NASPA Well-being and Health Promotion Leadership Conference 2024 | NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education | 18 January 2024 | TBA, San Francisco, CA

This conference is strategically designed to engage you in thoughtful dialogue, engaging learning opportunities, and meaningful collegial relationships that will strengthen your capacity for leadership in creating healthier campus settings.

Each session is specifically selected to explore how to engage the process of health promotion to support the outcome of well-being. We hope the conference experience will prove to:

• Stimulate your curious mind, leading to more questions and a deeper purpose
• Honor inclusive excellence and collaboration, while advancing scholarly health promotion practice
• Engage theoretical and evidence-informed approaches, through an intentional lens of social justice and equity, and a commitment to earth justice as essential to communal well-being
• Build capacity to influence health and well-being through the connectedness between individuals, communities and environments
• Strengthen your commitment to providing effective leadership to move beyond a bio-behavioral to a settings approach to well-being

The purpose of this conference is to build capacity for strategic and effective leadership in the process of health promotion. Health issues, educational program designs, policy development and specifics of built environments are discussed solely to illustrate effective pathways to creating well-being in the campus setting and among those who live, learn and work on campus. The conference focus is on infrastructure and systems that contribute to the process of health promotion and a culture of well-being. Expect to be challenged, strengthened, and to grow in your ability to provide leadership for a healthier campus.

The work of health promotion in higher education is work that cannot be done as direct service delivery, in a silo or a vacuum. While issue/content expertise and best practice prevention strategies are essential, health promotion infrastructure and practice is critical as we move toward our shared outcome of wellbeing.

2023 Past Speakers

Chris Dawe
AVP - Health & Well-Being, Northwest Missouri State University

Julie Edwards
Director of the Skorton Center for Health Initiatives, Cornell University

Ashleigh Hala
Mentorship Coordinator, SRVPER KC / Director - Office of Wellbeing, Wake Forest University

Ashley Hinton
Director of Student Wellness, University of Kentucky

Sislena Grocer Ledbetter
Associate Vice President - Counseling, Health, and Wellbeing, Western Washington University

Michelle Kelly-Reeves
Director, Health and Wellbeing Initiative, Texas Woman’s University

Gabriela Ortiz
Dean of Health and Wellbeing, Tecmilenio University

Kari Pratt
Assistant Director of Student Wellness, Adjunct Faculty – School of Community Health Sciences, Counseling, & Counseling Psychology, Oklahoma State University

Julia Proctor
Assistant Dean of Students, DePauw University

Brittany Todd
Director of Risk Intervention and Safety Education, Texas Tech University