IUHPE/NARO – the North American Regional Office of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) – is one of its seven regional offices around the world and comprises the US, Canada and the Caribbean. 

 

 

Dr. Hope Corbin

Regional Vice President

Dr. Hope Corbin, NARO Vice-President

Dr. Hope Corbin is a professor in the department of Health and Community Studies at Western Washington University and the department of Health Promotion at the University of Bergen, Norway. She has been an active member of IUHPE since 2004. Most of her favorite professional memories have taken place at IUHPE World conferences and her best professional work has been projects she undertook with IUHPE colleagues.

 

Hope’s scholarship focuses on intersectoral collaboration to reduce inequity in the social determinants of health. She recognizes the potential for partnership to leverage diverse ways of knowing and power for emancipatory health promotion. Hope works to uncover historical and contemporary processes that inhibit partnership to find better, more equitable ways of working, particularly in North-South collaboration. Lately, she is exploring how incorporating the arts in health promotion practice, research, and social mobilization provides a promising pathway to transformation, liberation, and healing for individuals, settings, communities and societies.  Hope has consulted for the World Health Organization and worked as part of the staff of Health Promotion International from 2013-2023. Hope serves as Vice President for the International Union for Health Promotion and Education's North American Region and as Faculty Mentor to the IUHPE's Student and Early Career Network.



Work Plan

  • Membership development strategy for the region.

  • Fundraising – potential sponsorship and funding in the region.

  • Partnerships – strengthen existing partnerships and develop new partnerships.

  • Communication – strengthen current communication tools.

  • Governance - align current trustees with the most relevant global portfolios; rethink most effective strategy for the composition for the NARO board.

  • Advocacy, Capacity Building, Scientific portfolio, knowledge translation and/or leadership.

  • Engage the NARO region to contribute to these professional goals as directed by their interests and capacity.

  • Contact NARO members who are in arrears (in line with global strategy).