Well-Being Experts
In addition to our work related to health, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences also has varied research and extension programs designed to improve people’s well-being in North Carolina and beyond. Because agriculture is one of the most dangerous occupations, we have a longstanding agromedicine partnership with East Carolina University. We also have specialists who are experts in parenting, aging, child development, relationships, family financial management and health and safety in the home.
Kim Allen
Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist
4-H Youth Development and Family and Consumer Sciences
919-515-9139
kimberly_allen@ncsu.edu
Development and testing of a healthy relationship and marriage extension education project and outreach programs related to child development and parenting
Luci Bearon
Associate Professor and Extension Specialist
4-H Youth Development
919-515-9146
luci_bearon@ncsu.edu
Leadership for North Carolina Cooperative Extension’s involvement in the Powerful Tools for Caregiving partnership and Living Healthy (Stanford’s Chronic Disease Self-Management Program)>
Andrew Behnke
Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist
4-H Youth Development and Family and Consumer Sciences
919-515-9156
andrew_behnke@ncsu.edu
Development and testing of a healthy relationship and marriage education training project and of Spanish-language educational materials related to health and safety
Carolyn Bird
Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist
4-H Youth Development and Family and Consumer Sciences
919-513-7793
carolyn_bird@ncsu.edu
Involved with the Seniors Health Insurance Information Program, Medicare Part D Program and Rural Families Speak About Health project to assess factors affecting rural family health and well-being
Greg Cope
Associate Professor, Department Extension Leader and Agromedicine Coordinator
Environmental and Molecular Toxicology
919-515-5296
greg_cope@ncsu.edu
Coordination of university agromedicine program to protect the safety and health of North Carolina’s farmers
Sarah Kirby
Associate Professor and Extension Specialist
4-H Youth Development and Family and Consumer Sciences
919-515-2786
sarah_kirby@ncsu.edu
Participation in the North Carolina Healthy Homes Partnership, which improves the health and safety of children and their caregivers by reducing housing hazards that cause injury and disease
Julia Storm
Agromedicine Information Specialist
Environmental and Molecular Toxicology
919-515-7961
julia_storm@ncsu.edu
Piloting AgriSafe of North Carolina and Certified Safe Farm of North Carolina to protect the health and safety of North Carolina’s farmers
Maxine Thompson
Associate Professor Sociology
919-515-9020
maxine_thompson@ncsu.edu
Research on caregivers of people with severe and persistent mental illness and development of a culturally sensitive health literacy toolkit for sexually transmitted infections for the African-American community
Herbert Underwood
Professor
Biology
919-515-3838
herbert_underwood@ncsu.edu
Research using Japanese quail as a model for human mechanisms generating daily (circadian) and seasonal rhythms
Mary Wiggins
Extension Specialist
4-H Youth Development and Family and Consumer Sciences
919-515-9155
sandy_wiggins@ncsu.edu
Development of extension education programs related to environmental health and housing and of a healthy homes training center
