University of North Carolina
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education
School of Public Health CB #7440
Chapel Hill
NCUSA
27599
Biographical Sketch: Eugenia Eng, DrPH, MPH, is a Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education and Director of the Kellogg Health Scholars Postdoctoral Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Gillings School of Global Public Health. Dr. Eng’s body of work examines the lay health advisor intervention model, the concepts of community competence and natural helping, and the community assessment procedure, Action-Oriented Community Diagnosis. She has over twenty-five years of community-based participatory research experience including field studies conducted with rural communities of the U.S. South, West Africa and Southeast Asia to address socially stigmatizing health problems such as pesticide poisoning, breast and prostate cancer, and STDs.