================================================== Patricia Lee Engle, retired faculty member and past chair of the Psychology and Child Development Department, died Sept. 24 after a yearlong battle with lung cancer. Engle, 67, was an internationally recognized early child development expert who spent her life circling the globe helping developing nations improve nutritional and educational opportunities for children. She did research and program implementation work in Guatemala, India and many other nations as senior advisor for early childhood development for the United Nations Children's Educational Fund (UNICEF). ================================================== 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
Strategies for reducing inequalities and improving developmental outcomes for young children in low-income and middle-income countries (with Lia C.H. Fernald, Harold Alderman, Jere Behrman, Chloe O'Gara, Aisha Yousafzai, Meena Cabral de Mello, Melissa Hidrobo, Nurper Ulkuer, Ilgi Ertem, and Selim Iltus), The Lancet (2011)
This report is the second in a Series on early child development in low-income and...
Use of Family Care Indicators and Their Relationship with Child Development in Bangladesh (with Jena D. Hamadani, Fahmida Tofail, Afroza Hilaly, Syed N. Huda, and Sally M. Grantham-McGregor), Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition (2010)
Poor stimulation in the home is one of the main factors affecting the development of...
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,...