healthy people 2020 - Society for Public Health Education

✯ 2010 SOPHE Awards ✯
✯ open society award ✯
This award recognizes an individual or group who embodies and
promotes an Open Society through research, practice, and/or teaching.
Stephen B. Thomas, PHD, FAAHB
Stephen Thomas is one of the nation’s leading advocates in
the effort to eliminate health disparities. He is currently the
Director of the Center for Health Equity at the University of
Maryland’s School of Public Health. Prior to this position,
Dr. Thomas was the director of the Center for Minority
Health and the Philip Hallen Professor of Community
Health and Social Justice at the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate
School of Public Health (GSPH). Under Dr. Thomas’s leadership, the
Center implemented community-based interventions that range from
the development of culturally tailored health communication materials
designed to address an individual’s risk behaviors to using mass media
to advocate for policy change. In 2005, Dr. Thomas received the David
Satcher Award from the Directors of Health Promotion and Education
for demonstrating leadership in reducing health disparities that have
resulted in the improvement of health promotion and health education
programs at the state and local levels.
Additionally, Dr. Thomas served for seven years as an associate professor
in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education at
Atlanta’s Emory University. While there, he founded and became director
of the Institute for Minority Health Research at the Rollins School of
Public Health. Dr. Thomas was also a visiting scientist from 1996 to 1998
at The National Center for HIV/AIDS, STD and TB Prevention, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. He also has held faculty
positions at several universities, including the University of Maryland,
where he was co-founder and director of the Minority Health Research
Laboratory; Southern Illinois University; and the University of North
Carolina. Dr. Thomas received his bachelor’s degree from Ohio State
University and earned his doctorate in community health education
from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
✯ 2010 sarah mazelis -
best paper of the year ✯
This paper recognizes author(s) whose peer-reviewed article has been
published in SOPHE’s journal Health Promotion Practice in the last year
and has significant contributions to advancing the practice of health education
and health promotion programs, policy, or professional preparation.
Settings for Health Promotion: An Analytic Framework to Guide Intervention
Design and Implementation by Blake Poland, Gene Krupa, and
Douglas McCall; Health Promotion Practice, October 2009, 10(4): 505-516.
✯ 2010 lawrence w. green -
best paper of the year ✯
This paper recognizes author(s) whose peer-reviewed article has been published
in SOPHE’s journal Health Education & Behavior in the last year
and has made significant contributions to understanding health education,
health status, and strategies to improve social and behavioral health.
TBA
✯ 2009-2010 sophe/cdc fellows ✯
2009-10 sophe/cdc child & adolescent student fellowship
This fellowship recognizes, assists, and trains graduate students working
on projects in child and adolescent health from the perspective of health
education or the behavioral sciences. The recognition represents the
culmination of their year-long work.
Jagdish Khubchandani, PhD (c), MD, MPH, CHES
Jagdish Khubchandani is an Assistant Professor of Community
Health Education at the Ball State University. He earned
his Medical Degree from India, Masters in Public Health from
Western Kentucky University, and a PhD in health education
from the University of Toledo. His research interests are in the
area of clinical epidemiology, youth violence, health related outcomes of
intimate partner violence in adolescence, and the roles of school personnel
in preventing youth violence.
Laura L. Colbert, MPH
Laura Colbert recently graduated from Emory University with
a Master of Public Health Degree. As the SOPHE Fellow for
Child, Adolescent, and School Health, Laura developed and
piloted a curriculum for middle school students, to be used in
an after-school or summer camp setting. She hopes to implement
this curriculum in the Atlanta Public School system in the current
school year. In addition to school wellness programming and curricula,
Laura is interested in health literacy and increased access to care.
2009-10 sophe/cdc injury prevention student fellowship
This fellowship program recognizes, assists, and trains graduate students
working on injury prevention projects from the perspective of health
education or behavioral sciences. The recognition represents the culmination
of their year-long work.
Catherine J. Vladutiu, PhD, (c), MPH
Catherine Vladutiu is a doctoral candidate in the Department
of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina Gillings
School of Global Public Health. Ms. Vladutiu received a Master
of Public Health degree in Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology
at the University of Rochester School of Medicine &
Dentistry in New York. Much of her research has focused on
maternal and child health and injury prevention. In particular, Ms. Vladutiu
is interested in the intersection between perinatal health and injury
epidemiology. Her current research examines adverse maternal and fetal
outcomes resulting from trauma during pregnancy.
Dorian Lamas, PhD (c), MA
Dorian Lamas is a doctoral student in Clinical-Community
Psychology at the University of South Carolina. He received
his Master of Arts degree in Clinical Psychology from East
Tennessee State University. His research focuses on suicidal
behaviors and alcohol use and abuse in adolescents and
young adults.
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sophe conference ✯ november 4-6, 2010