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. After joining the EPRC in 2015, Ms. Lebow-Skelley managed our smoke-free multi-unit housing initiatives and communications, including translating our science into plain language infographics for the general public. She currently serves as an advisor to the BreatheEasy Georgia Homes Program. 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.