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Greetings, my name is Jarmilka Hanek, and though it's more than quite late in the year for introductions, I thought it is better late than never.

Originally from California, I've been living in Switzerland for the last three years.  I have experience working in women's health, and clinical research, both on the academic side as well as the pharmaceutical side which is what I am currently doing.  I also have a background as a nutrition educator (from Bauman College http://www.baumancollege.org/) and believe food is powerful medicine!  I have a wide array of interests in the field of health, from mind-body medicine, the connection between spirituality and health, holistic approaches to health, women's health and the disparities between men and women in our society, to sustainable nutrition and plant based medicine.  As there are so, so, many factors that impact health in any given context, that are only now coming to light, exploring health promotion theory is an incredibly eye-opening experience and will certainly prove instrumental as I continue to move along the path of public health.

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Hi everyone. It's great to see where you all are from and what you are doing. I live in Thoiry, France and have been working in health for a while doing lots of different things, all mainly related to health promotion and the design and implementation of social marketing and behaviour change communications projects, and with organisations like Population Services International (PSI), Marie Stopes International and the WHO. I look forward to learning about the theory of health promotion in this course and about your different ideas about and experiences in health promotion. My aim is to learn, grow and be a better professional in this area. I'm linking here to a really interesting project I recently worked on related to improving child immunization uptake with colleagues at the WHO Regional Office for Europe on, called the Tailoring Immunization Programmes.

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I am from Finland and Germany married to a South African currently living in Frankfurt, Germany (after some years in Benin, Uk and Ethiopia). I have worked since about 10 years on water and sanitation supply. In my current role I am supporting most of the GIZ (German International Cooperation) sub-sahara water and sanitation programs (Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Mali, Kenya, Cameroon, etc..). Our main objective remains to improve people`s health through improved access to water and sanitation. This cannot work without health promotion leading to beahavior change. Many years I have been dealing with this issue, but I never studied it in a systematic way. Thus, I am here! I am also taking a module on Issues in Public Health. My employers webpage:  www.giz.de/en

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Hi, I trained as a GP in New Zealand and now live in London.

As a GP I was involved in a primary care organisation-wide smoking cessation programme using motivational interviewing; more recently I have become involved in workplace health promotion programmes. I'm interested in learning more about the theory and best practice in health promotion,  and look forward to learning, not only from our tutors, but also from module participants around the globe.

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Hello from Zagreb, Croatia. I am in the third year of MSc Public Health - Health Promotion stream with a plan to finish it next year. I work in an LGBT organisation on an HIV prevention programme for gay men, where we have several health promotion activities. I have enrolled into this course to gain wider knowledge in Public Health and to improve my skills in health promotion, research and evaluation.

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Greetings from Malaysia! I am a medical doctor currently working in a pharmaceutical company. I am involved in CSR projects including Promoting healthy eating among Diabetics and collaborating with hospitals in implementing Antimicrobial Stewardship program. Even though literacy rate is high among Malaysians, many still prefer to believe in non scientific backed health myths and I hope I could apply what I learn here to fill in the gap.

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i am a Zimbabwean medical doctor currently working in Swaziland. I have been working with TB/HIV SINCE 2009 and this has given me some insight into the disease. Currently i am in charge of the HIV Clinic at my Hospital and i hope this course will allow me to widen my view on interventions we can offer our patients. Currently i am working on delivering ARVs to rural communities in our catchment area and i hope this is a health promotion activity as it will allow more people to stay on treatment and hopefully reduce transmission. Being a foreigner i hope this course will help me tackle social and cultural barriers whenever we decide to implement new activities and how to sell new interventions to the communities

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I live in Washington, DC and am a public health professional of 14 years. I have helped implement a health promotion intervention for CVD in South Africa and am currently on a team to design an intervention for obesity in the Washington, DC area.

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Hi! I am German living in Cameroon. Before my current posting, I was working in Social Marketing carrying out media campaings to promote health via our products. I look very much forward to get some theory about health promotion as I realized that making a really good campaing can be very tricky.

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Dear All,

Hello from Tokyo, Japan. I have been working in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), and improving human environment  field as a consultant since 18 years especially in the Japanese ODA project with African countries, mainly in French speaking countries.  I have developed my skills concerns WASH by experience and self-learning through my job oppotunity.

The most exciting promotion activity with my african colleagues is WASH in School (HAMS) with primary or secondary school pupils and students, involving teachers, PTAs, health centers staffs, communities as well as neighbour regions, local authorities, or local merchandise.

Photo shows one of scene of "child-to-child" approach, presenting "Hygiene improvement message" by school girls' dancing. (Rwanda, Eastern province, Rwamagana District, Ecole Mwulire 2)

I am looking forward to e-share with all of you, Thanks

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Hi. I am a performer and director involved in activist & documentary theatre shows. I am Australian but live in Lyon, France and perform around the globe. Works I have been involved in aim to empower the individual, community and government policy in positive ways with regards to the environment, poverty reduction via energy security, drug and alcohol use and sexual behaviour. Here are some short trailers of work I am involved in, which often use humour, bribery, fact, music and dance for impact. Hope you enjoy them

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6wJwbOnssk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osatIDSYeF8

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I live in Berlin, Germany. I am working as a communications manager in an umbrella organisation for medical research networks/institutions where we deal with all kinds of issues around research resources and infrastructures (such as biobanks or registries) as well as cross-project collaboration in medical research. Amongst many other and really diverse things I am working on a project aimed at engaging people in biobank-based medical research. In an other project we are dealing with zoonotic infectious diseases - and the communication processes around the topic of infectious diseases and their impact on public health is what I'm most interested in. I am looking forward to learning, understanding, and applying the theories and concepts of health promotion!

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I'm from London but now I live in Berlin, Germany.

One of the first studies I was involved with still remains close to my heart - it was about the diet of pregnant teenagers in England. It explains the reasons they ate what they did, in terms of food preferences, dietary changes caused by their pregnancy as well as broader determinants of their food choices, such as poverty. Although it wasn't an intervention, we did follow up the study with a series of seminars with professionals working with pregnant teenagers, to encourage the development of both awareness of the issues and interventions as well. The report was called 'Good Enough to Eat' - a simple google search should identify it if you're interested in finding out more!