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Email: eauld@sophe.org
Disclosure statement:
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: has spent some 30 years working in the field of health education and health promotion, mostly devoted to non-profit organizations located in Washington, DC. In 1995, she was appointed Executive Director of the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE), where she oversees the Society’s portfolio of professional publications, meetings, research and advocacy on behalf of health education and health communications. Ms. Auld’s publications and interests are related to health education credentialing and standards, workforce development, and public policy.
Among her notable accomplishments are leading efforts to gain recognition by the U.S. Departments of Labor and Commerce of “health educator” as a distinct occupational classification in 1998; conceptualizing and organizing the Annual Health Education Advocacy Summit, now in its 11th year, and the related Health Education Advocate website; organizing Congressional briefings and testifying before Congress and several Institute of Medicine committees on behalf of health education; and helping develop the Health Education Research Agenda for the elimination of health disparities in 2005.
Elaine was an advisor to the first Health Education Graduate Standards in 1996, and the Competency Update Project (CUP) released a decade later, to provide updated competencies and skills for the field. For the last nine years, she has been involved in efforts to strengthen quality assurance/accreditation systems for the professional preparation of health education specialists and has been a site visitor for the Council on Education for Public Health. She serves as an advisor to the Council of Accredited MPH Programs and has been a certified health education specialist since 1989. Over the last two decades, Elaine has served in multiple leadership roles for the PHEHP Section, on APHA’s Executive Board and three terms on APHA’s Joint Policy Committee. In 1997, she received the Section’s Judith R. Miller Award and in 2007, she received the Sarah Mazelis Award.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
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