Rebecca Boulos to serve as speaker at two upcoming engagements

Rebecca Boulos, Ph.D., MPH, assistant clinical professor in the School of Community and Population Health, will deliver the keynote address at an upcoming Coastal Healthy Communities Coalition (CHCC) annual meeting and will serve as a panelist for the Bangor Area Food Summit.

Boulos’ keynote address for CHCC will take place on May 22, 2014, 12:00pm - 3:00pm, in UNE’s Campus Center multi-purpose room on the Biddeford Campus.

The title of her presentation is "Putting the social in social change: Activating the power of interpersonal relationships to promote public health."

CHCC is a community-based health promotion coalition working to prevent tobacco use and substance abuse. CHCC also works to promote physical activity and nutrition in the community and in schools. The coalition is a program of the University of New England’s College of Osteopathic Medicine, and is a Healthy Maine Partnership, funded by Maine’s share of the tobacco settlement through the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Fund for Healthy Maine. The annual meeting will highlight the value of building meaningful partnerships in efforts toward improving public health in York County and throughout Maine.

Boulos’ other upcoming engagement--serving as a panelist for the Bangor Area Food Summit-- will be held on May 29th, 9:00am - 10:30am at the Dyke Center for Family Business on the campus of Husson University.

This discussion will be focused on the Bangor area food system and related social, economic and political issues and will include the following other panelists: Melissa Huston, Good Shepherd Food Bank of Northern Maine; Kristen Michelle Brown, Ph.D. student in Plant Sciences at the University of Maine, Orono; Heather Retberg, Quill's End Farm, Penobscot Maine; & Rep. Craig Hickman, farmer, owner and operator of Bed and Breakfast, member of the 126th Maine State Legislature representing Readfield and Winthrop and member of the Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee.

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