Faculty & Research

Education:

• Ph.D. at University of Toledo, 1978
• M.Ed. at University of Toledo, 1975
• B.S. at Towson University, 1973

Contact Information:

(812) 322-2022

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HPER Building, Room 136

Background:

• Member, U.S. Senior Biomedical Research Service
• Founding Director, Division of Adolescent and School Health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Child and Adolescent Health Promotion
• Visting Professor, Beijing Medical University, People's Republic of China
• Head of Health Promotion Subcommittee, U.S./Russian Joint Commission on Economic and Technological Cooperation
• Chief of Evaluation, U.S. Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Research:

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Applied research on developing, measuring, and evaluating national public health systems and policies, especially to improve the health of children, adolescents, and young adults.

Publications:

(2006). Food Marketing to Children and Youth: Threat or Opportunity? Institute of Medicine Committee on Food Marketing and the Diets of Children and Youth. Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences Press.

(2000). Building the Capacity of Schools to Improve the Health of Nations. Global Health in the 21st Century, 212-220. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

(1998). Report of the World Health Organization Expert Committee on Comprehensive School Health Education and Promotion. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization.

(2004, May/June). Enabling the nation's schools to help prevent heart disease, stroke, cancer, COPD, diabetes, and other serious health problems. Public Health Reports, 119(3), 286-302.

(2004, February). Schools and terrorism: A supplement to the National Advisory Committee on children and terrorism recommendations to the secretary. Journal of School Health, 74(2), 39-51.

(2000, December). Toward a National Action Plan on overweight and obesity. Obesity Research, 10(12), 1299-1305.

(2002, June). Youth risk behavior surveillance—United States, 2001. Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Reports Surveillance Summaries, 51(4), 1-62.

Courses Recently Taught:

HPER C510 Organization and Administration of Public Health Programs

HPER H635 Health Promotion in the 21st Century

HPER H695 Acquiring and Managing External Funds for Health and Human Services