The author is an experienced professional health educator with an undergraduate and graduate degree in health education and a doctorate in education with a specialization in educational leadership ...view moreThe author is an experienced professional health educator with an undergraduate and graduate degree in health education and a doctorate in education with a specialization in educational leadership and management. His educational background and experience entail advanced multifaceted competencies. They are related to assessing the cultural, psychological, social, economic, and political determinants of health and health-related behaviors. As well as developing and implementing educational and other interventions based on ecological models of health behavior and behavioral change that are appropriate to the various educational practice settings and which have the potential to result in voluntary health-related behavioral and social change among individuals, groups, and populations, and their communities; and conducting program evaluation and applied research in health education.view less