Episode #10 Dr. Robert Rinck cancer survivor, advocate, public health leader

Robert M Rinck, PhD, MPH is the Fieldwork Coordinator for the MPH Program at San Jose State University (SJSU) and Chapter President of the Northern California Society of Public Health Education Chapter (NC-SOPHE). He has worked with a variety of communities such as a Native Americans Diabetes Project in Oakland, California, on a Refugee Soccer Program in Sydney, Australia as well as working with immigrant families at McKinley Elementary School on health promotion and education activities and events.  Dr. Rinck co-wrote and received a SOPHE mini-grant on “Clearing the Air” which successfully worked towards making San Jose State University becoming a tobacco-free campus. Dr. Rinck is the advisor to the COUGH@SJSU club, which spearheaded the tobacco-free initiative, and won the Outstanding Service Program Club for SJSU campus in 2018. As part of the Salud Familiar project en McKinley, they won the Outstanding Program Award at the SOPHE National Conference in 2015. Dr. Rinck also received the Outstanding Community Engagement Service Award in 2017 from SJSU. Dr. Rinck made his film debut in the documentary, “Making it Right” in 2007 and presented the award winning documentary, “Football United: Passport to Hope” at the International Sports Film Festival in Los Angeles in 2011.

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