Health educators play an important role in every child’s education. They teach children and teenagers about nutrition, personal health, exercise, sexuality and substances. In many ways, they become ...

Source: Ilan Kelman Mental health literacy can overcome the reticence to talk about mental health and well-being. The Mental Health Literacy Collaborative, founded in 2023, has promoted and ...

A poll by the American Psychiatric Association indicates widespread support for expanding mental health education in schools. Rawle Andrews Jr., executive director of the American Psychiatric ...

The COVID-19 pandemic raised awareness of the law’s power to impact population health, positively and negatively. COVID-19 revealed how longstanding social inequities—structured by law—can quickly ...

UW–Madison’s Health Promotion and Health Equity (HPHE) program blends kinesiology, counseling psychology, and public health to prepare students for diverse roles in health education. Students can ...

As the planet’s health declines, human health increasingly suffers. We can change this trajectory through a global Planetary ...

Teaching kids how to be healthy and practice good hygiene is only part of what a health education major covers. As a health education specialist, you could find yourself working in a community setting ...

Two years ago, Texas students received updated health curriculum, including instruction on human sexuality, across all grade levels. It was the first time since the 1990s the Texas State Board of ...

In 1993, the Medical College of Pennsylvania became the first medical school in the country to completely integrate women's health issues into its curriculum. In contrast to schools which present ...

Chicago-based Adtalem Global Education is again changing its name, this time to Covista, to reflect the for-profit company’s pivot toward health care education. The company was previously called DeVry ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...