Immaculate Apchemengich, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Dr. Immaculate Apchemengich is a public health researcher at AMTC & Associates, where she provides research and evaluation support to AMTC associates and clients. She is also responsible for quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis, performance measurement, and assisting with survey instrument design, report writing, and dissemination.
Apchemengich originally joined AMTC as an intern and gained significant hands-on experience in program evaluation and report writing while working on the evaluation of multiple Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Programs. Today, as an AMTC research associate, she also applies previous experiences, including her work on two National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded projects. The first was a randomized control trial (ReStart) that examined the efficacy of a behavioral intervention to reduce repeat STIs among at-risk populations in Milwaukee; the second was a descriptive study with the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee (UWM) Self-Management Science Center. In these projects, Apchemengich conducted data collection, data management, and analysis using SAS and SPSS.
Apchemengich brings other skills to AMTC including facilitation of both group and individual education sessions using motivational interviewing (for the evidence-based Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS) program at UWM); development of educational materials through the review and synthesis of health education program development literature; and charting and analysis of data (UWM ACHA) to inform health services planning.
Apchemengich earned her Ph.D. in Public Health from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Methodist University in Fayetteville, North Carolina. She has also received formal training in community and behavioral health promotion topics such as Program Planning and Implementation, Program Evaluation, Survey Research Methods, Principles of Community Intervention Research, Applied Quantitative and Statistical Research Methods, and Qualitative Methods in Health Research. Apchemengich is an active member of the American Public Health Association and the International Union for Health Promotion and Health Education.