328 AAHE 2012 Scholar: Health Education Leadership: Looking to the Future

Thursday, April 25, 2013: 10:15 AM-11:30 AM
Convention Center: 203B
Presider: Caile E. Spear, Boise State University, Boise, ID
Speaker: Kelli McCormack Brown, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
What is happening with our undergraduate, masters’, and PhD degree programs in health education? There seems to be a steady decline in both UG and masters level health education programs while there is an increase in MPH programs. While PhD programs in health education have not declined they are not growing, why is this? What is happening within our institutions of higher education and outside higher education that is driving this?