Dr. Steven Godin received his BA Degree in Social-Personality Psychology from the California State University, Fullerton, CA in 1980.  He received his MS Degree in Community Psychology in 1983 and his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 1989 from the APA Approved Program at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL.  Dr. Godin completed a post-doctorate MPH Degree (concentration in Health Education/Behavioral Science) from the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School & the Edward Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy at Rutgers University, School of Public Health in 1994.  During 2006-2007, he was on sabbatical and completed a Post-Graduate Certificate in Public Health Informatics at the School of Public Health at University of Illinois, Chicago Circle.

Dr. Godin joined the Division of Public Health within the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine in July, 2016 as a Visiting Professor, and transitioned to a full-time, grant funded Adjunct Professor in 2020 as an initial step in phased retirement, and became fully retired as of July, 2023.  In retirement, Dr. Godin has networked a number of non-profits in Utah to improve mental health literacy through infusion of the arts (i.e., fine arts; music; theatre).  As a unpaid adjunct, Dr. Godin serves as a practicum supervisor for fieldwork students funded to provide mental health literacy content development and evaluation of intervention outcomes.

Prior to working at the U of U, Dr. Godin's academic career started at RWJ/Rutgers Medical School where he was the Coordinator of Program Evaluation (1985-1991) for the behavioral health care services, while teaching psychology and family studies courses at Rutgers University.  In 1991, he started a tenured track Associate Professor position at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania.  While there, he was the undergraduate BSPH coordinator (1994-2007) and graduate MPH program director (2007-2016). Both degree programs were CEPH accredited under his direction.   In 2009, he also created and coordinated the Public Health Certificate Program until 2016. Prior to leaving ESU, Dr. Godin launched a new organization called the “Institute for Public Health Research and Innovation” in 2014. This Institute sought to build inter-organizational collaboration to address regional health inequities in the era of healthcare reform.  At the time of his departure, the Institute had grant funding supporting six ESU faculty, three staff, and five graduate assistants. While at the University of Utah, Dr. Godin helped develop the Community Health track of the MPH Program, and developed coursework in health communications, health behavior, and social behavioral sciences in public health.

Dr. Godin was the principal investigator on a number of funded interventions, epidemiologic research and program evaluation projects.  Additionally, he has had various consulter roles in program development and evaluation research with community-based organizations.  Over 37 years (1986-2023), Dr. Godin was the recipient of 64 grants/contracts and 19 subcontracts resulting in over $23.6 million in funding to conduct population-based public health programs, prevention-oriented research, epidemiologic gap analyses, and program evaluation studies.   The sources of his funding came from a number of organizations including the: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); Indian Health Service (IHS); US Department of Justice; SAMHSA; Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA); NJ, PA , and UT Departments of Health; NJ Department of Human Services; and Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Foundation to name a few.  Since retiring in July, 2023, his primary focus has been to improve mental health literacy for youth, parents and families.  He has been working on building an organizational network of non-profits which will use the fine and performing arts (i.e., music and theatre) as platforms to improve mental health and substance use disorder literacy in Utah.  He supervises students who are involved in the educational content development, and planning of festivals. He also serves as a federal grant reviewer for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

Over 40 years, Dr. Godin was involved in a variety of prevention-oriented applied research activities in the areas of: 1) development and evaluation of chronic disease prevention programs, social marketing efforts in disease prevention, and health literacy interventions; 2) quality assurance of Internet-based consumer health education and disease management; 3) assessing organizational needs and implementation of electronic medical/health records (EMRs/EHRs);  4) applied epidemiological research and geo-mapping of health inequities; 5) policy issues in prevention and the health services; and 6) community psychology.  Dr. Godin is the author/co-author of over 70 professional publications (i.e., technical/research reports, journal articles) and has 200+ professional presentations at international, national, regional and state conferences.  His edited book entitled “Technology Applications in Prevention” was published by Haworth Press in Spring, 2005.  His book was used by faculty teaching public health informatics coursework at the Schools of Public Health at Harvard, Yale, and University of Illinois, Chicago Circle.

Dr. Godin won national elections to serve as Section Councilors for the Epidemiology Section (2005-2008) and the Health Informatics-Information Technology (HIIT) Section (2011-2014) of the American Public Health Association.   In 2012, he was elected to serve as Member-at-Large for the Association of Accredited Public Health Programs (AAPHP represents the interests of 150+ CEPH accredited graduate and undergraduate programs in public health globally), before being elected to serve as President-Elect for AAPHP in 2014, President in 2015-2016, Past President in 2017, and Treasurer in 2018-2019.   He was a Certified CEPH Accreditation Site Reviewer for the Council on Education for Public Health from 2009-2016. From 2008 to 2023, he served as a founding member of the Editorial Board of the Online Journal of Public Health Informatics for HIIT.

Dr. Godin resides with his wife Deirdre (retired HS teacher) in Sandy, UT.  His daughter Lindsay is a Lecturer of photography in the Department of Art at the University of Tennessee, Chatanooga. His son Ryan graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in engineering and is presently an officer in the US Navy and is stationed in Japan.  Steve enjoys golf, writes and records songs that address social issues, and has begun organizing community art and music festivals, and benefit concerts to raise funds to improve mental health literacy, mental health services and support programs that prevent housing and food insecurities.

After 25 years at East Stroudsburg University, I was awarded "Professor Emeritus" status in 2016.