An Introduction to Community & Public Health

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Jim McKenzie is Professor Emeritus at Ball State University. He earned his PhD from The Ohio State University, a MPH from the University of Michigan, and a MEd and BS from Bowling Green State University (BGSU). He has also served on the faculties at BGSU, Mankato State University, and Penn State–Hershey. He is a master certified health education specialist (MCHES) and served on NCHEC's Division Board for Certification of Health Education Specialists for 11 years. He is co-author of five textbooks: Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Health Promotion Programs: A Primer (7th ed., 2017, Benjamin Cummings), An Introduction to Community and Public Health (9th ed., 2018, Jones & Bartlett Learning), An Introduction to Community Health: Brief Edition (2014, Jones & Bartlett Learning), Principles and Foundations of Health Promotion and Education (7th ed., in press, Benjamin Cummings), and Research Methods in Health Promotion and Education (2nd ed., 2011, Jones & Bartlett Publishers). He is a member of Society for Public Health Education, American School Health Association, and Eta Sigma Gamma.^Robert R. Pinger is Professor Emeritusin the Department of Physiology and Health Science at Ball State University, and Director Emeritus of the Department’s Public Health Entomology Laboratory. He earned his MS and PhD from Iowa State University and completed postdoctoral training in medical entomology at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. He has taught at the Federal University of Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil and Yeungnam University, Daegu, Republic of Korea. He is co-author of two textbooks: Drugs: Issues for Today (3rd ed., McGraw-Hill) and Introduction to Community and Public Health (8th ed., Jones & Bartlett Learning), and more than 25 peer reviewed, scientific research articles. As a Ball State Faculty member, he taught courses in personal health, community health, epidemiology, Biostatistics, environmental health, toxicology, and public health entomology.