Conspiracy of Silence

ABOUT THE RESEARCHERS
David Wiley, Ph.D., Professor of Health Education at Texas State University and
Past-President of the American School Health and Texas School Health Associations, is a
lifelong health educator who has focused his professional life on addressing health issues
of adolescents. Dr. Wiley has authored over 40 peer-reviewed articles and has presented
over 150 keynote addresses and workshops across the United States on the role of schools in
creating healthy children and healthy communities. As a vocal advocate of coordinated school
health education, Dr. Wiley has testified on numerous occasions before the Texas State
Board of Education (SBOE), the Texas Legislature, and the Texas State Board for Educator
Certification (SBEC), and has also served on the SBOE Review Committee for the Texas
Essential Knowledge and Skills for Health Education.
The Texas Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (TAHPERD)
recognized Dr. Wiley in 1996 as the Outstanding College Health Educator in Texas. Dr.
Wiley has also received the Distinguished Service Award by the American School Health
Association (ASHA) in 1999 and in 2002 was awarded the Martha Licata Service Award by
the Texas School Health Association (TSHA). In 2005 he received the John P. McGovern
Award from the Texas School Health Association. He is also the 2014 recipient of the
William A. Howe Award, the most prestigious honor given by the American School Health
Association. He is also a former school board member for the Hays Consolidated I.S.D. in
Kyle, Texas. He is the father of one daughter and grandfather of one.
Faye Miller is a research fellow at the Texas Freedom Network Education Fund and a
former Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant recipient. She is currently a Master of Public
Affairs candidate at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas
at Austin, where she focuses on health education policy and reproductive rights domestically
and in the Middle East. Miller served as the primary researcher and point of contact for
school districts on this project and helped draft the bulk of the report. She completed a
Bachelor of Arts in anthropology and a Bachelor of Arts in Middle Eastern studies from the
University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she also completed a minor in Arabic language.
Her senior capstone thesis, “Making the Private Public: Sex Education in Jordan,” focused on
culture, religion and sex education in Jordan and the Middle East. After graduating, Faye used
her Fulbright research grant to study health education in public schools in the United Arab
Emirates.