Sara Oswalt

sara.oswalt@utsa.edu

 

Originally from Ohio , Dr. Oswalt attended Pennsylvania State University and Indiana University for her undergraduate and graduate degrees. After earning her Masters in Public Health, she worked as a college health educator at Georgia Southern University and then relocated to Athens , GA for the position of Sexual Health Coordinator at the University of Georgia . She earned her PhD in Health Promotion and Behavior at the University of Georgia. She joined the faculty of UTSA in 2004 in the Department of Health and Kinesiology. She teaches HTH 2513 Personal Health Management, HTH 3023 Survey of Human Sexuality, HTH 4513 Consumer Health, HTH 4523 Understanding Human Sexuality, and various graduate health courses. Her research interests are directed at college students: assessing their health status and the evaluation of college and university efforts to address those health issues. She has a special interest in sexual health issues, especially sexual decision-making, sexual regret, and campus climate issues for GLBT students. . She is also the co-Project Director for Somos Fuertes: Strong Women Making Healthy Choices , a federally funded HIV education prevention program for UTSA female college students.