You must be committed to advocating for the rights of people to have the ability and the resources to make healthy choices. Health educators become experts at group process and communication. As a health educator, you will work with people to help them understand themselves and the things that determine their health status. We serve as advocates for asserting the personal or collective power to change and work closely with communities to facilitate that process. In your professional preparation as a health educator, you will learn a series of skills which will enable you to assist communities and individuals to achieve their goals of health promotion and risk reduction.
Health educators do many things in a variety of different settings.
We also work with people across the age span, including children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly. The Department of Health Education at San Francisco State University is a small department with a commitment to both student learning and the quality of student life. We take the teaching and mentoring of our students very seriously. In a recent survey of our alumni, nine out of ten students rated the quality of the teaching faculty as excellent or good, and eight out of ten report they would highly recommend or recommend the major to others. Our alumni also give us good grades on both faculty advising and mentoring of students.