H1: Developing Tomorrow's Public Health Advocates: Design and Evaluation of an Advocacy-focused Undergraduate Immersive Course

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The H1 Session at the 2025 Annual Conference will include one presentation:

Developing Tomorrow’s Public Health Advocates: Design and Evaluation of an Advocacy-focused Undergraduate Immersive Course presented by Christina Doll, PhD

Participants should leave this presentation able to: demonstrate how to design an effective public health advocacy course at the undergraduate level which focuses on the development of key advocacy skills as a primary focus, describe how to adapt and tailor public health advocacy course instructional strategies to one's own public health curriculum, and explain how to integrate immersive learning opportunities into the instruction of advocacy courses

This session will be moderated by Alexis Blavos

Sponsored by SOPHE, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES®) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES®) to receive up to 1.00 total Category I contact education contact hours. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours available are 0.

Alexis Blavos, PhD, MCHES®

Associate Professor

SUNY Cortland

Dr. Blavos is currently an Associate Professor in the Health Department at SUNY Cortland, and also serves as the National Director of Advocacy for Eta Sigma Gamma, the Deputy Coordinator and Webmaster for the Coalition of National Health Education Organizations, and the co-chair of the Society for Public Health’s advocacy committee. Dr. Blavos’ academic and work experiences include 10 years of service in the public health field as a practitioner and researcher. Among her many research interests are advocacy and health policy.

Christina Doll

PhD

Dr. Christina Doll is an Associate Professor of Public Health in the Department of Nutrition and Health Science. She received her PhD from Purdue University in Communication Studies in 2013. Her specialization is in investigating the relationship between food insecurity and health, specifically analyzing communication strategies and structural changes that encourage healthy decision-making in food pantry environments. Dr. Doll is a recipient of the 2016 National Communication Association’s Golden Monograph Award, which is a competitively selected achievement bestowed at the top publication in the discipline of the prior year, as well as the 2019 Society for Public Health Education Horizon Award for early-career professionals.

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04/18/2025 at 9:45 AM (PDT) | 45 minutes

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Developing Tomorrow's Public Health Advocates: Design and Evaluation of an Advocacy-focused Undergraduate Immersive Course

1.00 Category I CE Contact Hours credit | Certificate available

1.00 Category I CE Contact Hours credit | Certificate available Sponsored by the Society for Public Health Education, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES®) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES®) to receive up to 1.0 total Category I continuing education contact hours.

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