Engle, Molly

(b. 1947, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas). Ph.D. Program Evaluation/Research Design, M.S. Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing, B.S.N., University of Arizona.

Engle is Associate Professor, Department of Public Health, College of Health and Human Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis. She is also Evaluation and Grant Specialist, Extension Staff Development, Oregon State University. Previously, she held faculty and research and evaluation positions at the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham.

Her interest in the field of evaluation focuses on the role and scope that evaluation training has both nationally and internationally. Her work in this area is highlighted in Volume 62 of New Directions for Program Evaluation, “The Preparation of Professional Evaluators: Issues, Perspectives, and Programs.” She has produced and directed more than a dozen informational and prevention-oriented videotapes for Medical Television, such as Preventing Falls and Other Injuries in the Elderly; No Easy Answers: Ethical Dilemmas in Health Care for the Elderly; and Substance Abuse and the Pregnant Woman: A Series. She is also interested in the impact on and connection of evaluative thinking to systems thinking. Her work has been influenced by Phyllis Adele Germann, Keith Meredith, Sarah Dinham, Ruth Krall, Yvonna Lincoln, and Jennifer Greene.

She is a member of several organizations, including the American Evaluation Association, the American Society on Aging, and the Society for Prevention Research. She has served on numerous committees for the American Evaluation Association and has been President (2001–2003) and Board Member (1992 1994). She is also listed in Who's Who of American Women (2002–2003).