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Portrait of Walter Snip Young

Walter Snip Young

Public Health
Golden, Colorado

Dr. Young has dedicated his career to conducting community and organizational research for program planning, and evaluation of state and local public health programs. His work focuses on the elimination of personal and environmental health risks for improved community health outcomes. He is well known and has published much of his work on the prevention of tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke through policy-based community strategies.

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Specialty Public Health
Industry Health Services
Organization Advanced Health Directions
Location Golden, Colorado

About Walter Snip Young

I am a semi-retired public health advocate who has held various public health management positions throughout my career. I've held management positions with the following organizations: Director, Division of Prevention Programs, Colorado Department of Public Heath and Environment; Scientist, AMC Cancer Research Center; Scientist, Cooper Institute's Center for Health Communication; Assistant Clinical Professor, University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine; and Senior Scientist, Klein Buendel, of Golden, Colorado.

Career Accomplishments

  • Dr. Young collaborates with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to address pressing public health issues.

Education & Training

2004

Health and Behavioral Sciences

Education Level: Doctorate

Institution: University of Colorado at Denver

Denver, Colorado, United States of America

1977

Community Health Education

Education Level: Master's

Institution: University of Northern Colorado

Greeley, United States of America

1969

Industrial Management

Education Level: Bachelor's

Institution: University of Akron

Akron, Ohio, United States of America

Professional Affiliations

  • Colorado Public Health Association
    Member
  • Applewood Property Owners Association
    Member
  • Group to Alleviate Smoking Pollution (GASP)
    Board of Directors

Honors & Awards

  • Excellence in Community Health PromotionAward: Secretary of Health and Humana Services — 1990
    This Award was given to me after I created the Rocky Mountain Tobacco Free Challenge in partnership with seven State Health Department Directors of Chronic Disease.
  • Outstanding Health Educator: American Lung Association of Colorado — 1994
    This award was given to me for my leadership of a group of public health advocates to place a ballot initiative before Colorado voters to increase the excise tax on tobacco products.
  • Honor Award, Eta Sigma Gamma - Colorado Chapter — 1997
    This chapter of the National Professional Health Science Honorary bestowed this prestigious award for my longtime advocacy for various public health policies in Colorado and work at the natio

Community Service

  • Board Member, Applewood Property Owners Association — 2024
    Along with other board members, we work to protect and develop the Applewood area of unincorporated Jefferson County, Colorado.
  • Board Member, GASP of Colorado — 2024
    Provides policy, program guidance and support to program staff who are focused on eliminating exposure to secondhand smoke in Colorado's low income public and private multiunit housing
  • Chair, American Stop Smoking Intervention Study, National Coordinating Committee (NCI) — 1997
    I chaired this National Cancer Institute committee of seventeen state public health & seventeen American Cancer Society representatives who implemented the first community-based policy interv

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Golden, Colorado

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PROFILE SUMMARY

Professional Summary

Dr. Young has dedicated his career to conducting community and organizational research for program planning, and evaluation of state and local public health programs. His work focuses on the elimination of personal and environmental health risks for improved community health outcomes. He is well known and has published much of his work on the prevention of tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke through policy-based community strategies.