WKU News & Events

March 20, 2002

Lubker To Present 'From Cradle To Diploma:
Building Bridges Between Public Education
And Public Health'

Bowling Green, Ky. - A recognized authority on public health and public education will dis

cuss how they relate to children during a presentation at Western Kentucky University.

Dr. Bobbie Boyd Lubker of Chapel Hill, N.C., will present "From Cradle to Diploma: Building Bridges Between Public Education and Public Health" at 7 p.m. April 2. The free presentation, part of the Boyd-Lubker Visiting Scholars Program, will be in Van Meter Auditorium.

Dr. Lubker, a native of Simpson County, Ky., is a recognized authority on issues of language learning, health and education as they concern children with chronic health conditions and schooling in hospitals. Her presentation will cover public health and public education, the two largest service delivery systems in the world, which serve the same populations of children and youth. Those systems, however, operate from different professional perspectives.

Some of the issues Dr. Lubker will address include how principles of public health inform public education about major health changes occurring in populations of children and youth; the needs in higher education curricula and training strategies for educators and health professionals; and how principles of public education inform public health about ways children and youth learn in order to promote prevention and to produce wiser health consumers.

Dr. Lubker is the daughter of Dr. George Robert Boyd, a Simpson County native and president of the WKU class of 1931. She has a degree in English education from Troy State University in Alabama; a master's degree in speech and hearing sciences from the University of Kentucky and a doctorate in public health epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has been president of the state speech and hearing associations in Virginia and North Carolina, founded the Roanoke Valley Speech and Hearing Clinic and has been an award-winning member of the UNC-CH faculty.

Dr. Lubker and her husband, Dr. John Lynn Lubker, established the Boyd-Lubker Visiting Scholars Program at Western in memory of Dr. George Robert Boyd and Mrs. Lucille King Boyd, the parents of Dr. Bobbie Boyd Lubker, and in honor of the Lubkers, with a $100,000 gift.

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