Patricia Rhynders

Dr. Patricia Rhynders is a master certified health education specialist (MCHES) with more than 30 years’ experience developing and directing health promotion programs in community, nonprofit, hospital, and academic settings. She has extensive experience creating, teaching, and assessing e-learning curricula, has been full-time faculty at Trident University since 2004, and is currently the University Dean of the College of Health and Human Services.

Dr. Rhynders has maintained an active role in her field via community-based participatory research funded by the Corbett Charitable Trust Grant Fund – UNCW, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Hemophilia Foundation, California Endowment, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She serves as a mentor and advisor on national committees of the American Public Health Association, Society for Public Health Education, and the National Public Health Council, as well as editorial boards of several scholarly journals.