Our Team
Wayne Hartzell, Health Education Team Leader
Wayne Hartzell
holds a Masters Degree in Health Education from the Pennsylvania
State University (USA).
He has over 10 years senior program management experience, developing, managing and monitoring domestic and international public health education programs. His work in HIV/AIDS prevention/risk harm reduction for US and international donors includes several years spent in India and Bangladesh developing, implementing and managing, family planning and HIV/AIDS/risk harm reduction programs. Wayne's expertise and experience is in providing needs assessments, focus group surveys, capacity building, and public health education/HIV/AIDS/STD prevention training for domestic and international audiences, gender equality/empowerment, and program design, start up and close out. His background has lead him to passionately adopt a proactive approach to Public Health Education, one that encompasses a holistic mindset that empowers the individual to want to take responsibility and control of their own health, access to health education and public health services. Wayne also has a limited working knowledge of conversational Bangla (Bengali) and is currently studying conversational Hindi.
Wayne's Vision for Public Health Education stems from his belief that public health education, its delivery, access to, and services that it provides-needs to be culturally sensitive, consumer friendly, community driven, and must empower the beneficiaries to want to take proactive responsibility for their own personal health and well being. "As individuals adopt new health practices on their own terms they have the potential to positively impact the larger community as a whole. This transfer of ownership of health education programs, services and global health goals to the individual at the community level, are redefining and shaping public health perceptions and its efficacy in the international global health context. By working 'together', we can all make a positive and meaningful impact to public health programs, goals, services provided, and access to health care by empowering the individual and community-one person at a time."
