History
SOPHE is a dynamic nonprofit professional organization representing the discipline of health education and health promotion.
Initially founded in 1950 as the Society of Public Health Educators, and reported incorporation of SOPHE in New York on May 2, 1952.
SOPHE provides global leadership to the profession and promotes the health of society through:
- Advances in health education theory and research
- Excellence in professional preparation and practice
- Advocacy for public policies conducive to health
- Achievement of health equity for all
Celebrating Our History
Through the Decades
- SOPHE History 2000_2009
- SOPHE History 1990-1999
- SOPHE History 1980-1989
- SOPHE History 1970-1979
- SOPHE-History-1960-1969
- SOPHE History 1950-1959
Past SOPHE Leadership
2023 Raffy R. Luquis, PhD, MCHES®
2022 Amy Thompson, PhD, CHES®
2021 Deborah Fortune, PhD, FAAHE
2020 Cam Escoffery, PhD, MPH, CHES®
2019 Jean M. Breny, PhD, MPH
2018 Angela Mickalide, PhD, MCHES®
2017 Adenike Bitto, MD, DrPH, MCHES®
2016 David A. Birch, PhD, MCHES®
2015 Sandra Bulmer, PhD
2014 Kelly Bishop, MA, MCHES®, FASHA
2013 Kelli McCormack Brown, PhD, CHES®
2012 Kelli McCormack Brown, PhD, CHES®**
2011 Robert S. Gold, DrPH, PhD, FASHA
2010 Daniel Perales, DrPH, MPH
2009 Diane Allensworth, PhD
2008 Kathryn Meier, MPH, CHES®
2007 Robert Simmons, DrPH, MPH, MCHES®, CPH
2006 Elizabeth Howze, ScD, CHES®
2005 Stephen Gambescia, PhD, MBA, MA, MCHES®
2004 Collins Airhihenbuwa, PhD
2003 David Ramsey, MPH, CHES®
2002 Sue Lachenmayr, MPH, CHES®
2001 Karen Denard Goldman, PhD, MCHES®*
2000 Fran Butterfoss, PhD
1999 Kathleen Roe, DrPH, MPH
1998 Robert Goodman, PhD, MPH, MA
1997 John P. Allegrante, PhD
1996 Randy Schwartz, MSPH
1995 Ellen M. Capwell, PhD, MCHES®
1994 William C. Livingood, Jr., PhD, CHES®
1993 James N. Burdine, DrPH
1992 Cynthia Jorgensen, DrPH
1991 Jim Perkins, DrPH
1990 Nell H. Gottlieb, PhD
1989 Paul R. Mico, MPH, CHES®*
1988 Clarence E. Pearson, MPH*
1987 Michael P. Eriksen, ScD
1986 Brian S. Flynn, ScD
1985 Noreen M. Clark, PhD*
1984 Ruth F. Richards, MPH*
1983 Lawrence W. Green, DrPH
1982 Edward J. Roccella, PhD, MPH*
1981 Richard A. Windsor, PhD, MPH, MS*
1980 Elizabeth McMahan, EdD
1979 Marcia Pinkett Heller, MPH
1978 Sigrid Deeds, DrPH, CHES®*
1977 Helen S. Ross, EdD, CHES®*
1976 Joe Fred Sills, PhD*
1975 Helen P. Cleary, DSc, CHES®*
1974 Beverly Ware, DrPH, CHES®*
1973 Donald Campbell, PhD*
1972 Florence B. Fiori, DrPH*
1971 Carol D’Onofrio, DrPH
1970 Scott K. Simonds, DrPH
1969 William Darity, PhD *
1968 Theron Butterworth, PhD*
1967 Betty Bond, PhD*
1966 Ralph Boatman, PhD*
1965 Jerome Grossman, PhD*
1964 H. J. Weddle, MPH *
1963 Thomas Roberson, MPH*
1962 Jeannette J. Simmons, DrSc, MPH*
1961 Mary P. Armstrong, MPH*
1960 Charlotte Leach, MPH*
1959 Norbert Reinstein, MPH*
1958 Beryl J. Roberts, DrPH*
1957 Howard W. Ennes, Jr., MPH*
1956 Ann W. Haynes, MPH*
1955 William Griffth, PhD*
1954 Sol S. Lifson, MPH*
1953 Lucy S. Morgan, PhD*
1952 Levitte B. Mendel, MPH*
1951 Mayhew Derryberry, PhD*
1950 Clair E. Turner, DrPH*
*Deceased
***transition to officer timeline to coincide with change in annual conference