Erin Lebow-Skelley

Erin Lebow-Skelley, MPH, earned her Master of Public Health degree in Health Behavior at the University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Global Public Health. Since joining the EPRC in 2015, Ms. Lebow-Skelley has managed our smoke-free multi-unit housing initiatives and communications, including translating our science into plain language infographics for the general public. Ms. Lebow-Skelley also manages the community engagement and evaluation activities for the HERCULES Exposome Research Center where she builds and sustains partnerships between HERCULES and Atlanta-area communities to address local environmental health concerns and evaluates those efforts. Before joining the EPRC, Ms. Lebow-Skelley worked on the Evaluation Team of the Prevention Research Centers Program at the CDC, where she and a team designed and implemented the evaluation of the Prevention Research Centers network. While in North Carolina, she worked on a variety of chronic disease prevention projects, including a smoke-free multi-unit housing communication initiative with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and several local food systems projects with UNC’s Prevention Research Center. Ms. Lebow-Skelley also has a background in early childhood development and home visiting. Her interests include community engagement, program evaluation, and social ecological approaches to preventing chronic disease and improving health equity.