An IUP Faculty member has been selected to serve as the director of IUP’s Public Health studies program.
According to a news release, Dr. Kristi Sorti of the university’s department of Kinesiology, Health, and Sport Science and a Dean’s Associate for Administration in the College of Health and Human Services, was selected as the new director by Provost Timothy Moerland. The public health program is an educational track that goes across three disciplines: Health and Human Services, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences and Mathematics.
Sorti is the second director of the Public Health Program, after Dr. Diane Shinberg. Storti is a physical activity epidemiologist with expertise is public health research, more specifically physical activity assessment, methodology and analysis. Her research interests include physical activity assessment and promotion of physical activity and healthy lifestyle choices to prevent and/or manage health-related outcomes such as obesity, diabetes, and sub-clinical cardiovascular disease.
She joined the IUP faculty in 2014.
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