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?