Nancy Mock
associate professor

Department(s):
Global and Community Health - BSPH
International Health and Development

Email:
mock@tulane.edu

Research Interests:
Complex emergencies and disasters management; program evaluation; managing the development process

Professional Achievements:
2006-2007 Advisory Council, World Vision Hurricane Relief Assistance Program
2006 CDC Expert Panel, Rapid Needs Assessment, post disaster
2006 Technical Assistance for Non-Profit Organizations, Southern Africa drought CSAFE food aid evaluation
2005-2007 Technical Advisory Group, World Food Program Strengthening Emergency Needs Assessment Capacity
2005 Technical Assistance for Non-Profit Organizations, Southern African Vulnerability Assessment Evaluation Study
2005 Executive Steering Committee: Medical Aspects of Consequence Management Training Conference
2003-2004 Senior Evaluation Consultant, PASS/DFID External Assessment Strategic Planning of the Food Insecurity Vulnerability Information and Mapping
Member, American Academy for the Advancement of Science
Member, Global Disaster Information Network
Member, American Evaluation Association
Member, Society for International Nutrition Research

Educational Background:
DrPH, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
BS, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Publications:
Rose D, Chotard S, Oliveira L, Mock N, Libombo M. A comparative evaluation of dietary indicators used in food consumption assessments of at-risk populations. Food Nutr Bull. 2008 Jun;29(2):113-22.

Mock N, Garfield R. Health tracking for improved humanitarian performance. Prehosp Disaster Med 2007, Sept-Oct;22(5):377-83.

Mock, Nancy, Ralte, Anne, and Guha-Sapir, Deborati. Famine in the Public Health Consequences of Disasters, Second Edition (in press).

Burnham, Gilbert; Bazeyo, William; Mock, Nancy, Killewo, Japhet. Public Health Leadership: A Fresh Approach, East African Journal of Public Health (in press).

Rose, Donald, Chotard, Sophie, Oliveira, Leila, Mock, Nancy and Limbombo, Marcella. A Comparative Evaluation of Dietary Indicators Used to Assess Vulnerability of At-Risk Populations, Journal of Nutrition (submitted December 2006).

Nancy B Mock, Sambe Duale, Lisanne F Brown, Ellen Mathys, Heather C O'Maonaigh, Nina KL Abul-Husn and Sterling Elliott. Conflict and HIV: A framework for risk assessment to prevent HIV in conflict-affected settings in Africa Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2004, 1:6 (29 Oct 2004).

Hotchkiss, David R., Nancy B. Mock, and Eric E. Seiber. The Role of the Health Care Supply Environment on Children’s Nutritional Status in Rural Nepal, Journal of Biosocial Science , April: 145-172, 2002.

Personal Statement:
Nancy Mock currently serves as the director of the Tulane Center for International Resource Development, and is a tenured associate professor in the department at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. As center director, she is responsible for the development and management of international projects valued at over 4.5 million dollars annually. She has nearly twenty years of international experience in health sector program design and research. Current projects include: a) the Support for Analysis and Research in Africa (SARA) Project, this project is designed to improve the gathering, generation, synthesis and dissemination of information about common health problems and emerging social issues in Africa in an effort to improve the efficiency of the health and social sectors, and b) Complex Emergency Response and Transition Initiative (CERTI), a crisis coordination project that aims to prevent and mitigate conflict, improve timely and appropriate response, and offers support to populations affected by conflict in transition. In addition, she is currently involved in the development of a school of public health in Rwanda. Mock has field experience in all major geographic regions of the developing world, is fluent in French and competent in Spanish.

Contact Information:
1440 Canal Street
Suite 2200
New Orleans, LA 70112
Phone: 504.988.7318
Fax: 504.988.3653
E-mail: mock@tulane.edu

Level of Instruction:
graduate