Qualifications

ABOUT GALEN EL-ASKARI

Since 1984, Galen El-Askari, MPH, principal of El-Askari Consulting, has worked with non-profits, advocacy organizations, public agencies, foundations, and individual social entrepreneurs to develop participatory approaches. Her primary interest lies in increasing individual and organizational capacity to improve community health and quality of life. Galen has presented nationally on community building, multi-cultural collaboration, and policy advocacy, and has authored numerous publications, which tie health education and planning theory to grounded practice.

As an evaluator, she has developed participatory data analysis processes that engage community stakeholders in all levels of planning and evaluation, including understanding, analyzing, and interpreting data for outcome-based planning. With a team of consultants, Galen has developed a highly interactive and hands-on training approach, called Discovery Zones, that allows diverse participants to explore technical information through collaborative learning.

Galen has directed both a county-wide tobacco control and a childhood lead poisoning prevention program, and developed and launched the Healthy Neighborhoods Project (a national model). She has worked in the fields of occupational health, women’s health, and alcohol, tobacco, and other drug prevention as a planner, trainer and evaluator.

She is also a regular guest lecturer at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health on cross-cultural organizing for health.