Cam Escoffery

Cam Escoffery, PhD, MPH, CHES®, is an Associate Professor in the BSHES department at RSPH. She has an MPH from Emory University and a PhD from the University of Georgia in the area of health promotion. Her research interests are health promotion, cancer and chronic disease prevention and control, implementation science and evaluation. She also has considerable experience in conducting public health training for the Southeastern Institute for Training and Evaluation at RSPH, Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE), and Corporate University of CDC. She has led local and national trainings on how to locate, select, implement and evaluate evidence-based interventions for public health professionals. She was the PI of the Evaluating Special Events for Cancer Screening project which involved the conduct of a systematic review of the literature on special events and key informant interviews with practitioners who deliver special events in communities in addition to evaluation of multiple special events across the U.S. to learn more about their purpose, core components, sponsors, costs and outcomes. In addition, she is exploring the adoption and implementation of evidence-based intervention among CDC's Colorectal Cancer Control Program grantees across their years of implementation and evaluating a decision-support system to train on program adaptation among health professionals. She also worked with Drs. Kegler and Berg on the Smoke-free homes project with Atlanta United Way 2-1-1 to promote smoke-free homes among low-income families.