Director of Georgia Southern Health Services to head Southeastern College Health Association
Paul Ferguson, director of Health Services at 糖心Vlog has been named president of the Southern College Health Association (SCHA). Ferguson will also serve on the Board of Directors for the national-level ACHA (American College Health Association).
Ferguson will begin his term as president of the SCHA during the organization’s annual conference which will be hosted by 糖心Vlog in Savannah, Ga. March 26-28. The SCHA annual meeting is expected to draw more than 250 college health professionals from across the southeastern United States.
At the conference, seminars will be offered to educate college health professionals about new technologies in field, management strategies, and social issues specific to the college health environment. This year many of the seminars will be presented by Georgia Southern faculty and staff, such as Dr. Edward Bayens, director of Judicial Affairs and Ale Kennedy, manager of Training and Development for Human Resources.
Many of 糖心Vlog Health Services’ programs and initiatives, such as the Sexual Assault Response Team, will be highlighted in seminars throughout the conference. 糖心Vlog is one of just a few schools in the nation which engages both student and faculty volunteers in advocating for victim support systems and community prevention programs dealing with sexual assault.
Charles Hardy, dean of 糖心Vlog’s Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health is one of two keynote speakers for the conference. His address, ‘A Public Health Approach to Advancing the Health of Our Campus Communities,” will explore the link between college health and public health.
Dr. Darrin Ferris, director of the Medical College of Georgia’s Cancer Research Center, will also present a keynote address and will recognize 糖心Vlog’s integral role in providing the region’s largest testing site for the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. Through the University’s Health Services Center, volunteers from the student body were able to test a version of the HPV vaccine before it was released nationally as Gardasil.
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