Manoj Sharma
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Dr. Manoj Sharma - Physician
Dr Manoj Sharma is a physician health educator. He was trained as a physician at University of Delhi [University College of Medical Sciences][1], New Delhi, India. He has been licensed and registered with the Medical Council of India to practice medicine and surgery since 1986. In 1992 he completed postgraduate Diploma in Training and Development from the Indian Society for Training and Development,[2] New Delhi, India. The same year he was certified by the National Institute of Health and Family Welfare [3], New Delhi, India in Health and Family Welfare Management. He immigrated to the United States in 1992 and completed his Master of Science in Community Health from Minnesota State University, Mankato. He then completed his doctorate (Ph.D.) in Preventive Medicine from the School of Public Health at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio in 1997. Since 1999 he is also a Health Education Specialist certified by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing (NCHEC).[4]
Presently, he is a faculty member in the Department of Health Promotion and Health Education [5] at the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses that include Introduction to Health Promotion, Principles and Foundations of Health Promotion and Education, Drugs and Society, Stress Reduction, Measurement in Health Education, Health Care Delivery, and Reading and Analyzing Health Education Research. His research interests include development & evaluation of behavioral & organizational theory-based health education and health promotion interventions, community-based participatory research, complementary and alternative systems of health, disability-rehabilitation, and stress-coping. He is also the Editor of Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education.
Over the past 20 years he has held appointments and/or worked on projects in community health at the:
(1)Local level: City of Columbus Health Department [6], Omaha Healthy Start [7], Lead Safe Omaha Coalition [8], Discover Health, Cincinnati, Lakeside Wellness Center, Omaha[9]
(2) State level: Nebraska Health & Human Services System [10], Ohio Department of Health [11], Ohio Commission for Minority Health [12]
(3) National level: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, American School Health Association [13],United States Environmental Protection Agency
(4) International level: Voluntary Health Association of India,[14], India, National Institute of Health & Family Welfare (NIHFW),[15], India, Deepalaya Plan Program of Foster Parents Plan International, India, Associazione Italiana Amici di Raoul Follereau (AIFO)[16], Italy, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, [17], Mongolia, European Union, United Kingdom, Vietnam Rehabilitation Association, Vietnam, Ministry of Health, [18], United Arab Emirates, Beijing Normal University, [19]),China.
He is an editorial associate for the journal, The Health Educator [20] and serves as a scientific reviewer for: International Electronic Journal of Health Education, [21] American Journal of Health Behavior, [22] Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation, [23], Disability and Rehabilitation, [24] International Journal of Sports Medicine, [25] Social Science and Medicine, [26] Obesity Reviews, [27] Journal of School Health, [28] Complementary Therapies in Medicine, [29] Health Care for Women International, [30] Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research Education and Action, [31] European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, [32] Agriculture and Human Values, [33] and International Journal of Obesity [34]. As of 2006 he has secured funding exceeding $4 million. Some of the funding agencies for his projects include The Ohio Commission for Minority Health [35], American Alcohol & Drug Informational Foundation, Nebraska Health & Human Services System,[36] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, UAS Laboratories,[37] EZE Germany, [38] American Dietetic Association, United States Department of Health & Human Services [39], United States Bureau of Educational & Cultural Affairs [40], American Cancer Society, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [41], Swiss Development Corporation (SDC) [42], National Institutes of Health and UNICEF.
He has several publications [43] to his credit. He has coauthored a textbook with John Romas entitled, Practical Stress Management published by Benjamin Cummings [44]. This book is in its fourth edition and has sold over 10,000 copies. He has also coauthored a book Health Promotion Through Community Action published by Voluntary Health Association of India [45] and a teachers manual, Building Health Lifestyles, published by City of Columbus Health Department [46]. One of his books, Theoretical Foundations of Health Promotion and Education is currently being published by Jones and Bartlett. [47] He has authored over fifty articles in peer reviewed and scientific journals. He has over seventy-five presentations at regional, national, and international conferences. Several of his research studies have been reported in the media. Such as his work with childhood obesity [48] and leisure time physical activity in women [49]. His research on his dissertation was awarded the best dissertation award by American School Health Association [50], Society for Public Health Education [51] and Association for Advancement of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (AAHPERD) [52] in 1997. He is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, Who’s Who in American Education, Who’s Who in Medicine and Health Care, and Who’s Who in World. In 2006 he was awarded the Public Health Education and Health Promotion (PHEHP) Materials Contest Winner award by the American Public Health Association. In 1998 he was awarded the William Oxley Thompson Early Career Achievement Award by The Ohio State University Alumni Association. In 1997 he was awarded the PRIDE Award for designing the best Ohio Health Promotion Program by Ohio Public Health Association [53]. He became a fellow of the 'American Institute of Stress' [54] in 1994.
