Meet our staff:

Walter Charles, Ph. D.
is and Associate Professor of Psychology at North Carolina Central University. Dr. Charles is a cognitive psychologist with research interests in the acquisition and use of semantic knowledge, especially in the domain of processing of emotions. Other research interests are in health disparities and in psychometrics. Dr. Charles is Co-Principal Investigator of E-WATCH. His teaching interests are in areas of Research Methods in Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, and in General Psychology. Further teaching interests are in the development of laboratory activities for teaching General Psychology and advanced psychology courses.
Email: Walter Charles

Marci Campbell, Ph. D., MPH, RD
is a Professor in the Department of Nutrition. (PhD in Health Behavior and Health Education, University of North Carolina, 1992; MPH., University of North Carolina, 1977). Dr. Campbell’s research focuses on nutrition behavior change for health promotion and disease prevention. Dr. Campbell is the Program Leader in Cancer Control and Prevention at the UNC-CH Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. She has extensive expertise in nutrition, health behavior, and health communication in relation to cancer control research, particularly in the area of colorectal cancer (CRC) prevention, control, and survivorship. She has been the Principal Investigator on two colorectal cancer health communication studies including the NCI-funded project "Tailored and interactive strategies to prevent colon cancer: A population based study" (NC STRIDES) and "Colorectal Cancer Prevention in Black Churches" (WATCH) funded by the American Cancer Society and USDA. Dr. Campbell is currently a co-investigator on the NC Colorectal Cancer Care Outcomes Research Study (CANCORS) and Principal Investigator on the CDC-funded Colon Cancer Screening Among Urban African Americans (ACTS of Wellness), National Evaluation of a Fruit and Vegetable Intervention (Body & Soul), and HOPE Works (Health-Opportunities-Partnerships-Empowerment). She also serves as Director of the UNC CHAI Core and directs the Education Core of the Carolina Community Networks project.
Email: Marci Campbell

Marlyn Allicock Hudson, PhD, MPH
is a post-doctoral fellow at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at UNC-Chapel Hill. She completed her studies in the department of Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has a strong background in research focused on colorectal cancer prevention, minority health, and health communication. Dr. Allicock Hudson was the Project Coordinator for "Colorectal Cancer Prevention in Black Churches" [WATCH] funded by the American Cancer Society. She has extensive expertise with recruitment of African American churches, behaviors related to colorectal cancer risk reduction, the development of culturally sensitive tailored newsletters and has moderated focus groups, and trained lay health advisors. She currently serves as a co-investigator for the CDC funded Evaluation of Body & Soul Dissemination program, a faith based health initiative for African American churches. She will serve as a Co-Principal investigator for the E-WATCH program to supervise the intervention design and development.
Email: Marlyn Allicock Hudson

Curtis Jackson, MPH
Mr. Jackson will serve as the project coordinator for E-WATCH. He received his MPH from UNC’s Department of Health Policy and Administration - School of Public Health in the first class of non-physician health directors. He worked five years in School of Public Health in the Division of Community Health Services at UNC-CH. He has spent more than 25 years as manager, teacher, trainer, community organizer, and organized and conducted the first Health and Human Services Program for the General Baptist State Convention (a faith-based organization with a membership exceeding 400,000 in more than 1700 churches). As a consultant, he has trained health and human service professionals in methods of working with and through faith-based organizations to change behavior and to address disparity issues in the states of North Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, West Virginia, and California. He was selected to present the faith-based concept and work at the International Exposition on Rural Development in New Delhi, India where practitioners from 67 nations were convened to share approaches that work.
Email: Curtis Jackson

La-Shell Turnbull, BA
Ms. Turnbull has received a BA in Psychology from Shaw University, and is currently a graduate student in the Master of Psychology program at North Carolina Central University. She has worked with Dr. Daniel Howard’s Shaw University M-RISP Minority Elderly Research (SUMMER) Center focusing on health disparities research and for the Institute for Health, Social, and Community Research at Shaw University as a research assistant, for three years on various health disparity and minority health services research projects. She has also participated as a research assistant for the Shaw University Project EXPORT R24 (SUPER) Racial Disparity Research Program. As an intern in the Summer Pre-Graduate Research Program at UNC-Chapel Hill, she also worked with Dr. Giselle Corbie Smith at the Cecil G. Sheps Center on an HIV and minorities research project. She also serves as a graduate assistant to Dr. Walter Charles in the Psychology Department at North Carolina Central University. She will serve as a graduate research associate for E-WATCH.
Email: La-Shell Turnbull