Enola Proctor
Research Professor
Shanti K. Khinduka Distinguished Professor (2014-2018)
Contact
Phone: 314-935-6660
Email: ekp@wustl.edu
Education
PhD, Washington University
Areas of Focus
Mental health services delivery
Strategies for implementing evidence-based practices
Health services delivery
Evaluation of clinical social work
Biography
Enola Proctor鈥檚 research is motivated by the question, how do we ensure that people receive the very best possible care? She has studied this question in a variety of social work, public health, and health care settings, ranging from hospitals to community agencies. She has contributed to the intellectual capital for the rapidly growing field of dissemination and implementation science, leading teams to distinguish, clearly define, develop taxonomies, and stimulate more systematic work to advance the conceptual, linguistic, and methodological clarity in the field.
Proctor鈥檚 research has been funded by the NIA, AHRQ, and the NIMH for 26 consecutive years. She directs the , a training program in implementation science funded by the National Institute for Mental Health. She led the establishment of several university-wide centers and cores in implementation science, including the Center for Dissemination and Implementation for the Washington University Institute for Public Health and the Dissemination and Implementation Research Core for Washington University鈥檚 CTSA program.
Proctor鈥檚 awards include Washington University鈥檚 Arthur Compton Holly Distinguished Faculty Award, the Society for Social Work and Research鈥檚 Distinguished Research Award, and the American Public Health Association Stephen M. Banks Award for Outstanding Mentoring in mental health services.
In Brown School News
Chinese translation of 鈥淒issemination and Implementation Research in Health鈥� published
September 4, 2026
Brown School faculty among the world鈥檚 top influential scientists
October 10, 2025
Brown School training program funding renewed, continues decades of聽work
August 13, 2025
Brown School faculty named to聽鈥榃orld’s Top 2% Scientists鈥� list
November 12, 2024
Proctor, Powell Recognized as Highly-Cited Researchers by Clarivate
December 14, 2021
Publications
Toolkits for dissemination and implementation research: Preliminary development
Journal of Clinical and Translational Science
2018
Building Capacity for dissemination and implementation research: One university’s experience
Implementation Science
2017
American Journal of Community Psychology
July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 03 2018