Community Health Programs
Professional Development Opportunities (Noncredit Programs)

2010 Study Tour to Great Britain:
Health Education and Health Promotion Practices

Join study tour co-directors, Dr's. Gary Gilmore, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and Christopher Squier, University of Iowa and be a part of this biennial experience in England and Wales. This study tour offers a firsthand opportunity to explore the British health care, health education, and health promotion systems, complemented by truly remarkable cultural experiences. Each participant will have work shadowing experiences with UK professionals based upon individual needs and interests. Venues include: London, Oxford University, The Jenner Clinic and Southhampton Medical School.

Goals of the Tour:

• To provide an overview of the health care system offered through the National Health Service (NHS) and other providers in Great Britain
• To compare and contrast the British health care system with the systems of health care delivery in the United States
• To provide an overview of health education and health promotion strategies for health enhancement (individual and population-based) in Great Britain
• To compare and contrast the British health education and health promotion strategies with the strategies applied in the United States
• To connect participants with key cultural aspects of Great Britain that have health-related impacts
• To engage participants in individualized work shadowing (practical experience) opportunities that align with their interests and professional needs
• To provide an historic, social and cultural context for health and health promotion in Great Britain

3.2 CEUs, 18 Category I CECHs for Certified Health Educators or 1 university credit (UG) is also available.

Feb/March, 2010
Please check back for more information as it becomes available.

If you'd like to be sent more information when it becomes available, please contact continuinged@uwlax.edu and we'll add you to our mailing list.

For more Information:
Karen Langaard, Non-Credit Program Coordinator
608.785.6508 or langaard.kare@uwlax.edu

Co-Directors

Dr. Gary Gilmore has held a joint appointment since 1974 with the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and the University of Wisconsin-Extension. He is Professor and Director of Community Health Programs. His prior experiences were in public health and preventive medicine at the Bergen County Health Department, N.J., and at the Preventive Medicine Unit, General Leonard Wood Hospital, U.S. Army (recipient of the Army Commendation Medal in Preventive Medicine). His training in epidemiology and public health is through the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota, with additional training in epidemiology at the New England Epidemiology Institute, Tufts University. He is the founding and continuing Director of the first Master of Public Health Program (CEPH accredited since 1992) offered in the University of Wisconsin System. The program was ranked 6th in the nation by the 2004 U.S. News and World Report ranking of the Best Graduate Programs in Community Health. He has served on the American Cancer Society National Board of Directors during 1986-1996, and 1999-2002, and is the recipient of the St. George Medal. Dr. Gilmore received the 2001 Regents Teaching Excellence Award bestowed by the Board of Regents, University of Wisconsin System. Dr. Gilmore is the President of the National Council of Accredited MPH Programs. Regarding international experience, during 1999-2000, Dr. Gilmore served as the first Fulbright Senior Scholar at the All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, Calcutta, India. In that capacity, he taught graduate students and medical practitioners in principles of public health and conducted population-based research in West Bengal. Dr. Gilmore serves as the first President of the Seven Rivers Region Fulbright Chapter in Western Wisconsin.

Dr. Christopher Squier is Director of Graduate Studies and Professor, Department of Oral Pathology, Radiology and Medicine in the College of Dentistry and directs the Global Health Studies Program at the University of Iowa. He has degrees from the Universities of Cambridge and London and a Fellowship from the Royal College of Pathologists of London. He has served on the faculty at the London Hospital Medical College and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Squier’s research focuses on oral mucosal disease including oral cancer, and on tobacco control and he has published almost 200 books, chapters and peer-reviewed articles and made over 50 invited presentations abroad in the past 21 years. Dr. Squier has received awards for his work from the International Association for Dental Research and the American Cancer Society. In 1992 he received the Regents Award for Faculty Excellence from the Iowa Board of Regents and in 2001 was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from Semmelweis University, Budapest, for his work on tobacco and oral cancer in Hungary. He was made an honorary member of the British Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology in 2007. Dr. Squier has served on the Iowa Commission for Tobacco Use Prevention and Control since 2002. He has ongoing collaborations on tobacco control in Hungary and the Ukraine.