Digital Institute for Higher Education Academy - Friday

Lloyd Kolbe is Emeritus Professor at Indiana University School of Public Health. He conducts health policy research and development to improve the health and education of young people in the U.S. and other nations; has held senior appointments within private-sector, academic, and federal government agencies; and served from 1985-2003 as founding director of CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health.

Diane was an Associate Professor of Health Education at Kent State University, an Executive Director of the American School Health Association, and also worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta as a Branch Chief of Programs for the Division of Adolescent and School Health. She has traveled frequently throughout the United States and overseas delivering speeches and serving as a primary consultant promoting the coordinated school health model. Since retirement, she has worked as a consultant for HealthMPowers, a non–profit organization that promotes the adoption of healthy nutrition and physical activity behaviors in students, their teachers and their families while promoting a quality school health
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Bridget Borgogna is a health education specialist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Population Health, where she serves as a Project Officer and manager for the Training Tools for Healthy Schools professional development trainings. She is a member of the Program and Professional Development team, and provides expertise and technical assistance for professional development internally and with external partners. Bridget was a health and physical education teacher and worked at the GA Department of Education as the state’s Safe and Drug Free Schools and HIV Prevention Coordinator. She also was an international Master Trainer for the Lions Quest Programs, as well as for her own Training and Consulting business. She earned her Bachelor of Education degree from SUNY Brockport, Brockport, NY and a Master of Education degree from the University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, and a Curriculum and Supervision certificate from the University of Georgia. Bridget has served on the ASHA Board of Directors for two years, and is currently the Future Leaders Academy facilitator.

M. Elaine Auld, MPH, MCHES, is the chief executive officer, emerita, for the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE). As SOPHE’s chief executive officer from 1995 to 2021 she oversaw the organization’s portfolio in professional preparation, professional development, research, publications, and advocacy. Over her more than 40-year career, Ms. Auld has published some 50 journal articles and book chapters on the profession’s role in community and school health education, health equity, national and international workforce development, and public policy. With regard to the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child model, Ms. Auld was principal investigator on several Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cooperative agreements that provided training and materials development for professionals, promoted the model as part of the National Task Force on the Future of School Health Education, and helped establish SOPHE’s School Health Teacher Education Standards used in credentialing.

Jordan Fuhrmeister, MPH, CHES is an Associate Project Director at the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE). She brings her background in federal and state grant administration and public health non-profit management to lead the CDC Healthy Schools and CDC Arthritis cooperative agreements. Additional portfolios she directs include SOPHE Awards, Professional Preparation, and the National Committee on the Future of School Health Education. She has overseen and contributed to various CDC funded field resources for school health educators, and co-authored literature in areas of opioid addiction, school health, and childhood obesity to inform health policy and practice.

Rachael Dombrowski, PhD, MPH, designs, implements and evaluates multilevel interventions to advance social justice and improve community health. Dr. Dombrowski is a faculty member of California State University San Marcos where she conducts community-based participatory research, including program development and evaluation within the Midwest and nation-wide. Dr. Dombrowski serves as an evaluator for the Best Food Forward school-based nutrition supports intervention, and recently conducted an assessment of over 300 grocery stores for the Great Grocer Project. Prior to working in academia, Dr. Dombrowski spent over 10 years directing and evaluating several multilevel interventions focused on policy, systems and environmental change within schools, communities, hospitals and corner stores in suburban Cook County and Chicago, Illinois. She is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago (PhD) and the University of Michigan (MPH). She has worked in the public health field for over 15 years.

James Mallare is an Associate Researcher at Wayne State University He has assisted in research initiatives that cover experiences across the life span from childhood and adolescent nutrition to cognition and physical activity in the older adult population. His areas of interest are in nutrition and chronic disease in low socio-economic populations and the professional preparation of community and school health educators at institutions for higher education. A native Canadian, he is constantly looking for connections and opportunities to collaborate internationally on matters of education and betterment of health systems.

Tiffany Edgar is a Lecturer in the Sport Administration and Management Program at Wayne State University in the College of Education’s Kinesiology, Health and Sports Studies Division. With 10+ years of college teaching experience, Tiffany’s primary responsibilities include teaching courses online, asynchronously, for both graduate and undergraduate courses. She has completed several Quality Matter’s courses focusing on online course design and learner centered approaches to online learning, including earning the Quality Matter’s Teaching Online Certificate for Higher Education as well as the Accelerated K-12 Reviewer Course for Higher Education. Tiffany also has experience working in K-12 physical education, coaching college, high school, and competitive youth fast-pitch softball, and college athletic administration in the roles of Senior Women’s Administrator and Athletic Academic Advisor.