Professional Summary
Dr. Parker's research focuses on the development, implementation and evaluation of community-based participatory interventions to improve health status. Her current research is focused primarily in Detroit, Michigan, where she is involved in community-based participatory research projects focusing on women's and children's health and on childhood asthma and issues of environmental justice. Dr. Parker's work also focuses on methods of better understanding and operationalizing measures of community social dynamics, such as community capacity an community competence.
In July 2005, she became Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
Courses Taught
HBEHED646: Education of Patients in the Health Care Delivery System
HBEHED651: Program Development in Health Education
HBEHED685: Health Education Models of Practice and Interventions at the Community Level
Education
Dr.P.H., Health Behavior & Health Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1995
M.P.H., Health Behavior & Health Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1989
B.A., English, Davidson College, 1983
Research Interest & Projects
Community Action Against Asthma research project, which seeks to better understand and reduce environmental triggers of asthma for children in Detroit, MI.
Eastside Village Health Worker Project, which seeks to improve the health of women and children in Detroit, MI.
Selected Publications
Farquhar, S.A., Parker, E.A., Schulz, A.J., Israel, B.A. (April, 2006). Application of qualitative methods in program planning for health education interventions Health Promotion Practice, 7(2), 234-242.
Parker, E.A., Lewis, T.C., Israel, B.A., Robins, T.G., Mentz, G., Lin, X., Brakefield-Caldwell, W., Ramirez, E., Edgren, K.K. (2006). Evaluation of Community Action Against Asthma: A community health worker intervention to improve children's asthma-related health by reducing household environmental triggers for asthma Health Education & Behavior
Parker, E.A., Robins, T., Israel, B.A., Brakefield-Caldwell, W., Wilkins, D., Edgren, K. (2005). Developing and implementing guidelines for dissemination: The experience of the Community Action Against Asthma Project In B.A. Israel, E. Eng, A.J. Schulz, E.A. Parker (Ed.) Methods in Community-Based Participatory Research for Health. (285-306). Jossey-Bass.
Israel, B.A., Parker, E. A., Rowe, Z., Salvatore, A., Minkler, M., Lopez, J., et al. (2005). Community-based participatory research: Lessons learned from the Centers for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Environmental Health Perspectives, 113(10), 1463-71.
Edgren, K.K., Parker, E.A., Israel, B.A., Lewis, T.C., Salinas, M.A., Robins, T.G., Hill, Y.R. ( 2005). Conducting a health education intervention and an epidemiological research project involving community members and community partner organizations: The Community Action Against Asthma Project Health Promotion Practice, 6(3), 263-269.
Israel, B.A., Eng, E., Schulz, A.J., Parker, E.A. (eds.) (2005). Methods in Community-Based Participatory Research for Health Jossey Bass.
Parker, E.A., Baldwin, G.T., Israel, B.A., Salinas, M.A. (August, 2004). Application of health promotion theories and models for environmental health Health Education & Behavior, 491-509.
Parker, E.A., Baldwin, G., Israel, B.A., Salinas, M. ( 2004). Health promotion models and theories for environmental health Health Education & Behavior, 31(4), 491-509.
Parker, E. A., Margolis, L., Eng, E., & Hernriquez-Roldan, C. (2003). Assessing the Capacity of Health Departments to Engage in Participatory, Community-Based Public Health. American Journal of Public Health, 93, 472-276.
Professional Affiliations
American Public Health Association
Society of Professional Health Educators
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