Patrice Engle is a professor of Psychology and Child Development at Cal Poly University in San Luis Obispo, California, where she has been teaching since 1980. She is Associate Chair of the Psychology and Child Development Department and on the Women and Gender Studies’ Advisory Board. She teaches research methods, theories of development, cross-cultural psychology, and the global women’s studies course. She spent 7 years as Senior Advisor for Early Childhood Development in UNICEF, both in India and New York, a year working for WHO in Geneva and a year at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, DC, and 5 years in Guatemala. Her research, policy, and practice is in the linkages of nutrition, child development, and women’s status in developing countries. She studies family care practices and responsive feeding, women’s empowerment and women’s work, the role of fathers, the HIV and AIDS pandemic, and the effect of these on children’s growth and development. She has published a number of papers on the relationships of care practices, nutrition and child development. She has received grants from the Global Alliance in Nutrition, UNICEF Geneva, and USAID, and consulted for WHO, the World Bank, UNICEF in Central Asia, Inter-American Development Bank, PATH, and the Bernard van Leer Foundation, and recently spearheaded a series of articles on Early Child Development published in Lancet in January 2007.
Articles
Maternal Depression: A Global Threat to Children’s Health, Development, and Behavior and to Human Rights (with Theodore D. Wachs and Maureen M. Black), Child Development Perspectives (2009)
Depressive disorders are a common source of disability among women. In addition to the economic...
The Effect of Poverty on Child Development and Educational Outcomes (with Maureen M. Black), Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (2008)
Poverty affects a child’s development and educational outcomes beginning in the earliest years of life,...
Policies to Reduce Undernutrition Include Child Development (with Mauren M. Black, Susan P. Walker, Theodore D. Wachs, Nurper Ulkuer, Julie Meeks Gardner, Sally Grantham-McGregor, and Betsy Lozoff), The Lancet (2008)
Strategies to Avoid the Loss of Developmental Potential in More than 200 Million Children in the Developing World (with Maureen M. Black, Jere R. Behrman, Meena Cabral de Mello, Paul Gertler, Lydia Kapiriri, Reynaldo Martorell, Mary Eming Young, and International Child Development Steering Group), The Lancet (2007)
This paper is the third in the Child Development Series. The first paper showed that...
Infant Feeding Styles: Barriers and Opportunities for Good Nutrition in India, Nutrition Reviews (2002)
India has the lion’s share of malnourished children in the world. Poverty and social exclusion...