American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare

Enola Proctor, PhD

Active | Inducted in 2009

Bio

Enola Proctor is Research Professor and the Shanti K. Khinduka Distinguished Professor Emerita at the Brown School, Washington University, in St. Louis, MO. Her research focuses on the implementation of evidence-based behavioral health care in publicly funded health and social service settings and the evaluation of successful implementation. Her work advances the conceptual clarity and measurement precision of key implementation constructs, including implementation strategies and outcomes. She co- edited the first textbook in the field, Dissemination and Implementation Science in Health, now in its 3rd edition. Her work has been funded NIH for 33 consecutive years. A reviewer for many years for NIMH’s Services Research Review Committee, she served on the NIMH National Advisory Council from 2007-2011, and two National Advisory Committee workgroups, those on research workforce development and intervention research. She is a founding member of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare and was Editor-in-Chief of the research journal of the National Association of Social Work, Social Work Research.

At the Brown School, where she has been faculty for 52 years, her appointments include Associate Dearn for Research and Associate Dean for Faculty.

Her awards include the Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate Web of Science, since 2019; Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Social Work and Research in 2002; National Association of Social Workers’ Presidential Award for Excellence in Research in 1994; the Mental Health Professional of the Year award from the St. Louis Alliance for the Mentally Ill in 1997, and numerous teaching, mentoring, and faculty awards from Washington University, including its highest honor, the Arthur Holly Compton Faculty Achievement Award in 2009.