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Ms. Kate Coburn is currently the Director of the Community
Health Section of the Center for Continuing Education, Dartmouth-Hitchcock
Medical Center, a program helping regional health professionals to improve
patient care and individuals to make informed health decisions. In this
position she directs health education efforts for the general community,
occupational groups, and for Dartmouth Medical students. As a community health
educator and instructor in Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical
School she works with state and local initiatives to improve individual health
through collaboration and effective behavior change programming. Kate has also
authored three health and wellness books published by the American Diabetes
Association and Bantam books.
Kate's tobacco prevention and treatment work has sought to address the
training needs of medical students and to provide science-based prevention and
tobacco addiction treatment to rural communities. Specific activities
include:
- teaching at Dartmouth Medical School - Partners in Health Education and the
Live-Free/ Smoke-free volunteer tobacco treatment program;
- initiating, Nobacco, at Dartmouth College aimed at encouraging students and
administrators to make changes which encourage tobacco-free living on
campus;
- leading a Dartmouth-Karelia, Russia community improvement exchange to
support the prevention of tobacco-use and its cessation: collaborating with
area schools and providers
- facilitate the Great American Smokeout and Smokescream in area
medical centers, schools, worksites, and medical center;
- initiating and implementing a 1992 CDC grant-supported coalition
"Tobacco-free Lebanon Coalition" whose mission is
to,"create a community expectation that youth will resist tobacco
products and choose alternatives which promote well-being and healthy
lifestyles";
- planning and evaluating the impact of New Hampshire Celebrates
Wellness which fosters the creation of local wellness teams statewide to
improve health of populations served;
- developing and updating means of personal health resource
identification and referral for the public, professional, and employee
groups.
Ms. Coburn is an active member of the US Public Health Association and
Society of Public Health Educators and serves on numerous planning and advisory
committees. Recent grant awards include the $196,000 State of NH Tobacco
Prevention Program grant in 2001. This grant supports the Upper Valley
Prevention Partnership in reducing local tobacco-use and the $10,000 American
Cancer Society HELP grant to support youth involvement in tobacco policy
change. Kate Coburn has mentored numerous Dartmouth College and Dartmouth
Medical School students to address tobacco issues and advocate for healthy
living. Kate lives in Lebanon, NH with her Husband Kevin and sons Don and
Miles.
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