Health Education and Behavioral Sciences Unit Established

The University’s College of Medicine and Health Sciences recently established the Health Education and Behavioral Sciences Unit within the Institute of Public Health. The unit was established because the College recognizes that conducting health education and promoting behavioral change are effective strategies to improving the health and wellbeing of university students, staff, the Gondar community and the nation. The unit activities focus on disease prevention of the communicable diseases and chronic ailments in Ethiopia.
Four staff members with education and experience in health education and behavioral change have been recruited to the unit. Their primary responsibility is classroom teaching in the University’s public health, medicine, nursing and allied health campus programs. They will also conduct university-wide health promotion programs; participate in community mobilization activities with an emphasis on maternal-child issues; and facilitate applied health education research activities. The unit is headed by Resom Berhe, MPH. The unit office is located in Science Amba of the medical school campus.