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Eugenia Eng, DrPH, Health Behavior and Health Education, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Rosenau Hall - Campus Box 7440, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7400, (919) 966-3909, eugenia_eng@unc.edu

The footprints left by Mayhew Derryberry on the field of health education are indelible. The path he forged for health education to merge with the behavioral sciences is now paved and well marked by the agencies, scientific journals and anthologies, awards, and professional organizations that his work has inspired. His groundbreaking work with the U.S. Public Health Service moved the field of health education away from an intimate kinship with the field of education’s cognitive learning theories and principles of teaching. Instead, Derryberry’s vision and leadership moved health education toward becoming an instrument of social and behavioral change, concerned with enabling individuals, their families and communities, and the institutions serving them to ensure the conditions necessary for people to be in good health. Of special significance is the impact of individuals he had mentored, such as Godfrey Hochbaum, who in 1971, was among the first faculty recruited by Guy Steuart, when Steuart assumed the position of Chair of the Department of Health Education at the School of Public Health of the University of North Carolina. This paper reports on their intellectual debates, in the form of memos circulated among faculty and students, which were aimed at stimulating a climate for engaging in critical thinking, asking important questions, and generating new ideas about ensuring the conditions for people to be in good health.

Learning Objectives: By the end of this session attendees will be able to

• Identify the impact of Mayhew Derryberry on the work of Godfrey Hochbaum and other behavioral and social scientists at the U.S. Public Health Service; and
• Discuss how the intellectual debates stimulated by Derryberry's colleagues and those he mentored have engaged subsequent generations of behavioral and social scientists in public health to engage in critical thinking, ask important questions, and generate new ideas about ensuring the conditions for people to be in good health.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.

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