It is with great excitement that I announce that effective January 1, 2011 I will be serving as the Head of the Department of Health Sciences (soon to be the Department of Public Health Sciences) at New Mexico State University. Of course this announcement is bittersweet in that I am leaving a place that I [...]
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Don Read–In Memory
Folks, Late last month I found out that Dr. Don Read, a noted health educator, died in May 2009. Don was an instrumental people in many lives, as well as a voice of reason for the profession of health education. I met Don while serving on a Joint Committee between SOPHE/AAHE on Graduate Standards in [...]
NHEW 2010
Plans are currently being made to have an active National Health Education Week this October. As you may know, the national week is celebrated October 17-23. Last year’s event was highlighted with a series of webinars (that can still be accessed at healthpromotionlive.com). As we are working on this year’s schedule, we’d like to hear [...]
HEDIR Technology Contest
Calling all Health Education Faculty and Students: Enter Our Health Education and Social Media Contest to win $500! Social media and Web 2.0 have become regular fixtures of our modern society. However, to what extent are we using this technology in our field? What are we doing to prepare 21st Century health educators to use [...]
Community Organizing and Technology
To the group, I had another thought about how we can combine community organizing and technology. Looking at the three models of the community organizing – locality, social action, and social planning – how can we use technology like twitter, blogging, facebook, etc. What are your thoughts?
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