The Health Education and Physical Activity (HEPA) Master’s program is proud to present its first poster contest, which is part of its ongoing knowledge dissemination initiative. The graduate program offers a broad scope in the area of health education and is designed for students who are pursuing careers in academia, school and community health, and other health-related professions.
The HEPA cohort is led by Dr. Sandra Vamos, an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education specializing in health education, and the project is a collaboration with Health and Counselling Services to promote a healthy SFU campus. A healthy campus embraces the concept of health as multidimensional, and respects the integrated means by which culturally-diverse individuals and communities holistically function, incorporating physical, psychological, social, spiritual, intellectual, environmental, and occupational components of well-being.
The HEPA graduate students designed posters to help disseminate critical information about their assessment of the SFU Burnaby campus, utilizing ASCD’s Healthy School Report Card Canada Edition (HSRCC). This tool is an effective mechanism which helps highlight the school improvement process, coordinating students, staff, and health-related professionals to create healthy school communities.
Dr. Vamos is inviting all faculty members, staff and students to visit the poster gallery then vote for the best poster design and help raise awareness about health education and promotion on our campus. All votes will be automatically entered into a prize draw.
The contest deadline is December 7, 2007 and the winner will be announced on January 7, 2008.
For further information, please contact Dr. Sandra Vamos at svamos@sfu.ca.