Dawn Bleyenburg

Dawn Bleyenburg, MS, MCHES® is the interim Asst. Dean of the Office of Engagement and Practice, Director of the Center for Public Health Continuing Education, and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy, Management and Behavior at the University at Albany College of Integrated Health Sciences.   She is a Master Certified Health Education Specialist with over 20 years of experience in curriculum development, training, evaluation, program planning, needs assessment, and blended learning.

Dawn spent many years working in tobacco control, first as a Tobacco Cessation & Education Specialist for Glens Falls Hospital, and a Tobacco Education Specialist for the Student Support Services Center at Capital Region BOCES in Albany, NY. Before moving to New York, Dawn was an Americorps Promise Fellow and Summer Program Director at the Ruth Lilly Health Education Center in Indianapolis, IN.

She holds a master's degree in school and college health education and a bachelor's degree in human development and family studies from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. She is a 2010 Northeast Public Health Leadership Institute graduate. She served as Treasurer on the Executive Board for the NYS Public Health Association from July 2014 to June 2021. From 2017-2021, Dawn served a 5-year term as National Commission for Health Education Credentialing Board Director on the Division Board for Professional Preparation and Practice. She was recently reelected to the Queensbury Union Free School District’s Board of Education and serving her second 5-year term.