Dr. Alan J. Sofalvi
Title
Dr. Alan J. Sofalvi
Subject
Sofalvi, Alan J.
Description
Alan J Sofalvi earned a Bachelor of Education at The University of Toledo (1981), a Master of Science in Education in 1985 at Southern Illinois University (Carbondale), and a Ph.D. in Health Education from Pennsylvania State University in 1990.
Upon completing his doctorate, Dr. Sofalvi taught as Assistant Professor of Health Education at Georgia College (Milledgeville, GA) from 1990-1994. His academic career continued as Visiting Assistant Professor of Health Education (1994-1997) in the Department of Applied Health Science at Indiana University (Bloomington, IN). From 1997 until his retirement in 2024, Dr. Sofalvi taught myriad content and methods courses, and supervised Community Health Education Interns (1997-2000; Spr 2009) at State University of New York at Cortland (1997- 2025).
Dr. Sofalvi authored/co-authored 16 peer-reviewed national journal publications and made 24 national conference professional presentations. He was very active and held national office 10 times in four national associations as well as the Health Education professional honorary Eta Sigma Gamma, serving on its Board of Directors as National Historian (2016-2023). He also was Historian of the Foundation for the Advancement of Health Education (2019-2023; and chaired the History and Philosophy Committee (2002-2004) of the American Association for Health Education.
Dr. Sofalvi was named a Fellow (2005) by, and received the national Distinguished Service Award (2006) of the American School Health Association. In 2011, he was named a fellow of the American Association for Health Education.
Upon completing his doctorate, Dr. Sofalvi taught as Assistant Professor of Health Education at Georgia College (Milledgeville, GA) from 1990-1994. His academic career continued as Visiting Assistant Professor of Health Education (1994-1997) in the Department of Applied Health Science at Indiana University (Bloomington, IN). From 1997 until his retirement in 2024, Dr. Sofalvi taught myriad content and methods courses, and supervised Community Health Education Interns (1997-2000; Spr 2009) at State University of New York at Cortland (1997- 2025).
Dr. Sofalvi authored/co-authored 16 peer-reviewed national journal publications and made 24 national conference professional presentations. He was very active and held national office 10 times in four national associations as well as the Health Education professional honorary Eta Sigma Gamma, serving on its Board of Directors as National Historian (2016-2023). He also was Historian of the Foundation for the Advancement of Health Education (2019-2023; and chaired the History and Philosophy Committee (2002-2004) of the American Association for Health Education.
Dr. Sofalvi was named a Fellow (2005) by, and received the national Distinguished Service Award (2006) of the American School Health Association. In 2011, he was named a fellow of the American Association for Health Education.
Publisher
Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
Date
2016-10-18
Contributor
Drolet, Judy Catherine, 1951-
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Citation
“Dr. Alan J. Sofalvi,” SCRC Virtual Museum at Southern Illinois University's Morris Library, accessed February 8, 2026, https://scrcexhibits.omeka.net/items/show/1024.
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