A portrait photograph of Dorothy Bird Nyswander. Dorothy B. Nyswander was an American health educator. She graduated with master's and bachelor's degrees from the University of Nevada and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. She is considered the Mother of Health Education. In 1943, Nyswander aided in founding the Berkeley School of Public Health. In 1946 she became a full-time professor at UC Berkeley and remained there for nearly 12 years. Following her retirement in 1957, and at age 62, Dorothy Nyswander then began a 16-year career with the World Health Organization traveling to Jamaica, Turkey, Brazil, the South Seas, and India to develop health education programs.
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