In 1993, the Medical College of Pennsylvania became the first medical school in the country to completely integrate women's health issues into its curriculum. In contrast to schools which present ...

People who participated in a health education program that included both mental health and physical health information significantly reduced their risks of cardiovascular disease and other chronic ...

Health educators play an important role in every child’s education. They teach children and teenagers about nutrition, personal health, exercise, sexuality and substances. In many ways, they become ...

Menu Programs Affiliated Student Organizations Internships HAWKS Peer Health Education Peer education is students learning from other students. Peer Health Educators provide information, lead ...

To become a Certified Health Education Specialist, you need to earn a bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in health education, public health or a related field and then pass the CHES® certification exam ...

Roughly 50 percent of all mental health conditions begin before people are in their mid-teens even though most go undetected and untreated. Adding to this, suicide is one of the top causes of death in ...

Most children in the US attend early care and education (ECE) such as public or private preschool, child care centers, or Head Start before entering kindergarten. High-quality ECE programs can promote ...

Building on new research surveying current curricular practices in schools and programs of public health (SPPH), we offer steps that SPPH might take to make public health law a “core requirement” in ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

More than one in three women in the United States have experienced intimate partner violence (IPV) and research shows that 25% of women experience this for the first time during pregnancy. The ...