COE Team Wins Pittu Laungani Best Paper Award

Lehigh doctoral students and faculty who evaluated a training program for community health workers in rural southeast Haiti have won the 2017 Pittu Laungani Award for best paper published in the International Journal of Health Promotion and Education.

The paper, which offers recommendations for building effective volunteer-led training programs, was written by then-doctoral students Brandon A. Knettel and Shay E. Slifko; Arpana G. Inman, chair, Department of Education & Human Services, College of Education; and Iveta Silova, former associate professor of comparative and international education. The Institute of Health Promotion and Education announced the award winners in its March 2018 newsletter.