Andrew Springer
Associate Professor
Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences
512/391-2523
University of Texas Administration Building
1616 Guadalupe, Suite 6.300, Austin, TX 78701
About
Andrew Springer, DrPH is a tenured Associate Professor of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston) School of Public Health-Austin who brings over 20 years of experience in the design, implementation and evaluation of child, adolescent and community health promotion programs in the U.S. and Latin America. His research includes the first CDC-guided youth risk behavior survey conducted in El Salvador, ¡Activate Ya!- an NIH-funded study of a school-based tobacco prevention and physical activity promotion program with Uruguayan adolescents, the Youth-led Community Health Learning Initiative – a high school student-led community health assessment, and the Vision Zero Action Planning with Young People initiative, among other recent community assessments that include the Travis County Physical Activity Landscape Assessment and the Acres Homes Out-of-School-Time Physical Activity Opportunity Study. As a registered health promotion practitioner with the International Union for Health Education and Promotion and community service on coalitions that include the Austin/Travis County Community Health Improvement Plan and the Austin/Travis County Active Living Collaborative, Dr. Springer has a specific interest in community health promotion practice, which includes participatory planning and evaluation methods as well as the design of health promotion interventions in relation to environmental context. In addition to serving as an adjunct professor with the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana - Master of Health Psychology Program in Cali, Colombia, where he has been teaching health promotion planning since 2015, he is the recipient of the University of Texas Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award (2022), an inductee of the University of Texas System Kenneth I. Shine, M.D. Academy of Health Science Education (2024), and Recipient of the Minnie Stevens Piper Professor Award (2025).
Center Affiliation
Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living