Health Education and Promotion

Meet Daniella, the former master challenger of the HEP master 🙋‍♀️

Daniella graduated from the HEP master last semester, and is now working as a health promoter in the school health division in Canada. She mainly works to support school boards to promote the Healthy School program.
Healthy Schools is an evidence-based framework for building healthy school communities. This approach works beyond the classroom, involving students, staff, parents and community partners. Daniella collaborate with school administrators, students, community members, public health nurses, youth engagement specialists and other health promoters to develop health programs and facilitate implementation/evaluation.
Next to this, she is also working on other projects such as the "screenagers" campaign which aims to reduce excessive screen time for youth and cannabis/vaping workshops for school staff and parents.

What was the most important thing she learned during the master program?

"One of the most important courses for me was the Intervention Mapping course. It really thought me the key steps of developing a health program. This course has helped me so much with my job and has truly showed me how successful the work of evidence-based practice is. Also, health promotion really encompasses working on teams and with diverse groups of people, and that is why I think the group work throughout the master is a fundamental part of the program!"