Su-I Hou and Joel Lee, faculty members in the College of Public Health, were among 500 qualifying health professionals to receive the inaugural certification in public health from the National Board of Public Health Examiners.
Hou, an associate professor of health promotion and behavior, currently serves as undergraduate coordinator in the department of health promotion and behavior. A professor of health policy and management, Lee also is an associate dean of the college.
The NBPHE was launched to demonstrate that graduates from schools accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health and programs of public health have mastered required core and cross-cutting competencies to address the need for greater recognition of public health as a health profession.
