Gail Hanula: 2008 Walter Barnard Hill Award Recipient

Kudos to Gail Hanula who received the 2008 Walter Barnard Hill Award for Distinguished Achievement in University Public Service and Outreach. Gail is a doctoral student in Health Promotion and a nutrition educator a UGA, Family and Consumer Sciences. Gail helps design and implement programs that promote healthy lifestyles, provide foods and nutrition education to youth, and offer health education for families. She coordinates and provides statewide leadership for the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP), a USDA extension program that aims to help low-income families improve health through better nutrition. She also has provided national leadership to EFNEP, chairing the committee overseeing development of the programs NEERS5 reporting system and leading the NEERS5 training committee. http://outreach.uga.edu/awards/2008/gail-hanula/ Congratulations!