Eve Nagler, CHES, ScD, MPH

Biography

Eve Nagler is a Senior Scientist in the Center for Community-Based Research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and Research Associate at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH).  She is an intervention researcher with a background in health behavior and health education.  The core of Dr. Nagler’s research focuses on the development and testing of behavioral interventions that are theory-driven and evidence-based. Central to her work is the translation of research into practice. To that end, she created a step-by-step approach to intervention development based on the Social Contextual Model of Health Behavior Change, which can be used by practitioners to develop programs that address the social context in which people live.  Dr. Nagler is a co-investigator at the HSPH Center for Work, Health and Wellbeing, where she is translating research findings to help worksites create and implement and initiatives that improve worker health.  She is also a co-investigator on a study to improve the health and safety of low-income food service workers as well as on a second study to disseminate a tested intervention designed to help school teachers in India quit tobacco use.
 
Prior to joining DFCI, Dr. Nagler served as the Director of Special Populations at the American Cancer Society’s National Home Office where she led efforts to broadly disseminate evidence-based interventions to reduce cancer risk among low-income and minority communities. She also developed numerous training curricula and led nation-wide training efforts to develop the capacity of staff to work with underserved communities.  Additionally, Eve has considerable experience working on international collaborative health projects, including work with the Peace Corps, World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Africa to combat malaria and with the United Nations Population Fund on family planning in Central Asia.
 
Dr. Nagler received her BSFS from Georgetown University, her MPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her ScD from the Harvard Chan School in Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Eve Nagler is a Senior Scientist in the Center for Community-Based Research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and Research Associate at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH).  She is an intervention researcher with a background in health behavior and health education.  The core of Dr. Nagler’s research focuses on the development and testing of behavioral interventions that are theory-driven and evidence-based. Central to her work is the translation of research into practice. To that end, she created a step-by-step approach to intervention development based on the Social Contextual Model of Health Behavior Change, which can be used by practitioners to develop programs that address the social context in which people live.  Dr. Nagler is a co-investigator at the HSPH Center for Work, Health and Wellbeing, where she is translating research findings to help worksites create and implement and initiatives that improve worker health.  She is also a co-investigator on a study to improve the health and safety of low-income food service workers as well as on a second study to disseminate a tested intervention designed to help school teachers in India quit tobacco use.
 
Prior to joining DFCI, Dr. Nagler served as the Director of Special Populations at the American Cancer Society’s National Home Office where she led efforts to broadly disseminate evidence-based interventions to reduce cancer risk among low-income and minority communities. She also developed numerous training curricula and led nation-wide training efforts to develop the capacity of staff to work with underserved communities.  Additionally, Eve has considerable experience working on international collaborative health projects, including work with the Peace Corps, World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Africa to combat malaria and with the United Nations Population Fund on family planning in Central Asia.
 
Dr. Nagler received her BSFS from Georgetown University, her MPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her ScD from the Harvard Chan School in Social and Behavioral Sciences.