Instructors
Jihan Dana is a professor of public health at Al Quds University in the West Bank. She graduated with her BSc in 1994 and served as a teacher in government schools for five years. A mother of four, she was accepted to Al Quds University to study for a Masters in Public Health (MPH) when her youngest was three. She graduated in 2011 with high marks. Her thesis was titled, “Evaluation of school health programmes in Governments schools of Hebron City.” After earning her MPH, Prof. Dana worked as a project coordinator/ program assistant with World Vision on a project based in Bani Naim and Yatta. She also lead a two-year environmental project, the Environmental Leaders Project, which was funded by the US Forest Service for youth aged 10-15 years in Hebron.
In 2015 she joined the faculty of Al Quds Open University where she teaches in the health science programs. Prof. Dana is currently conducting a study looking at teachers’ knowledge and practice of self-breast exam and also explores health issues relating to human nutrition and maternal/child health. |
Dr. Jody Early an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and Health Studies at the University of Washington Bothell. Her research, teaching, and service demonstrate her long-standing commitment to improving community capacity, education, and health for all. Dr. Early’s research primarily focuses on the connection between digital equity and health equity. Over the last 20 years, she has worked in and with communities and on cross-disciplinary teams to develop, implement and evaluate, culturally tailored health promotion programs, digital strategies, and higher education pathways, especially for and with Latinx communities.
She often applies Freirean and critical methodologies, including CBPR and participatory communication to co-create and evaluate culturally tailored health programs, services, and digital innovations. She has expertise as a PI and director of several tailored, grant-funded community health programs in WA, TX, and UT, and often works alongside community health workers and promotores, to help design and evaluate community engaged, “upstream” approaches that improve health education and social justice. Dr. Early has been recognized locally and nationally for her contributions to the health education profession and to higher education. She recently received the 2019 Karen Denard Goldman Distinguished Mentor Award from the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) and was awarded a Distinguished Teaching Award for Innovation with Technology from the University of Washington in 2017. In 2010, she was awarded the HEDIR Technology Award from the American Association for Health Education (AAHE) and Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE). She is a co-author of the text, The Process of Community Health Education & Promotion (Waveland Press; 2019;2010) and has published widely in journals such as: Health Promotion Practice, Global Health Promotion, Health Promotion Perspectives, Qualitative Health Research, and was a founding editorial board member of the journal, Pedagogy of Health Promotion: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. You can find her on Twitter at @Jody_Early. |