UCSD Student Health Advocates

This is an organization set up at UCSD to use undergraduate students to help educate and increase awareness of other under grads as to healthy life styles and practices. Normally the program trains and directs about 100 under grads per year. Some of these students have been involved in the implementation of the SEPA program by coming to the consortium high schools on the intervention days and assisting with special related activities they have created. Normally these older students have a segment of time to apply the topic of the day through some activity in a non-lecture format. They have also assisted with field trips. Since the students are closer in age and language, and the activities are fun, this is a very successful intervention. The program is run by an adult at UCSD who, in-turn, works with a designated student in charge of the SEPA program interventions. These two determine the students involved and coordinate curriculum ideas to be implemented. This aspect of the SEPA program has had an unintended consequence of impacting career decisions of the Student Health Advocates involved.

Debbie Pino-Sabalett, UCSD SHA Coordinator

Laura Beadles, 1998-99 Student Coordinator

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