed an interest in the social determinants of health and in research. Due to this, he decided to undertake a Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health and Healthcare Network and also a Postgraduate Certificate in Ethics in Biomedical Research. In 2014 he was awarded a prestigious Chilean scholarship to come to the UK to study and decided to enrol in the MSc degree in Dental Public Health at UCL. Since working as a research assistant, Renato has been involved in a variety of tasks, including conducting scoping reviews, submitting scientific papers for publication, supporting application processes for research funding opportunities as well as offering teaching and administrative support to the MSc in Dental Public Health.