Patrice L. Engle
Assoc. Department Chair & Professor
Office: 47-23F
Phone: (805) 756-2914
Email: pengle@calpoly.edu
Full Vita (pdf)
Education
Ph.D. Stanford University
BA. Wellesley College
Courses Taught
Psy 329 Research Methods
Psy 459 Lifespan Theories
Psy 465 Cross-Cultural Psychology;
WS 311 Women in Global Perspective
Research Interests
My overall area of interest is building evidence for solutions to the challenges in young children's development from a global perspective, such as poverty, HIV and AIDS, malnutrition or parenting practices. My research is on the effects of malnutrition on child development, family care practices and responsive feeding, women's empowerment and women's work and the role of fathers and the effect of these on children's growth and development. Because I am more interested in finding solutions than describing problems, I have worked in program evaluation in Guatemala, Peru, Uganda, India, and globally as an academic and for UNICEF. My publications are on the relationships of care practices, nutrition and child development, HIV and AIDs, and infant development from a cross-cultural perspective. I recently spearheaded a series of articles on Early Child Development published in the British medical journal The Lancet in January 2007.
Selected Publications/Professional Activities
- Engle, P.L. (in press). Infant development in the developing world. Wachs, T.D. (ed). Handbook for Infant development. London: Blackwell.
- Engle, P.L. (2008). National Plans of Action for Orphans and Vulnerable Children in sub-Saharan Africa: Where are the youngest children? Bernard van Leer Foundation Paper #50. The Hague: Bernard van Leer Foundation.
- Engle, PL., Maureen M. Black.et al. and the Lancet Child Development Series Steering Committee (2007). Strategies to avoid the loss of developmental potential in more than 200 million children in the developing world The Lancet, 369, 229-242.
- Engle, P.L., T. Beardshaw, and C. Loftin (2006). The child's right to shared parenting. In L. Richter and R. Morell, BABA: Men and Fatherhood in South Africa. HSRC Press: Capetown, South Africa.
- Alderman, H. and Engle, PL. (2007). The Synergy of Nutrition and ECD Interventions in Africa. In M. Garcia, J. Evans and A. Pence, (eds). ECD in Africa. Washington, DC: World Bank.
- I am on the Advisory Board of the Young Lives Longitudinal Project, the Center for the Developing Child at Harvard, the SRCD-UNICEF Partnership Project, and a member of the International Committee of the Society for Research in Child Development.