Profile

B.S. in School Health Education Central Michigan University 1988
M.A. in School Health Education Ball State University 1989
Doctorate of Health and Safety (HSD), School and College Health Education, Human Sexuality Education Indiana University 1998
M.P.H.in Social and Behavioral Health Indiana University 2006

• Clinical Professor, 2014-present
• Assistant Department Chair, Department of Applied Health Science, 2008-present
• Co-Director of Community-Engaged Research, Center for Community Engaged Dissemination, and Implementation Research (CCEDIR), 2024-present
• Faculty Liaison/Mentor, Introduction to Public Health, Advance College Program, 2024-present
• Director, MPH Professional Practice Experience Program, 2024-present
• Co-Chair, Student Affairs Committee, Bloomington Faculty Council, 2023-2025
• Director, Public Health Programs, 2011-2016
• Director of Public Health Programs, IUB School of Public Health, 2011-2016
• Director, Office of Community Health Engagement, IUB School of Public Health, 2010-2011
• Public Health Educator, Delaware County Health Department, Muncie, IN 1989-1992
• HIV/AIDS Counseling and Test Site Coordinator, Delaware County Health Department, Muncie, IN 1990-1992

Teaching, Service and Research Experiences and Interests

Experience teaching Human Sexuality, Teaching Methods in Sexual and Reproductive Health, Pedagogy in Health Behavior, Public Health Program Planning, Assessment, Intervention Design, Nature of Cancer, Personal Health, Epidemiology, Surveillance in Sexual and Reproductive Health, Public Health Practicum and Internship Experiences.

Creative and Scholarly Projects include a teen texting program related to health and wellness, prevention and treatment of childhood obesity through educational interventions, impact of pedagogy courses on the development of graduate student instructors, the assessment and implementation of teen pregnancy prevention in rural communities, professional development workshops for teachers responsible for sexuality education in their classrooms, sexuality education in special education classrooms, educational programs for middle and high school students on healthy relationships, and community health needs assessment and health improvement plans.

Grants and Contracts

• 2025-2026 Indiana University Women's Philanthropy Council, The Healthy Relationships for Rural Youth Initiative (HRRYI) project. (Co-PI) 
• 2024-2025 Award from the School of Education, Indiana University-Bloomington, Project Title: "Evaluating a Caregiver-Child Educational Intervention to Promote Healthy Relationships for Rural Youth." (Co-PI)
• 2023 kNOT Today Foundation, "What Would I Do" Program (Consultant)
• 2021-2023 Indiana University Health HRSA-RCORP Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Project funded by HRSA. (Consultant)
• 2019-2024 Rape Prevention and Education, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Indiana State Department of Health, Office of Women's Health (Co-PI)
• 2019-2022 Project UNITE Orange County, funded by the Indiana University-Bloomington Center for Rural Engagement (Co-PI)
• 2019-2021 Sexual Health Equity for School-Aged Youth with Special Needs, funded by the Clinical and Translational Science (Co-PI)
• 2019-2020 Healthy Relationships and Digital Communication, funded by the Indiana State Department of Health, Office of Women's Health (Co-PI)
• 2016-2022 Text-based program for adolescent health, partnership with IU Health Riley Physicians, funded by the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington (Co-PI)

Awards and Honors

• 2024: Gordon Faculty Award, Office of Student Life, Indiana University-Bloomington
• 2022: Teaching Excellence Award, Association of Schools and Programs in Public Health
• 2020: Indiana University Bicentennial Medal
• 2020: Nomination for the 2020 Lyndon Haviland Public Health Mentoring Award
• 2017: Distinguished Service Award, Indiana University-Bloomington
• 2015: Founding Dean's Medallion, School of Public Health-Bloomington
• 2015: Outstanding Service Award, School of Public Health-Bloomington, Indiana University
• 2014: Tony and Mary Hulman Health Achievement Award for Innovative Public Health Programming, Indiana Public Health Association
• 2011: Women Excel Bloomington Award, Bloomington Chamber of Commerce, Bloomington, IN
• 2003, 2005, 2008: Trustees Teaching Award

Kennedy, C., Evans, E. & Laughlin, C.M. (2024).  Fitness and Wellness: A Way of Life. 2nd Ed. Human Kinetics, Champaign, IL.  Responsible for revisions and updates to chapters on Human Sexuality and Reproduction, Addictions, and Cancer. 

Woodruff Atkinson, S., Kennedy, C., Evans, E. & Laughlin, C.M. (2021).  Fitness and Wellness in Canada: A Way of Life. Human Kinetics, Champaign, IL.  ISBN: 978-1-49258983-9. Responsible for writing chapters on Human Sexuality and Reproduction, Addictions, and Cancer.  Assisted with chapters on Cardiovascular Disease and Stress Management.

Kennedy, C., Evans, E. & Laughlin, C.M. (August 2018). Fitness and Wellness: A Way of Life. Human Kinetics, Champaign, IL. ISBN-13: 978-1492552666 and ISBN-10: 1492552666. Responsible for writing chapters on Human Sexuality and Reproduction, Addictions, and Cancer. Assisted with chapters on Cardiovascular Disease and Stress Management.

Lederer, A.M. & Sherwood-Laughlin, C.M. (2017). Becoming scholarly teachers: Assigning a pedagogical strategy paper and discussion forum to teach doctoral students about SoTL. In H. Blythe, C. Sweet & R. Carpenter (Eds.), It works for me with SoTL: shared tips for effective teaching. Stillwater, OK: New Forums Press.

Sherwood-Laughlin, C.M. (2014). Promotion of healthy sexuality: childhood. In Encyclopedia of Primary Prevention and Health Promotion 2nd edition, Gullotta, T & Bloom, M. Senior Editors

Draeger, B. (2012). When cancer strikes a friend. R. Abram (Ed). Sherwood-Laughlin, C.M. Chapter 2: Understanding the cancer experience. Skyhorse Publishing, New York, NY.

Editorial Consultant(2010-2011) Intimate relationships and sexual health: a curriculum for teaching adolescents/adults with high-functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders and other social challenges. Written by C. Davies & M. A. Dubie (2011). AAPC Publishing Shawnee Mission, KS. Provided consulting and editing for a teacher's textbook on teaching methods in human sexuality for students with autism spectrum disorders.

Greene, A., Simić Stanojević, I., Sherwood-Laughlin, C.M., Sangmo, D., Baugh, M., Greathouse, L., Chow, A., Myers, N., & Galyan, J. (2024). Teachers' perceptions of barriers to implementing school-based sexual health education for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. American Journal of Sexuality Education, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/15546128.2024.2429432

Decker, K., Sherwood-Laughlin, C.M., & Allen, S. R. (2024). Be better together: Importance of institution and network building. ENGAGE! Co-Created Knowledge Serving the Public Good. (5)3, 21-22 https://journals.indianapolis.iu.edu/index.php/ENGAGE/issue/view/1769

Greene, A., Baugh, M., Sherwood-Laughlin, C.M., Greathouse, L., Galyan, J., Simic Stanojevic, I., Sangmo, D., Jozkowski, K., Dubie, M., & Chow, A. (2024). Development of a sexual consent intervention for adolescents with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities. https://doi.org/10.1111/jar.13272

Baney, L., Greene, A., Sherwood-Laughlin, C., Beckmeyer, J., Crawford, B., Jackson, F., Greathouse, L., Sangmo, D., Ward, M., & Kavaya, S. (2022, December). It was just really hard to be pregnant in a smaller town...": Pregnant and parenting teenagers' perspectives of social support in their rural communities. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (Special Issue: Parenting and Mental Health), 19(24), 16906; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192416906 .

Boguslawski, M., Lohrmann, D., Sherwood-Laughlin, C., Eckes, S., Chomistek, A., & Applegate, T. (2021) Elementary school personnel and cultural factors affecting health education implementation in the high-stakes testing era. Journal of School Health, 91:10, 846-856, https://doi.org/10.1111/josh.13071  

Dutta, T., Agley, J., Meyerson, B.E., Barnes, P.A., & Sherwood-Laughlin, C., & Nicholson-Crotty, J. (2021, June). Perceived enablers and barriers of community engagement for vaccination in India: Using socioecological analysis. PloS one, 16(6), e0253318. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0253318

Emetu, R., Yarber, W., Sherwood-Laughlin, C. & Brandt, A. (2020) Self-reported sexual behavioral similarities and differences among young men who have sex with men with childhood sexual abuse histories: A qualitative exploratory study. American Journal of Men's Health 14, 4. https://doi.org/10.1177/1557988320949355

Dutta, T., Meyerson, B.E., Agley, J. Barnes, P.A., & Sherwood-Laughlin, C., Nicholson-Crotty, J. (2020). A qualitative analysis of vaccine decision makers' conceptualization and fostering of 'community engagement' in India. International Journal of Equity Health 19,185. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-020-01290-5

Carter, G., Jayawardene, W., Agley, J., Garcia, J., Miller, W., Sherwood-Laughlin, C., & Meyerson, B. (May-June 2019). Development of a 10-item tool to identify APN readiness to prescribe Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care. 30:3, 312-320. https://doi.org/10.1097/JNC.0000000000000038   

Hobson, K.A., Coryn, C., Fierro, L. & Sherwood-Laughlin, C.M. (2019).  Instruction of evaluation competencies in Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) accredited Master of Public Health degree programs. American Journal of Evaluation. 40, 590-606, https://doi.org/10.1177/1098214019845510  

Robinson, J.M., O'Loughlin, V.D., Kearns, K., & Sherwood-Laughlin, C.M. (2019). The graduate course in college pedagogy: survey of instructors of college pedagogy in the United States and Canada. College Teaching. 67:2, 109-119, https://doi.org/10.1080/87567555.2018.1558171

Legislative Tinkering a Distraction on Sex-ed. By Steve Hennefeld, published on February 22, 2018 on School Matters: K-12 Education in Indiana Blog,https://inschoolmatters.wordpress.com/2018/02/22/legislative-tinkering-a-distraction-on-sex-ed/#more-7205

Students Face Lack of Knowledge on Local Birth Control Options. By Lilly St. Angelo, published on December 8, 2017 in the Indiana Daily Student.http://www.idsnews.com/article/2017/12/cibirthcontrolaccess

Herbert, P., Henry, D., Sherwood-Laughlin, C.M., & Angermeier, L. (2014). Teacher and health service staff values regarding sexuality education in an urban school district in Indiana. Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality, 17.

Sherwood-Laughlin, C.M., Angermeier, L., Herbert, P., & Henry, D. (Fall 2014). Topics and content in human sexuality: what are school-based sexuality health educators teaching in the classroom? Indiana Journal for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.

Lederer, A.M., Sherwood-Laughlin, C., Kearns, K.D., & O'Loughlin, V.D. (2016). The development and evaluation of a doctoral-level public health pedagogy course for graduate student instructors. College Teaching. 64:1, 19-27, DOI:10.1080/87567555.2015.1064349 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/87567555.2015.1064349

O'Loughlin, V.D., Kearns, K.D., Sherwood-Laughlin, C.M. & Robinson, J.M. (2017). How do we train our future faculty to teach? A multidisciplinary comparison of graduate level pedagogy courses offered at a large Midwestern university. College Teaching. 65:4, 172-181.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/87567555.2017.1333081

Mayo, T., Barnes, P., Sherwood-Laughlin, C.M., Reece, M., DeWeese, S., Weiss-Kennedy, C., & Valenta, M.A. (2017). Exploring proxy measures of mutuality for strategic partnership development: a case study. Health Promotion Practice. 18:4, 598-606. https://doi-org.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/10.1177/1524839917704211

Robinson, J.M., O'Loughlin, V.D., Kearns, K., & Sherwood-Laughlin, C.M. (2019). The graduate course in college pedagogy: survey of instructors of college pedagogy in the United States and Canada. College Teaching. 67:2, 109-119, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/87567555.2018.1558171

Hobson, K.A., Coryn, C., Fierro, L. & Sherwood-Laughlin, C.M. (2019). Instruction of evaluation competencies in Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) accredited Master of Public Health degree programs. American Journal of Evaluation. https://doi.org/10.1177/1098214019845510

Students Face Lack of Knowledge on Local Birth Control Options. By Lilly St. Angelo, published on December 8, 2017 in the Indiana Daily Student. http://www.idsnews.com/article/2017/12/cibirthcontrolaccess