healthy people 2020 - Society for Public Health Education

✯ Selected Plenary Speaker Snapshots ✯
diane allensworth, phd
Diane Allensworth is SOPHE’s 2009-10 President and is a
Senior Advisor within the Office of Policy at the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention. Since joining CDC in 1997,
she has applied her expertise in children’s health and school
health in CDC’s Division of Adolescent & School Health,
Division of Partnerships and Strategic Alliances, and the
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity where she recently
completed a 120-day detail to assist First Lady Michelle
Obama’s Let’s Move! Campaign. Dr. Allensworth is former
Executive Director of the American School Health Association
and professor emeritus at Kent State University. A passionate
child health advocate, she served as a Peace Corps volunteer
and received SOPHE’s Open Society Award for her commitment
to social justice in 2008. In 2010, she co-edited SOPHE’s
first textbook, Health Promotion Programs.
w. doug evans, phd
Doug Evans is currently serving a 4-year appointment
(2007-2011) as a member of the Secretary of Health and
Human Service’s National Advisory Committee on Health
Promotion and Disease Prevention (Healthy People 2020).
Dr. Evans is Director of Public Health Communication and
Marketing, and Professor in the Department of Prevention
and Community Health and the Department of Global
Health at The George Washington University (GWU).
Dr. Evans has built his public health career on an insight the
private sector has long understood - marketing and communication
matter. A research psychologist, his work focuses
on two key areas: (1) building the evidence base to establish
the effectiveness of marketing and message strategies in
promoting healthy behaviors; and (2) expanding the use of
effective commercial marketing strategies to public health,
especially to reach socially and economically disadvantaged
populations. Dr. Evans is also an expert panel member for
the health marketing and health communication review of
the Guide to Community Preventive Services.
lawrence w. green, drph
Larry Green retired from CDC in 2004, as Distinguished
Fellow-Visiting Scientist. He served as Director of CDC’s World
Health Organization Collaborating Center on Global Tobacco
Control, and later as Acting Director of the Office on Smoking
and Health. In the Public Health Practice Program Office, he
served as the Director of CDC’s Office of Science and Extramural
Research and as Associate Director for Prevention Research
and Academic Partnerships. Dr. Green has broad experience
in health education, prevention, and community interventions
for health promotion and risk reduction. He served as the first
Director of the U.S. Office of Health Information and Health
Promotion in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
under the Carter Administration, and as Vice President of the
Kaiser Family Foundation. A former SOPHE President and
Distinguished Fellow, he has been on the public health faculties
at Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Texas and Emory. He
currently serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal
of Preventive Medicine, Health Education & Behavior, Health
Education Research, Theory and Practice, the American Journal
of Health Behavior and 11 other journals.
shiriki kumanyika, phd, mph
Shiriki Kumanyika is Vice-Chair of the Secretary’s Advisory
Committee on National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Objectives for 2020. Among her many academic appointments,
Dr. Kumanyika is the Senior Advisor to the Center for
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Public Health Initiatives, Professor of Epidemiology,
Associate Dean for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention,
and Senior Fellow of the Institute on Aging at the University
of Pennsylvania. Dr. Kumanyika has a unique interdisciplinary
background that integrates epidemiology, nutrition,
minority health, and women’s health issues with a focus on
prevention. Her research addresses the role of nutritional
factors in the primary and secondary prevention of chronic
diseases, with a particular focus on obesity and related health
problems such as hypertension and diabetes.
james michael mcginnis, md, mpp
Michael McGinnis is Senior Scholar at the Institute of
Medicine, as well as Executive Director of its Roundtable
on Evidence-Based Medicine. Prior to joining the Institute
of Medicine, Dr. McGinnis was Senior Vice President and
Director of the Health Group and scholar-in-residence at the
National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. Previously,
he held appointments throughout the Carter, Reagan,
Bush and Clinton Administrations (1977-1995), as Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Health and Assistant Surgeon General
in the Department of Health and Human Services, responsible
for coordinating policies in disease prevention and health
promotion. During his government service, Dr. McGinnis
was principal architect of the Healthy People process to set national
health goals and objectives; the formation of the HHS
Nutrition Policy Board and development of the HHS/USDA
Dietary Guidelines for Americans; and the creation of the U.S.
Preventive Services Task Force, which produced the Guide to
Clinical Preventive Services.
john seffrin, phd
John Seffrin has been CEO of the American Cancer Society
since 1992. During his tenure, Dr. Seffrin has made his
organization’s voice heard in legislatures around the country
and in forums worldwide. He spearheaded the creation of the
Society’s nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy affiliate, the American
Cancer Society Cancer Action Network and is a past
president of the Geneva-headquartered International Union
Against Cancer. He currently serves on the Advisory Committee
to the Director of the US Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, a Secretary-level appointment. A SOPHE
Distinguished Fellow, Dr. Seffrin is a contributing author to
more than one dozen books and has written more than 100
articles and other publications. Dr. Seffrin is the 2010
Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award Winner, a $25,000
prize, and will deliver his address on Saturday, November 6.
rear admiral penelope slade-sawyer, pt, msw
Penelope Slade-Sawyer is Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Health, Disease Prevention and Health Promotion where
she directs the Office of Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion (ODPHP), Office of Public Health and Science
(OPHS) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS). RADM Slade-Sawyer is a Commissioned
Corps Officer in the U.S. Public Health Service. She is a
senior health advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Health
and to the Secretary of HHS. RADM Slade-Sawyer leads
the ODPHP in coordinating three key initiatives for HHS:
Healthy People 2010; the Dietary Guidelines for Americans;
and the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans.
As Director of the Office of Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion, RADM Slade-Sawyer has primary Federal leadership
responsibility for Healthy People 2020, Healthfinder,
The National Health Information Center, and The National
Health Information Infrastructure.