Lynn Blanchard

Lynn White Blanchard, PhD

Director
Carolina Center for Public Service
Associate Professor
Department of Health Behavior

About

Lynn Blanchard, PhD, is a clinical associate professor in the Department of Health Behavior and director of the Carolina Center for Public Service at UNC. She is primarily interested in research around public service, including community partnerships and collaboration, programmatic evaluation and service learning. Additionally, she has worked with a wide array of community programs and conducted training, evaluation and/or research in the areas of early intervention for children with special needs, HIV/AIDS prevention, communication and work style preferences, community-based collaboration and faculty development of community-engaged scholarship.

Honors and Awards

Knox Massey Distinguished Service Award
2019, UNC

Representative Courses

Philanthropy as a Tool for Social Change (HBEH 611) | Syllabus

Key Publications

Faculty for the Engaged Campus: Advancing Community-Engaged Careers in the Academy. Seifer, S.D, Blanchard, L.W, Jordan, C., Gelmon, S. and McGinley, P. (2012). Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 16(1), 5-20.

Institutional Initiatives, Institutional Highlights. Parkins, L. and Blanchard, L.W. (2012). Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 16(4), 195-196.

Education

  • PhD, Health Behavior and Health Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1989
  • MPH, Health Behavior and Health Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1985