Editor: Manoj Sharma, MBBS, Ph.D.
Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Omaha, NE 68182-0216
Phone 402-554-2670
Fax 402-554-3693
Dr. Sharma’s education began in his native India, where he earned a degree in Medicine and Surgery, comparable to the MD degree offered in US medical schools. Before leaving for America, he also earned degrees in India that were comparable to MBA and MPH degrees in the United States.
Once in America, he continued his education at Minnesota State University, where he received a Master of Science degree, and at the Ohio State University, where he received his Ph.D. degree in Preventive Medicine/Health Behavior & Health Promotion from the College of Medicine and Public Health.
After completing his residency in Internal Medicine at Safdarjang Hospital in New Delhi, Dr. Sharma provided medical support and conducted health and family planning programs for Foster Parents Plan International, along with several other projects for India’s National Institute of Health and Family Welfare Management.
Since coming to the United States, Dr. Sharma has worked as a researcher and teacher at Southern Illinois University, Central Michigan University, Ohio State University, and Minnesota State University.
He was also Health Promotion Supervisor for the Columbus Health Department where he developed educational materials for enhancing physical activity, preventing smoking, augmenting healthy diet behaviors, and developing stress coping among school children.
It was while serving as Associate Professor of Community Health Education in the School of HPER at the University of Nebraska at Omaha that Dr. Sharma became Editor of the Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education.
In the fall semester of this year, he will be assuming new duties as Associate Professor, Health Promotion and Education at the University of Cincinnati. In addition to his teaching and research duties there, he will be responsible for supervision of undergraduate and graduate student internships and theses.
In addition to serving as editor of the Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, Dr. Sharma is Scientific Reviewer for the International Electronic Journal of Health Education, the American Journal of Health Behavior, Disability and Rehabilitation and the Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation.
As a writer he has coauthored two books, published 36 articles in peer-reviewed and scientific journals, and presented more than 50 papers and reports at national and international conferences including annual meetings of the American Public Health Association; the UAE Ministry of Health, European Union; Society of Public Health Education; and the Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine.
Journal Executive: Robert Hammond
Phone 517-485-9900
Fax 517-485-1928
When Bob Hammond left Emmanuel Missionary College in 1953 with a major in religion and minor in history, it was his intention to enter the ministry. Instead, he decided to take a year off before entering the seminary and accepted a job as educational secretary of the Michigan Temperance Foundation.
Once he was exposed to the dimensions of alcohol-related issues and the need for a better understanding of the role of alcohol in society, he opted for a career in the field. Later he entered graduate school, but not at the seminary, and received an M.A. Degree in Communications from Michigan State University.
In the summer of 1959, he attended the Yale University School of Alcohol Studies and later that year was appointed Executive Director of the Temperance Foundation, which had changed its name to the Michigan Council on Alcohol Problems (MICAP).
As Executive Director, he lectured in schools and churches and in 1960 he became a lobbyist in the state legislature, where he was actively involved with legislation to establish the state’s first chemical test law with provisions for implied consent of drivers suspected of DWI. He also became an advocate for laws that regulated the sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages.
It was in 1972 that Governor William Milliken appointed him to the State Alcoholism Advisory Committee, where the other members elected him Chairman. During the following two years, this group crafted a comprehensive education, prevention and treatment program that was adopted by lawmakers as the Office of Substance Abuse Services.
In 1978 he worked with the Coalition for 21, which generated grassroots support to place the drinking age issue on the ballot. As a result, voters made Michigan the first state to return its legal drinking age to 21 after having lowered it in 1970 to 18 through age of majority legislation.
Leaving MICAP to become director of Alcohol Research Information Service in 1979, he started a quarterly journal, The Bottom Line on Alcohol in Society, and a bimonthly newsletter, Monday Morning Report, which he still edits.
In addition to his editorial work with Alcohol Research, for 12 years he was a contributing editor to the GLOBE, an international magazine on alcohol and other drug issues.
Following the retirement of Allen Rice, he was appointed Journal Executive in January 2004.
