Presidential Adresses

Following is a collection of the annual addresses by SOPHE Presidents that are presented during the SOPHE Annual Conference.

2022
Amy Thompson, PhD, CHES®
Speaking Truth to Power: Tactical Advocacy to Ensure the Future of Public Health

2021
Deborah Fortune, PhD, FAAHE
Preparing for the Unexpected: Implications for Leadership in Health Education

2020
Cam Escoffery, PhD, MPH, CHES®
Advancing Implementing Science with a Health Equity Perspective

2019
Jean M. Breny, PhD, MPH
Continuing the Journey Toward Health Equity: Becoming Antiracist in Health Promotion Research and Practice

2016
David A. Birch, PhD, MCHES®
Improving Schools, Improving School Health Education, Improving Public Health: The Role of SOPHE Members

2011
Robert S. Gold, DrPH, PhD, FASHA
The Days Are Long and the Years Are Short: A Year in the Shoes of a SOPHE President

2010
Daniel Perales, DrPH, MPH
Steps for Strengthening the Health Education Profession

2009
Diane Allensworth, PhD
Addressing the Social Determinants of Health of Children and Youth: A Role for SOPHE Members

2008
Kathryn Meier, MPH, CHES®
SOPHE at Sixty:The Best Is Yet to Come: 2009 SOPHE Presidential Address

2005
Stephen Gambescia, PhD, MBA, MA, MCHES®
SOPHE Presidential Address: Discovering a Philosophy of Health Education

2004
Collins Airhihenbuwa, PhD
SOPHE Presidential Address: On Being Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable: Centering an Africanist Vision in Our Gateway to Global Health

2000
Fran Butterfoss, PhD
2001 SOPHE Presidential Address: The Power of Partnerships

1998
Robert Goodman, PhD, MPH, MA
On Contemplation at 50: SOPHE Presidential Address, November 1999

1997
John P. Allegrante, PhD
SOPHE: At the Intersection of Education, Policy, and Science and Technology

1995
Ellen M. Capwell, PhD, MCHES®
Annual Report Closing Comments

1994
William C. Livingood, Jr., PhD, CHES®
Becoming a Health Education Proffesion: Key to Social Influence

1992
Cynthia Jorgensen, DrPH
Health Education: What can it look like after health care reform?

1988
Clarence E. Pearson, MPH*
Back and to the Future

1987
Michael P. Eriksen, ScD
Through the Looking Glass: The opportunity for a unified vision for SOPHE

1983
Lawrence W. Green, DrPH
What is the Society for Public Health Education if Not an Open Society? SOPHE Presidential Address 1984

1974
Beverly Ware, DrPH, CHES®*
New Spokes in the Wheel…Or a New Wheel

1970
Scott K. Simonds, DrPH
The Life Space of the Health Education Profession

1968
Theron Butterworth, PhD*
Comments of the President

1965
Jerome Grossman, PhD*
Health Education: Cool medium in a hot world

1963
Thomas Roberson, MPH*
Our Common Challenge

1962
Jeannette J. Simmons, DrSc, MPH*
Reflections on Fulfilling our Professional Responsibilities

1961
Mary P. Armstrong, MPH*
Report to Members

1957
Howard W. Ennes, Jr., MPH*
How We See Ourselves

1954
Sol S. Lifson, MPH*
The Job Ahead (for SOPHE)

1950
Clair E. Turner, DrPH*
Whither Health Education?