Environmental Health Sciences Research Center

University of Iowa College of Public Health

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Edith A. Parker, MPH, DrPH

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Center Affiliation and Expertise: Community Engagement Core

A constant theme of my research is the design of community health promotion interventions that address major social determinants of health and health disparities, particularly those that use a Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) approach. Since 1998, my research has combined my knowledge and interest in CBPR with an interest in the intersection of environmental health and health behavior and health education. I am particularly interested in how health promotion theories and models, from individual to policy level, can: be applied to assist in the assessment of pathways of environmental exposures; aid in designing interventions to reduce exposures (Parker et al., 2004); and inform dissemination and translation of results of environmental exposure assessment studies for policy change.

 

Publications:

  • Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Turkelson A, Franzblau A, Diebol JK, Allerton LA, Parker EA. The effect of misunderstanding the chemical properties of environmental contaminants on exposure beliefs: a case involving dioxins. Sci Total Environ. 2013 Mar 1;447:293-300. PubMed PMID: 23391895; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3652325.
  • Parker EA, Chung LK, Israel BA, Reyes A, Wilkins D. Community organizing network for environmental health: using a community health development approach to increase community capacity around reduction of environmental triggers. J Prim Prev. 2010 Apr;31(1-2):41-58. PubMed PMID: 20306137; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2891016.
  • Parker EA, Israel BA, Robins TG, Mentz G, Xihong Lin, Brakefield-Caldwell W, Ramirez E, Edgren KK, Salinas M, Lewis TC. Evaluation of Community Action Against Asthma: a community health worker intervention to improve children’s asthma-related health by reducing household environmental triggers for asthma. Health Educ Behav. 2008 Jun;35(3):376-95. PubMed PMID: 17761540; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4676080.
  • Parker EA, Baldwin GT, Israel B, Salinas MA. Application of health promotion theories and models for environmental health. Health Educ Behav. 2004 Aug;31(4):491-509. PubMed PMID: 15296631.
  • Israel BA, Schulz AJ, Parker EA, Becker AB. Review of community-based research: assessing partnership approaches to improve public health. Annu Rev Public Health. 1998;19:173-202. PubMed PMID: 9611617.
  • Parker E, Margolis LH, Eng E, Henr�quez-Rold�n C. Assessing the capacity of health departments to engage in community-based participatory public health. Am J Public Health. 2003 Mar;93(3):472-6. PubMed PMID: 12604498; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1447766.
  • Parker EA, Israel BA, Williams M, Brakefield-Caldwell W, Lewis TC, Robins T, Ramirez E, Rowe Z, Keeler G. Community action against asthma: examining the partnership process of a community-based participatory research project. J Gen Intern Med. 2003 Jul;18(7):558-67. PubMed PMID: 12848839; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1494884.
  • Methods for Community-Based Participatory Research for Health. Second Edition ed. Israel BA, Eng E, Schulz AJ, Parker EA, editors. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass; 2013.
  • Batterman S, Du L, Parker E, Robins T, Lewis T, Mukherjee B, Ramirez E, Rowe Z, Brakefield-Caldwell W. Use of Free-standing Filters in an Asthma Intervention Study. Air Qual Atmos Health. 2013 Dec;6(4):759-767. PubMed PMID: 24436726; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3889137.
  • Sampson NR, Parker EA, Cheezum RR, Lewis TC, O’Toole A, Patton J, Zuniga A, Robins TG, Keirns CC. A life course perspective on stress and health among caregivers of children with asthma in Detroit. Fam Community Health. 2013 Jan-Mar;36(1):51-62. PubMed PMID: 23168346; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3984896.
  • Parker EA, Chung LK, Israel BA, Reyes A, Wilkins D. Community organizing network for environmental health: using a community health development approach to increase community capacity around reduction of environmental triggers. J Prim Prev. 2010 Apr;31(1-2):41-58. PubMed PMID: 20306137; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2891016.
  • Parker EA, Israel BA, Robins TG, Mentz G, Xihong Lin, Brakefield-Caldwell W, Ramirez E, Edgren KK, Salinas M, Lewis TC. Evaluation of Community Action Against Asthma: a community health worker intervention to improve children’s asthma-related health by reducing household environmental triggers for asthma. Health Educ Behav. 2008 Jun;35(3):376-95. PubMed PMID: 17761540; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4676080.
  • Eng E, Parker E, Harlan C. Lay health advisor intervention strategies: a continuum from natural helping to paraprofessional helping. Health Educ Behav. 1997 Aug;24(4):413-7. PubMed PMID: 9247821.
  • Parker EA, Schulz AJ, Israel BA, Hollis R. Detroit’s East Side Village Health Worker Partnership: community-based lay health advisor intervention in an urban area. Health Educ Behav. 1998 Feb;25(1):24-45. PubMed PMID: 9474498.
  • Eng E, Parker EA. Emerging Theories and Models in Health Promotion Research and Practice. DiCliemente R, Crosby R, Kegler M, editors. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass; 2002. Natural helper models to enhance a community�s health and competence; p.126-156.
  • Parker EA, Israel BA, Robins TG, Mentz G, Xihong Lin, Brakefield-Caldwell W, Ramirez E, Edgren KK, Salinas M, Lewis TC. Evaluation of Community Action Against Asthma: a community health worker intervention to improve children’s asthma-related health by reducing household environmental triggers for asthma. Health Educ Behav. 2008 Jun;35(3):376-95. PubMed PMID: 17761540; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4676080.