Health Education
Prevention & Promotion Inc. (HEPP)
Health Education, Prevention & Promotion, Inc. (HEPP) is a community-based organization, committed to reducing health disparities and dedicated to changing and saving lives through education, screening and support.
How we help
HEPP staff has extensive experience working with the uninsured and underinsured individuals from diverse racial and ethnic minority groups in Miami-Dade and Broward County. HEPP’s goals and objectives are focused on improving quality of life, reducing health disparities, and alleviating the burden of disability and death from diabetes, cancer, heart disease/stroke, and other chronic diseases/illness.
LEADERS IN HEALTH EDUCATION ....................................................
Our founders
Pascale D Auguste
Founder and Executive Director
Pascale D Auguste, RN, BSN is a registered nurse with over 20 years of experience in health administration and over 15 years of experience in public health. Ms. Auguste has worked extensively with the Haitian community and also with the African American and the Caribbean-American communities of…
Patricia Moise Dorcius
Co-Founder and Program Director
Patricia Moise Dorcius MD, MPH, MCHES is a physician in Haiti who has achieved a Masters in Public Health at Florida International University (FIU) and obtained her Masters as a Health Education Specialist (MCHES) . Her ability to communicate with the members of the community especially the Haitian…
Pierre Denizé
Co-founder
Pierre Denizé was a diabetic for many years and developed many of the complications of diabetes including hypertension, heart disease and kidney failure. As co-founder of the organization Mr. Denizé hoped that by telling his story and by educating and promoting others to develop healthy habits he could…