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HPELS Faculty & Staff Susan Roberts Dobie, Ph.D.  

 

 

Asst Professor

School of Health, Physical Education and Leisure Services


Address:
203 Wellness / Recreation Center

University of Northern Iowa

Cedar Falls, IA-50614-0618

 

Office: 219 WRC

Phone: (319) 273-5930

Email: susan.dobie@uni.edu

Website

Biography

     Dr. Susan Roberts-Dobie is an Assistant Professor in the Health Promotion and Education Division and the Director of the Speak UP! Salon Project.


     Speak UP! is part of the Iowa Initiative to Reduce Unintended Pregnancies, a five-year research and policy program focused on reducing unintended pregnancy in Iowa women ages 18-30. Speak UP! partners with salons to provide reproductive health information to women by building on the natural rapport stylists have with their clients.


     Susan teaches courses including Implementing Health Promotion Programs and Introduction to Public Health. She heads UNI?s chapter of Eta Sigma Gamma, the national honor society for Health Education students. She is the recipient of the 2006 UNI College of Education Excellence in Teaching Award, the award given each year to one faculty member exhibiting outstanding work with students in and out of the classroom and the 2008 Veridian Community Engagement Award in recognition of her efforts to engage her students in meaningful educational experiences outside the traditional classroom.


     Dr. Roberts-Dobie received her PhD in Public Health, focused on Research Methodology, from Oregon State University in 2004. Prior to her work at Oregon State, Dr. Roberts-Dobie worked as a Planning Consultant for the Black Hawk County Health Department and as the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Coordinator for the YWCA of Black Hawk County.


Education

Ph.D. Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon (2004)

 

M.A. University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa (1998)

 

B.A. University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa (1997)

 

B.A. in Spanish (1997)
Selected Publication

• Roberts-Dobie, S. & Donatelle, J. (in press, May 2007). Self-injury in the schools. The Journal of School Health.

 

• Roberts-Dobie, S. (Fall 2006). The Updated School Health Index: A Tool to Improve Student Health. IAHPERD Journal.

 

• Roberts-Dobie, S. (November 2006). Working with self-injurers: A model for schools. The 134th Annual American Public Health Association Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts.

 

• Roberts-Dobie, S. & Schalk, J. (March 2006). Cigs for Subs: A Great American Smokeout Event. The Iowa Public Health Association Annual Meeting. Ames, Iowa.

 

• Roberts-Dobie, S. & Cryer, D. (March 2006). Strengthening future professionals through undergraduate research. The Iowa Public Health Association Annual Meeting. Ames, Iowa .

 

• Roberts-Dobie, S. (December 2005). The status of school health policies: Presence and predictors. Annual Conference of the Iowa Educational Research and Evaluation Association. Cedar Falls, Iowa.

 

• Donatelle, R.J., Hudson , D., Lesser, V., Goodall, A. & Dobie, S. (May 2005). Does money talk? Motivating smoking cessation in pregnancy: The MISS Project. National Conference on Tobacco and Health. Chicago, Illinois.

 

• Donatelle, R.J., Hudson , D., Lesser, V., Dobie, S., & Goodall, A. (April 2005). Factors that predict the effectiveness of contingency management on smoking cessation: The MISS Project. The Society of Behavioral Medicine's 26th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions. Boston, MA.

 

• Donatelle, R.J., Hudson , D., Dobie, S., Goodall, A., Hunsberger, M., & Oswald, K. (2004). Incentives in smoking cessation: Status of the field and implications for research and practice with pregnant smokers. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 6(Supp 2), S163-S179.

 

• Dobie, S. (2004). utting through the Pain' in: Access to Health, 8th ed, by Donatelle, R. J. Benjamin Cummings, San Francisco.

 

• Roberts-Dobie, S. (November 2004). Killing two birds with one stone: Teach health lessons through physical activity. Iowa Alliance of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance State Convention. Cedar Falls, Iowa.

 

• Donatelle, R.J., Hudson , D. & Dobie, S. (November 2003). Barriers to the delivery of a 5 A's Best Practice Intervention for low - income pregnant smokers: Provider perspectives and implications for practice. American Public Health Association Conference. San Francisco, California.

 

Research Interests

• Child and Adolescent Health

 

• Health Disparities

 

• Health Behavior Change

 

• Self-injurious Behavior

 

• Tobacco Use and Cessation