Society for Public Health Education
10 G St, NE
Suite 605
Washington
DCUSA
20002
Biographical Sketch: Elaine Auld is Chief Executive Officer for the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE), in Washington, DC, and has spent some 30 years working in the field of health education, health promotion, and health communications. For the last decade, 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. Her publications and interests are related to health education credentialing and standards, workforce development, public policy, and health equity. A certified health education specialist since 1989, 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 health education profession.