Board of Directors

Sara Cole

PhD, MCHES®

Sara L. Cole is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Human Environmental Sciences at the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO). She earned her BS ...

Sara Cole

PhD, MCHES®

Sara L. Cole is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Human Environmental Sciences at the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO). She earned her BS in Health Fitness in Preventive & Rehabilitative Studies as well as a MA in Health Promotion & Program Management from Central Michigan University (CMU). She holds a PhD in Health Behavior with foci in Health Promotion and Human Sexuality from Indiana University

Dr. Cole has been a member of the UCO faculty since 2009. Prior to that, she was faculty at Illinois State University (ISU). While at ISU, Dr. Cole received the Outstanding Faculty Commitment to Diversity Award for inclusion in the classroom as well as the first annual Faculty Opportunities for Creating Civic and Community Understanding Among Students (FOCUS) Faculty Award for implementing service learning in her Community Health course. She and her UCO colleagues received the College of Education & Professional Studies Collaborative Teamwork Award for creating the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) Institute at UCO.

Dr. Cole is a former Annual Meeting Trustee, Delegate Trustee, and National Delegate of the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) and currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for the Advancement of Health Education (FAHE). Dr. Cole is a member of Eta Sigma Gamma, and installed the first chapter in the state of Oklahoma at UCO.

Sara’s service and research interests in professional leadership and sexual health intersect in myriad ways via consulting and philanthropic work in Central Oklahoma. Whether it’s creating and teaching a Women’s Wellness curriculum for females in recovery, writing textbook chapters for leadership in public health or childhood sexuality, or revising sexuality education curricula for a non-profit organization, Dr. Cole brings passion and enthusiasm to all that she does.

Joseph A. Dake

PhD, MPH, FASHA

Professor of Public HealthUniversity of Toledo Joseph A. Dake, PhD, MPH, FASHA, is a Professor of Public Health at the University of Toledo ...

Joseph A. Dake

PhD, MPH, FASHA

Professor of Public HealthUniversity of Toledo

Joseph A. Dake, PhD, MPH, FASHA, is a Professor of Public Health at the University of Toledo. He earned his undergraduate degree in psychology at UToledo, his Master of Public Health at the Northwest Ohio Consortium for Public Health, and his PhD in Health Education at the UToledo. He worked at Wayne State University in School Health Education for 5 years before taking a position in 2006 back at his alma matter also teaching in the School Health Education area.

He has been the chairperson of the Department of Population Health since 2010. The department houses undergraduate programs in public health, health information administration, and healthcare administration. The department also has a master of public health (MPH) program with four majors, a master of science in occupational health (MSOH), and a PhD in health education. He teaches a variety of public health classes in addition to some medical school classes on health disparities.

Dr. Dake’s primary topic of interest and the basis for most of his research is health promotion of school-aged youth. This research has resulted in over 100 peer-reviewed publications and national and state conference presentations. Additionally, he is involved in a wide variety of quantitative and qualitative community health assessments and program evaluations. The latter of these serve as the foundation for most of the $7 million in grant funding in which he served as a program evaluator.

For more than 20 years, he has been a member of the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE), the American Public Health Association (APHA), and the American School Health Association (ASHA). He has served in various leadership positions in each of these organizations and has been awarded Distinguished Fellow status of ASHA. He is also an author for a couple of the chapters of the SOPHE textbook Health Promotion Programs: From Theory to Practice. He has served on the Expert Review Group for the National Health Education Standards and developed curriculum for the OAHPERD Model Health Education Curriculum as well as the Health and Opioid Abuse Prevention Education (HOPE) Curriculum for Ohio.

Locally, Dr. Dake is actively engaged with a number of local community organizations. His primary work in this area is with Health Partners of Western Ohio, a Community Health Center for which he serves on the board. This organization has 11 area clinical sites to serve underserved populations. Additionally, they have partnered with multiple school districts and have 12 comprehensive schoolbased health centers to support the health and well-being of students and their families.

Bonnie Edmondson

Professor Emerita

Professor Emerita of School Health EducationSouthern Connecticut State University Dr. Edmondson is a Professor ...

Bonnie Edmondson

Professor Emerita

Professor Emerita of School Health EducationSouthern Connecticut State University

Dr. Edmondson is a Professor Emerita of School Health Education at Southern Connecticut State University, has served as an education administrator at the Connecticut State Department of Education, and was a classroom teacher at the k-12 level. She is a nationally renowned speaker on health and education policy, and athletic coaching and was appointed to expert panels for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Additionally, Dr. Edmondson has held numerous leadership positions with USA Track and Field (USATF) having twice been selected as the Head Women’s Coach of the World Athletic and IAAF Championships. Bonnie was the throwing events coach for the 2016 United States Olympic Team and coach for five additional World Athletic Championship teams. Dr. Edmondson is a member of the USATF Women’s Track and Field Executive Committee, Ex-officio and former Chair of the USATF Women’s Commission that is charged with promoting gender equity and leadership opportunities for women and girls in track and field. Athletically, Dr. Edmondson is the 1990 and 1991 United States champion and former world ranked hammer thrower. Bonnie placed 3rd at the 1992 Track and Field Olympic Trials, competed at the 1996 Olympic Trails, and was ranked among the top five in the United States in the women’s hammer throw from 1990-1996. Most recently, Bonnie won the gold medal in the hammer throw and silver medal in the weight throw in her age category at the 2024 World Master’s Athletics Championship in Sweden. Bonnie continues to advocate for and champion opportunities for women and girls in sport and inspires others to pursue their goals and dreams.

Dr. Edmondson has been recognized as an advocate and inspirational leader in her respective professional fields. Dr. Edmondson is currently the track and field throwing events coach at Trinity College in Hartford, CT.

Betty Hubbard

EdD, MCHES®

Dr. Hubbard joined the FAHE Board of Directors in 2024. She has served in numerous leadership roles at the national and state levels and ...

Betty Hubbard

EdD, MCHES®

Dr. Hubbard joined the FAHE Board of Directors in 2024. She has served in numerous leadership roles at the national and state levels and is an author and consultant for many health education curricula, videos, instructional manuals, and the Teen Health textbook series. Dr. Hubbard is a professor in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of Central Arkansas (UCA), teaching undergraduate and graduate courses as well as serving as an evaluator for the Arkansas Biosciences Institute. Her research interests focus on curriculum development and assessment, mental health, foundations of health education and promotion, human sexuality, and current trends in the field of health promotion. Dr. Hubbard is a past recipient of the teaching excellence award from UCA and a presidential citation from the American Association for Health Education.

Kathleen Middleton

MS, MCHES®

President and CEO of ToucanEdToucanEd Kathleen Middleton is a dedicated educator with over 30 years of experience in health education. She holds ...

Kathleen Middleton

MS, MCHES®

President and CEO of ToucanEdToucanEd

Kathleen Middleton is a dedicated educator with over 30 years of experience in health education. She holds a Master of Health Science from California State University, Long Beach, and is a Master Certified Health Education Specialist.

She began her career as a middle school health teacher in Southern California before transitioning into curriculum development. She worked as a director at the National Center for Health Education and a Senior Editor for ETR Associates, overseeing school health products. She also developed K-12 extbooks for multiple publishers.

In 1995, Kathleen founded ToucanEd, Inc., a company specializing in custom product development for schools and other professional settings. Under her leadership, ToucanEd has produced hundreds of health education resources for students and professionals. She also played a key role in conceptualizing and developing HEALTHteacher.com, launched by WebMD in the early 2000s.

Recognized as a subject matter expert in health education assessment, Kathleen has worked extensively with organizations like the Health Education Assessment Project (HEAP) and ACT to develop assessment tools. She also conducts international training on performance assessment in health education.

From 2017 to 2021, she collaborated with the California Department of Education (CDE) and the Orange County Office of Education to develop professional learning materials for educators based on California’s updated Health Education Framework.

Passionate about health education and fostering a positive work environment at ToucanEd, Kathleen also enjoys playing the ukulele and spending time with her puppy, Patch.

Marlene K.Tappe

Ph.D

Professor Emeritus of Health ScienceMinnesota State University-Mankato Marlene K. Tappe, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Health Science ...

Marlene K.Tappe

Ph.D

Professor Emeritus of Health ScienceMinnesota State University-Mankato

Marlene K. Tappe, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Health Science at Minnesota State UniversityMankato (MSU-M). Dr. Tappe earned her undergraduate degree at MSU-M and her M.S. and Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was on the faculty of Purdue University for 19 years and spent two of those years with the Division of Adolescent and School Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Dr. Tappe then returned to Minnesota and was with MSU-M for 19 years including 11 years as the Chairperson of the Department of Health Science.

Dr. Tappe’s projects at CDC included co-authorship of chapter six of Physical Activity and Health: A Report of the Surgeon General and lead authorship of CDC’s Guidelines for School and Community Programs to Promote Lifelong Physical Activity Among Young People. Dr. Tappe served on the Joint Committees for National Health Education Standards which developed first and second editions of the National Health Education Standards (1995, 2007) and co-chaired the Standards Writing Group for the National Consensus for School Health Education (NCSHE) for the third edition of the National Health Education Standards (2022). She was a member of American Cancer Society’s (ACS) School Health Advisory Panel which facilitated the National Health Education Standards Implementation Training of Trainers as well as ACS and CDC School Health Education Higher Education Academies. Dr. Tappe also was a member of CDC’s Training Tools for Healthy Schools training cadre. She currently co-chairs the NCSHE’s Development Group, is the secretary of the Foundation for the Advancement of Health Education (FAHE), and represents FAHE on the Management Group of the NCSHE.

Dr. Tappe’s has received awards from the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, the CDC, the ACS, the American Association for Health Education, Eta Sigma Gamma, the Society of State Directors of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, and the Coalition of National Health Education Organizations. She was named the 2023 Distinguished Fellow of the Society for Public Health Education.

Kelly L. Wilson

PhD, MCHES®

Kelly Wilson, PhD, MCHES®, is honored to serve as Treasurer on the Board of Directors for FAHE. With extensive experience as an educator ...

Kelly L. Wilson

PhD, MCHES®

Kelly Wilson, PhD, MCHES®, is honored to serve as Treasurer on the Board of Directors for FAHE. With extensive experience as an educator and evaluator, she works closely with health education specialists in community and school health. Before joining Texas A&M University, Kelly was a faculty member at Texas State University-San Marcos. Her career began with youth-focused physical activity programs, and during her master’s degree, she interned at AAHE’s Reston, VA offices, where she networked with leaders in the field. Over time, Kelly’s focus shifted to supporting pregnant and parenting adolescents, where she has provided strategic leadership in sexuality education training, implementation, and evaluation. More recently, she’s embraced innovation in adolescent health by applying systems approaches and design thinking to program development.

Kelly has held leadership positions at all levels of health education, including the Board of Commissioners for the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing and achieving Fellow status with the American School Health Association and Eta Sigma Gamma. Kelly and her family live on a mini-farm near College Station, where she’s diving into agri-tainment and learning sustainable living. When she’s not working, you’ll find her traveling to beaches or hiking destinations.

Previous Board Members

David A. Birch

PhD, MCHES®

David A. Birch is a professor in the Department of Health Science, The University of Alabama. He served as department chair from ...

David A. Birch

PhD, MCHES®

David A. Birch is a professor in the Department of Health Science, The University of Alabama. He served as department chair from 2011-2018. From 2001-2008 he served as professor and chair of the Department of Health Education and Recreation, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC). He was also a faculty member at Indiana University and Penn State University. Dr. Birch is a past-president of the American Association for Health Education (AAHE) and the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE). He has served on the Board of Directors of AAHE, the American School Health Association (ASHA), the National Association of Health Education Centers (NAHEC), and the Board of Trustees of the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) and currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for the Advancement for Health Education. He is a member and former chair of the editorial board of the Journal of School Health, member of the editorial board of Health Education and Behavior and a former member of the editorial boards of Pedagogy in Health Promotion: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and the American Journal of Health Studies. Dr. Birch is a Charter Fellow of AAHE and an ASHA Fellow. He has received the highest awards from three organizations; the William A. Howe Award from ASHA (2019), the SOPHE Distinguished Fellow Award (2018), and the Eta Sigma Gamma Honor Award (2015). Dr. Birch has also received the SOPHE Presidential Citation (2012), ASHA Outstanding Researcher Award (2010), AAHE Professional Service Award (2008), AAHE Presidential Citation (2008, 2012, 2013) and ASHA Distinguished Service Award (1996). He was the 2008 Ann E. Nolte Scholar in Health Education, Illinois State University and Robert D. Russell Scholar, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (2000). While at Indiana University, Dr. Birch received the Trustee’s Teaching Award and the Teaching Excellence Recognition Award. His research interests include professional preparation, professional leadership, the education-health reciprocal relationship and the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child model.

John A. Bonaguro

PhD

Dean Emeritus and Professor, Public Health, College of Health and Human Service, Western Kentucky University, In 2003 Dr. Bonaguro ...

John A. Bonaguro

PhD

Dean Emeritus and Professor, Public Health, College of Health and Human Service, Western Kentucky University,

In 2003 Dr. Bonaguro was selected as the founding dean of the newly formed College of Health and Human Services. CHHS consists of seven academic units in health and human services including School of Nursing and the Departments of: Allied Health, Communication Disorders, Family and Consumer Sciences, Kinesiology, Recreation, and Sport, Public Health, and Social Work. Under his leadership, CHHS has grown from 2000 students in 2003 to the largest college at WKU with 5,100 students. The growth was accomplished by addition of new degree programs such as two doctoral programs (Doctor of Nursing Practice and Doctor of Physical Therapy), Masters in Social Work, a graduate distance education program in Communication Disorders, the first web-based Masters in Physical Education, and a new Masters in Recreation and Sport Administration. New undergraduate programs have been implemented in Sport Management, Child Studies, Health Sciences, and an on-line RN-BSN program.

Dean Bonaguro earned both his B.S. in Biological Sciences and M.S. in Health Education at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. He received his Ph.D. in Health Education with a secondary emphasis in Community Service and Public Affairs from the University of Oregon. Prior to coming to WKU he was on the faculty at Ohio University and was an Associate Dean in the School of Health Science and Human Performance at Ithaca College. His research has focused primarily on substance abuse prevention and he has received more than $7M in externally funded projects. He was a member on the Board of Directors of Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates (KODA) from 2004- 2016, serving as President from 2013-2016. Dr. Bonaguro was a member Foundation for the Advancement of Health Education, serving as President 2012-2016.

E. Lisako Jones-McKyer

PhD, MCHES®

E. Lisako J. McKyer, Ph.D., MPH is the Senior Associate Dean for Climate & Diversity, and a Full Professor in the Department of Health Promotion ...

E. Lisako Jones-McKyer

PhD, MCHES®

E. Lisako J. McKyer, Ph.D., MPH is the Senior Associate Dean for Climate & Diversity, and a Full Professor in the Department of Health Promotion & Community Health Sciences in the School of Public Health, at Texas A&M University. She holds joint a appointment in the College of Medicine. She earned her BA in psychology from California State University, Northridge where she was awarded a NIH-funded research fellowship. She matriculated in the clinical science (child/pediatric psychology) doctoral program at Indiana University, with cognates in developmental psychology and public health where she received another NIH (NIDDK) training grant. She earned the MPH in Community Health Education and Ph.D. in Health Behavior from Indiana University as a mentee of Dr. Mohammad R. Torabi. Dr. McKyer joined Eta Sigma Gamma’s Nu Chapter (Indiana University) as a lifetime member.

Dr. McKyer’s research foci include: 1) social-ecological determinants of health inequities and minority health issues, and 2) health education research methods (measurement and data analytical strategies). Her pedagogical interests are in child health issues, as well as cultural competency training and development. Dr. McKyer’s service activities include serving on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Health Education, as Associate Editor for Health Behavior and Policy Review, as Review Editorial Board Member for Frontiers in Public Health: Public Health Education & Promotion, and on the Review Board for the American Journal of Health Behavior. She has published 75+ articles in peer-reviewed journals, 100+ peer-reviewed presentations, 4 book chapters, and served as Section Editor of Early Childhood and Childhood volumes of the Encyclopedia of Primary Prevention (2nd Ed due 2015.). Dr. McKyer’s dedication to student development is reflected in several ways. She was named “Faculty of the Year” by ESG Alpha Pi Chapter (Texas A&M University) for an unprecedented two consecutive years (2009, 2010). In 2014, we received the Texas A&M University-Level Distinguished Achievement Award for Graduate Mentoring.

Theresa C. Lewallen

Theresa C. Lewallen’s work has focused on program development, leadership, and the interdependent relationship between health ...

Theresa C. Lewallen

Theresa C. Lewallen’s work has focused on program development, leadership, and the interdependent relationship between health and education. Currently a non-profit grants administrator, she previously led the staff during start-up and implementation of the Culture of Health Leaders Program, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Lewallen held several leadership positions at the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), where she played an instrumental role in the development of ASCD’s whole child efforts, including the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child framework. She also served as the director of ASCD’s Healthy School Communities, engaging schools and communities in collaborative school improvement work across the country and the globe and directed a project that linked schools with local public health agencies.

Lewallen served as co-chair for the National Coordinating Committee on School Health and Safety. She has authored or coauthored publications and participated on national and international committees with a focus on improving outcomes for students through research, policy, and practice. She provided advice to state, provincial, and national governments, making the case for using evidence to inform policy development and program implementation.

Lewallen has a Master of Arts degree in community health promotion and education from Trinity Washington University in Washington, DC. Lewallen’s experience includes providing technical support to the Office of the Secretary of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on women’s health. She also served the city of Alexandria, Va. for seven years as a community health educator, developing and presenting programs in the schools and community.

Ordained an Episcopal deacon in 2016, Lewallen organizes community service activities and leads a partnership between her church and the local public elementary school.

Richard L. Papenfuss

PhD

Richard (Dick) Papenfuss, Ph.D. served as the founding President of the FAHE Board of Directors in 1992. He had just completed a four-year assignment ...

Richard L. Papenfuss

PhD

Richard (Dick) Papenfuss, Ph.D. served as the founding President of the FAHE Board of Directors in 1992. He had just completed a four-year assignment as the elected President Elect/ President of American Association for Health Education (AAHE) (1986-1990) and volunteered to help form the newly conceived idea of the AAHE Foundation which is currently named the Foundation for the Advancement of Health Education.

Dick graduated from Winona State College (Minnesota) with a B.S Degree in Health and Physical Education in 1963; and with a Master’s of Science Degree in 1966. He competed his PhD at the University of Utah. He taught Health Education at the high school level for three years before accepting college positions in Health Education at California Lutheran College and Luther College (Iowa) where he developed their first Health Education minor.

Six years later, he accepted a position at the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse (1974-82) where he became Chair of the Health Education Department that featured approximately 500 School and Community Health Education majors and a new and highly successful M.S. Degree at the graduate level. He moved to the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque (1982-90) to develop their Health Promotion Program with degrees at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including a new Ph.D. Degree in Health Promotion.

He then became the Director of Community and Environmental Health at the University of Arizona in Tucson (1990-98) with the challenge of assisting the UA College of Health Sciences develop a Masters Degree in Public Health. His final professional challenge was at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he became the Graduate Coordinator in charge of developing a Masters Degree in Health Promotion (1998-2006) that consisted of nearly 100 graduate students.

In addition to his career in health education, wellness, health promotion, and public health, he served as Vice-President of the first cardiac rehabilitation program (New Heart) in New Mexico; was a consultant to the development of employee health promotion programs at Sandia Laboratories in NM and the Hughes Missile Systems employee health promotion program in AZ; was a co-principal investigator on a $1,00,000 Kellogg Grant to establish the first university Wellness Center west of the Mississippi River. He served as the chief project consultant for the Agency for Instructional Television (AIT) in Bloomington, IN for the development of two multi-million drug education instructional video series that were supported by the US and Canada; and served as the Health Education consultant for over 1500 clergy members in retreat settings in NM and AZ. In collaboration with the Association for the Advancement of Health Education he served as a lead developer and trainer for an $860,000 grant project from the Best Foundation for a Drug Free Tomorrow. The project focused on training middle school teachers in drug prevention strategies. He has been happily married to his wife, Mary, a cancer researcher, for 57 years and they have been blessed with two sons, Jon and Jeff, four grandchildren, and one great grandchild! Retired, they now preside on 15 acres overlooking Santa Fe, New Mexico in The Land of Enchantment with their two Malamute puppies, Koko and Kiki!

Bill Potts-Datema

DrPH, MS, MCHES®

Dr. William Potts-Datema has served in education and public health for 40 years, including service from local to international levels. He has ...

Bill Potts-Datema

DrPH, MS, MCHES®

President

Dr. William Potts-Datema has served in education and public health for 40 years, including service from local to international levels. He has held several national leadership positions in the United States including Chief of the Program Development and Services Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of Adolescent and School Health, Director of Partnerships for Children’s Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, and Executive Director of the Society of State Leaders of Health and Physical Education in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Potts-Datema is an adjunct professor in the School Health Education graduate program of Southern Connecticut State University. He also consults for government agencies and national non-profit organizations and is the United States representative for the UNESCO Chair for Global Health and Education.

He serves as President of the Foundation for the Advancement of Health Education, SecretaryTreasurer of the National Parent-Teacher Association (PTA), Treasurer of the Society for Public Health Education, and Vice-Chair of the Missouri State University Alumni Association. He is also a board member of the CATCH Global Foundation, Georgia PTA, National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, and RMC Health. He previously served on the global boards of ASCD and the International Union for Health Promotion and Education; the national boards of the American Association for Health Education (AAHE), American School Health Association (ASHA), and National PTA; and as chair of the national board and a founding board member of Action for Healthy Kids.

He holds a Doctor of Public Health degree from the University of Georgia, and Master of Science and Bachelor of Science in Education degrees from Missouri State University. Dr. Potts-Datema has presented in 48 U.S. states and 12 other nations, and he has authored and contributed to numerous publications. He is a fellow of ASHA and AAHE and a member of Delta Omega national public health honorary society and Eta Sigma Gamma national health education honorary society.

Becky J. Smith

PhD, MCHES®, CAE®

Dr. Smith has extensive experience in association management as well as education and public health both nationally and internationally. She was ...

Becky J. Smith

PhD, MCHES®, CAE®

Dr. Smith has extensive experience in association management as well as education and public health both nationally and internationally. She was one of four founding members of the Foundation for the Advancement of Health Education. She served as the Registered Agent of the Foundation from 1992 – 2010 and as Board member from 2010-2019 having served her last three years as President. From 1985-2010 Dr. Smith served as the Executive Director of the American Association for Health Education and Vice President of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. From 1991 through 2001, Dr. Smith served on the Board of Trustees of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE), and as the Regional Director for the North American Regional Office (NARO) of IUHPE. From 1985-1989 she was a board member and Vice President on the National Task Force for the Preparation and Practice of Health Educators that founded the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. (NCHEC). From 1992-94, Dr. Smith served as the Chairperson of the National School Health Education Coalition. She has served as a chairperson of the National Coordinating Committee on School Health and of the National Alliance for Curriculum Reform. She served on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Health Education Centers from 2002-2009 and is a current Board member of CHAPS – Charlotte HIV and AIDS People Support.

Dr. Smith developed and directed 25 national projects in health education and health promotion funded by government, corporation, and foundation sources totaling more than 8 million dollars during her career. These included the work of the Joint Committee on National Health Education Standards for K-12 in 1995. and the revision in 2007. She served as the Editor of the Journal of Health Education from 1986 through 1997 and as the Executive Editor of both the American Journal of Health Education and the International Electronic Journal of Health Education, 1998-2010. She has served on numerous national advisory committees, been an author of 30 professional publications and made more than 70 national and international level presentations. Her academic appointments include: Lecturer, Univ. of Illinois 1973-75, Assistant Prof. Indiana State Univ. 1975- 76, Assistant Prof. Illinois State Univ. 1976-1982, Associate Prof, Ohio Univ. 1982-85, Visiting Prof. Cleveland State Univ. 2012-2015.

Dr. Smith served as a consultant for Project Hope International during the 1990s in response to the need for HIV/AIDS education. The first project was a multi-country conference in Poland on HIV prevention for the countries of Eastern Europe. The second project was development of HIV/AIDS education curricula for students training in health care professions at the Barbados Community College.

She served as a consultant in the area of youth peer health education in Kosovo in 2004 and in 2010 under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport. In summer of 2006 she was a coprofessor of Health Promotion in the School of Medicine at the University of Pristina, Kosovo.

Alan Sofalvi,

PhD

Dr. Alan Sofalvi was named to the FAHE Board of Directors in 2017, named as FAHE Historian in 2019 and named as FAHE Secretary in 2020. He has also ...

Alan Sofalvi,

PhD

Secretary

Dr. Alan Sofalvi was named to the FAHE Board of Directors in 2017, named as FAHE Historian in 2019 and named as FAHE Secretary in 2020. He has also served other health education organizations, being appointed Historian of Eta Sigma Gamma in 2016. He is an Assistant Professor of Health at SUNY Cortland, where he has taught since 1997 and serves as one of the faculty advisers of Kappa Chapter. His research interests focus on media coverage of health topics and on the history of health education. Dr. Sofalvi has taught drug education courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, health behavior, current issues, program planning and evaluation courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and a health and the media course. His degrees are from The University of Toledo, Southern Illinois University and Penn State University.

Mohammad Torabi

PhD, MCHES®

Professor Torabi received a B.S. and M.S.P.H. from Tehran University, Ph.D. from Purdue University and M.P.H. from Indiana University ...

Mohammad Torabi

PhD, MCHES®

Professor Torabi received a B.S. and M.S.P.H. from Tehran University, Ph.D. from Purdue University and M.P.H. from Indiana University. Currently, he is Chancellor’s Professor and Founding Dean Emeritus of the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington and had served as Chair of the Department of Applied Health Science.

His research focus has been in the area of measurement and evaluation of public and school health programs and factors associated with health behavior. His research extends into health promotion and key factors related to individuals’ decisions in the prevention of tobacco and other drugs, cancer, and HIV/AIDS infection. He has extensively published his research in a variety of major national and international journals in the field. Specifically, his research in the area of tobacco as a gateway drug and tobacco policy has made an impact at the national and international levels. Professor Torabi has served as a research consultant for various state and national organizations including governmental and non-governmental agencies and has presented his research in major national and international conferences.

His contributions have been recognized by numerous awards, such as the 2015 Society for Public Health Education Distinguished Fellow Award, Scholar Award from the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation; Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Council for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, Research Council Award of the American School Health Association, the Midwest District Scholar of the American Alliance for HPER. He also received the Outstanding Researcher Award by the Indiana University School of HPER; the Murray Auerbach Medal from the American Lung Association of Indiana; National Distinguished Service Award by the American School Health Association; and the Indiana University W. George Pinnell Award for outstanding service. Also he was selected a Distinguished Alumnus of Purdue University College of Liberal Arts. He has received various certificates of Merits and Commendation by the American Cancer Society; Phi Delta Kappa; and the American Lung Association. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Health Behavior; Fellow of American School Health Association; Fellow of the AAHPERD Research Consortium; Fellow of American Association of Health Education; and Fellow of North American Society of HPER. In 1997, he was named a Chancellor’s Professor at Indiana University.

Donna M. Videto

PhD, MCHES®

Donna Videto, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor and Professor of Health, has worked in school health education and pedagogy for over ...

Donna M. Videto

PhD, MCHES®

Vice President

Donna Videto, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor and Professor of Health, has worked in school health education and pedagogy for over 40 years. An AAHE Fellow and a CDC HECAT trainer, she is currently employed by SUNY College at Cortland where Donna teaches graduate and undergraduate students in health education. Donna has a number of national publications including Birch & Videto’s 2015 Promoting Health and Academic Success: The Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Approach. With over 150 national, regional and state level presentations at conferences and committee work for SOPHE, AAHE, and ASHA. Currently Donna serves as the Vice President of FAHE and is a member of the SOPHE National Committee on the Future of School Health Education.