Health Educator
Health educators promote, maintain, and help improve individual and community health by providing information and knowledge that encourages positive change in individual and community behavior. Health educators often collect and analyze data to identify needs before planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating programs that encourage healthy lifestyles, policies, and environments. They may also help administer fiscal resources for health education programs.
JFK University offers several programs, courses, and certificates that support your interest in becoming a health educator.
The School of Holistic Studies (SHS) offers the MA in Holistic Health Education, emphasizing health education from a holistic, integrated perspective. Through its particular focus on wellness, you learn to integrate alternative and mainstream approaches, East and West thought approaches, science and spirit into issues faced by health educators and their clients.
The School of Education and Liberal Arts (SELA) offers the BA in Science, Health, and Living Systems, a program that integrates the study of preventive health and wellness, genetics, health ecology, and sustainability. You’ll experience a holistic approach to appreciating the factors, conditions, relationships, and interactions that stimulate, sustain, or impede human potential. The BA in Social Ecology recognizes the complex dynamics of a whole person (mind, body, spirit) that exists within a vast web of living systems.
The Graduate School of Professional Psychology (GSPP) provides many programs that offer prospective health educators the knowledge, skills, and understanding to help individuals, families, and groups reach their potential. In addition to the PsyD degree, you’ll find master’s programs in counseling psychology, sport psychology, and organizational psychology, with a certificate in coaching that helps graduates establish consulting practices to address health education issues.
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