Welcome to the RUHS Health Education Department

The Department of Health Education (DHE) supports the university's mission of teaching, research, and community service through its work of:

• Teaching courses for credit, offering training of students/faculty/staff, and the supervising and mentoring of interns and volunteers;
• Serving as service learning advisors, instructors, and community partners;
• Conducting and partnering in research and on grants, e.g. on alcohol/tobacco social norms and specific student health behavior;
• Collaborating with students, faculty, staff, and the community in a broad range of projects to advance student and community health.

Our department mission is to discover and research ethically models of social justice and student support to improve student outcomes and build healthy leaders. We do this through teaching, community service, research, collaborations, environmental and institutional change, advocacy, public information, and staff and student development and support.

An effective college health service emphasizes certain features important to student and institutions of higher education, including a strong health education and campus outreach component (ACHA1993).