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Guy S. Parcel, Ph.D.
Dean, School of Public Health at Houston
E-mail: Guy.S.Parcel@uth.tmc.edu
Dr. Guy S. Parcel, the John P. McGovern Professor in Health Promotion, was appointed Dean of The University of Texas School of Public Health at Houston in 2004. Parcel became only the third dean in the 35-year history of what is the oldest school of public health in Texas.
Parcel, who was appointed executive dean in February 2003, previously had served as “acting dean” of the school on several occasions. He joined the UT School of Public Health in 1986 as the associate director of the Center for Health Promotion Research and Development.
His research concentrates on developing and evaluating effective school-based health promotion programs for children, including diet, physical activity, smoking prevention, and asthma self-management. He also has investigated a school-based intervention to reduce behaviors that result in STD/HIV infection.
Parcel received his doctoral degree in health education and child development from Pennsylvania State University, after earning his bachelor’s and Master of Science degrees from Indiana University in Bloomington .
The author or co-author of more than 200 scientific papers and book chapters, Parcel received the 1990 William A. Howe Award from the American School Health Association for outstanding contributions and distinguished service in school health. In 1999, he received the Texas Society for Public Health Education’s Dorothy Huskey Award.
He is a co-author of the textbook, Intervention Mapping: Designing Theory- and Evidence-Based Health Promotion Programs (Mayfield Publishing, c2000).
From 1992-2002, Parcel was the second-highest recipient of research funding at the UT Health Science Center, with more than $21 million in total awards during those 10 years.
As principal investigator of a 1991-94 nationwide, multi-center study funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Parcel led development of the CATCH program, which is a coordinated school health program that builds an alliance of parents, teachers, child nutrition personnel, school staff and community partners to teach children and their families how to be healthy for a lifetime. More than 1,250 elementary schools in Texas have adopted CATCH, teaching over 600,000 Texas children healthy behavioral changes to avoid cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity.
Date Reviewed: 11/07/2006
