Bernadette Kathleen Drummond is a New Zealand dental academic, and was the first woman full professor in dentistry at the University of Otago.

She is a specialist pediatric dentist, and past president of both the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons and the Australian and New Zealand Society of Paediatric Dentistry.

[4][5] She moved back to the UK to take a position as Professor and Head of Pediatric Dentistry at the University of Leeds in 2017.

[2] Drummond and colleagues Marina Kamel and Murray Thomson showed that children in fluoridated areas of Otago suffered less tooth decay requiring treatment under general anaesthetic than children from areas without fluoridated water.

[8][9][10][11] Drummond is a past president of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons and in 2011 was made an honorary fellow.