Eugenia (Geni) Eng, MPH, DrPH

Professor
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education
School of Public Health
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Eugenia Eng is Professor and Director of the Kellogg Health Scholars Program that offers postdoctoral training in the community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health.

Over the past 25 years, Dr. Eng has developed a body of CBPR work that is recognized, both nationally and internationally, for three contributions to public health practice. The relevance of her work to public health practice is reflected in the courses she teaches, her keynote addresses to national and statewide public health organizations, as well as her consultancies with multilateral agencies, private foundations, and federally-funded research projects. Dr. Eng has assisted health practitioners and researchers alike on the design and conduct of communitybased assessments, interventions, and evaluations in the US, Cameroon, People’s Republic of China, Lebanon, and twelve nations in Southeast Asia, Central America, Africa, and Eastern Europe.

In 1998, the APHA Public Health Promotion and Health Education Section awarded her the Mayhew Derryberry Award for outstanding contributions to health education research and theory. In 1999, Dr. Eng received the Robert F. Allen Symbol of H.O.P.E (Helping Other People through Empowerment) Award from the American Journal of Health Promotion. The H.O.P.E Award is for outstanding contributions to promoting cultural diversity and demonstrating significant achievement in serving the health promotion needs of underserved populations. In 2001, she received the Bernard Greenberg Alumni Endowment Award from the UNC School of Public Health for excellence in teaching, research and service. Dr. Eng is fluent in French and Cantonese, and functional in Ewe (a West African Bantu language).