Interim dean selected for International Council award

IU’s Interim Dean of the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, Mohammad Torabi, has been selected to receive the President’s Special Plaque from the International Council for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance.

Torabi’s accolades include having served as editor of the Health Education Monograph Series, as a research editor for the American Journal of Health Behavior and working as an assistant research editor of the Journal of School Health.

He also has a list of leadership positions within professional associations, including the national executive board of the American School Health Association, a board member of the American Association for Health Education and member of the national executive committee of Eta Sigma Gamma, according to the press release.

He was also a health science honorary and an at-large member of the National Council of the American Lung Association.

“The award is in appreciation and recognition for Torabi’s outstanding meritorious service to the organization and the field,” according to a press release.

He received the award recently during the council’s 53rd Anniversary World Congress and Exposition meeting in Cairo.

Torabi said he is honored to have been selected to receive the award.

He said he is glad to be promoting public health to the people of IU and the world.

“I am delighted, lucky and fortunate to (help) advance the mission of this (program),” Torabi said.

— Michael Majchrowicz