Faculty and Staff
Karl E. Umble
Karl received an MPH in Health Behavior and Education from the University of Alabama-Birmingham School of Public Health, and a PhD in Adult Education from the University of Georgia. Dr. Umble worked as a Health Educator with the Virginia Department of Health, where he consulted with and trained field staff, designed programs, conducted evaluations, and wrote proposals. While obtaining his PhD, he consulted in training evaluation with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 1998, he joined the North Carolina Institute for Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, where his focus is on instructional assessment and program evaluation related to continuing education and distance learning. His main research areas are continuing professional education and distance learning, program planning, and assessment and evaluation. His publications have appeared in the American Journal of Public Health, Evaluation & the Health Professions, Adult Education Quarterly, Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, and other forums.