Abstract
We are very excited to have all our new editorial team on board and complete our transition. Until December of 2017, Health Education & Behavior (HE&B) was led by our esteemed colleague, John P. Allegrante. As John graciously passed on the baton (and the challenge!), we looked around the world and our field to form a new team who could advance the work that John and his team have done over the previous 7 years. And in this issue, we formally announce the new associate editors—a multidisciplinary group of five renowned scholars representing the breadth and the depth of our field.
Eric Breton, PhD, a Canadian, holds the Santé Publique France Chair in Health Promotion at L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique (EHESP School of Public Health; https://www.ehesp.fr/). Before settling in France, Eric acquired broad international experience in research in Canada, Australia, and the United Arab Emirates. The Santé Publique France Chair, funded by the French National Public Health Agency, is dedicated to research and training in the capacity building strategies to improve local actions on the social determinants of health for achieve health equity. He also sits on the High Council for Public Health (HCSP) Commission on Health System and Patient Security and on the National Health Conference. In 2017, Eric published, with three other editors, the first health promotion handbook in French, a publication that has mobilized contributions from 40 authors from 6 countries.
David H. Chae, ScD, MA, holds a named Associate Professorship (Human Sciences Associate Professor) in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, in the College of Human Sciences at Auburn University. David directs the Center for Health Ecology and Equity Research. He received his doctoral degree in social epidemiology from Harvard and completed postdoctoral research as a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar at the University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley. David held faculty appointments at Emory University and the University of Maryland. His research focuses on the socio-psychobiological epidemiology of health inequities, and the interplay between social context, developmental period, behavior, and biology as they relate to susceptibility to, and progression of, diseases. He investigates biological consequences of racism that are common to multiple aging processes, including measures of systemic inflammation, endocrine stress markers, and leukocyte telomere length, which might help explain racial disparities across multiple morbidities.
Regine Haardörfer, PhD, MEd, is a Research Assistant Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University. Regine is not new to HE&B—she started working as Associate Editor under the leadership of John P. Allegrante. She is a research methodologist and has extensive experience in the analysis of social science data, including longitudinal, dyadic, and nested data, and has developed and applied innovative and sophisticated methodological approaches to advance behavioral sciences in public health. She has a background in education and currently teaches graduate courses in introductory and advanced statistical methods such as multilevel and structural equation modeling using original teaching methods such as flipped classrooms and just-in-time teaching. Regine’s works aim at moving forward public health science through the evaluation and application of advanced and novel statistical methods. Her research is grounded in feminist epistemology and philosophical frameworks that value the democratization of knowledge (e.g., Michel Foucault) and the need to co-create knowledge (e.g., Paulo Freire).
Lisa M. Kuhns, PhD, MPH, is Research Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, and Associate Director of the Center for Gender, Sexuality and HIV Prevention at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital, Division of Adolescent Medicine. Lisa’s research interests include health and social behavior, prevention science, HIV/AIDS, sexual and gender minority health, and adolescent health promotion. She is a member of the Editorial Board of Transgender Health. Lisa has been an investigator on more than 10 studies funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Health Resources & Services Administration, among others. Together with colleagues, Lisa has developed evidence-based interventions for HIV prevention and health promotion among high-risk youth, which have been recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Health Resources & Services Administration.
Lisa D. Lieberman, PhD, CHES, has had a long-term relationship with HE&B, working as an Associate Editor for two previous editors. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health at Montclair State University, and is the Coordinator for the Master of Public Health program. She holds a PhD in health behavior and health education from the University of Michigan. Her scholarly work focuses on mixed-methods research and evaluation of approaches to sex education, adolescent sexual decision-making, campus sexual assault climate, tobacco control, and structural (policy, systems, and environmental) approaches to health promotion. Lisa served as Chair of the New York State’s Office of Children and Family Services Research Working Group, as a consultant to the U.S. Office of Populations Affairs, and currently is a member of the data committee for the North Jersey Health Collaborative and Vice President of the Rockland Alliance for Health in New York. She is also in the editorial board of Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health. Lisa leads our journal’s section Policy, Environmental, and Structural Approaches.
As the Editor-in-Chief, I am so thankful and honored to have this stellar quintet of scholars working with me promoting the mission of HE&B. The team is complemented by our Editorial Manager, Liz Marshall, MPH, who makes us all function in unison, and by the SAGE group, who leads the commercialization and production aspects of the journal. We are devoted to work with our community of authors, reviewers, and readers to showcase the best ideas in the field.