My Ethical Promise as a Health Education and Health Promotion Professional

• I promise to act with integrity by preventing, minimizing, and mitigating health harms while actively promoting and protecting public safety, health, and well-being.

• I promise to provide health education and exercise information that is grounded in evidence-based science and medicine, ensuring accuracy and reliability in my practice.

• I promise to be conscious of and responsive to social, racial, faith-based, and cultural diversity when assessing needs, planning programs, conducting evaluations, and engaging in research to protect individuals, groups, and communities from harm.

• I promise to respect and support the rights of individuals and communities to make informed health decisions, provided these choices do not pose harm to others.

• I promise to foster professional relationships that are ethical, supportive, and free from exploitation, ensuring a safe and respectful environment for clients, patients, community members, students, employees, and research participants.

• I promise to protect the privacy, confidentiality, and dignity of every individual and organization I work with, while respecting their rights to hold diverse values, attitudes, and opinions.

• I promise to embody the ethical principles of honesty, autonomy, beneficence, respect, and justice, and I will never engage in derogatory language, violence, bigotry, racism, harassment, or inappropriate sexual activities or communications in person or through technology.

• I promise to establish and maintain clear, appropriate, and culturally sensitive boundaries in all professional interactions, both physical and non-physical, with clients, sponsors, and colleagues.

• I promise to create a clear coaching or service agreement with my clients and sponsors before beginning any professional relationship, ensuring that all roles, responsibilities, and rights are clearly outlined and upheld.

• I promise to remain transparent and accountable in my professional work by engaging and including diverse publics, communities, and stakeholders in decision-making processes.

• I promise to uphold confidentiality by never disclosing client information to third parties without explicit written consent or unless legally required to do so.

• I promise to promote competence, honesty, and accuracy in all aspects of my work and to ensure that my decisions are free from undue influence by external or secondary interests.

• I promise to disclose any conflicts of interest in my professional practice, research, evaluation, and dissemination of information.

• I promise to be truthful about my qualifications and the limitations of my expertise, ensuring that the services I provide align with my training and competencies.

• I promise to adhere to all ethical standards and best practices required by my professional licensures, certifications, and credentials in health education and health promotion.