Meme Wang-Schweig, Ph.D., is a senior scientist at Advocates for Human Potential (AHP). She is a public health scientist, grant writer, and evaluator with 10 years of experience. She has planned, developed, and implemented individual-level and environmental-level public health strategies in real-world community settings. Dr. Wang-Schweig is an expert in survey research and cross-cultural research methods. She is proficient in developing federal-level grant proposals from start to finish, from building intervention strategies to creating logic models to designing process and outcome evaluation plans. She is skilled in evaluating interventions and coalitions through developing and conducting surveys, focus groups, and semi-structured interviews; collecting, analyzing and interpreting data; and presenting findings through presentations, reports, and data briefs to a variety of audiences.

Prior to joining AHP, Dr. Wang-Schweig was a research assistant professor in the Division of Community Health Sciences at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health. Her content expertise includes immigrant populations, ethnic neighborhoods, health disparities/inequities, cultural adaptation of prevention programs, and family-based strategies to prevent adolescent risky behaviors. She completed a National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) postdoctoral fellowship on the environmental contexts of substance use behaviors at University of California at Berkeley School of Public Health and the Prevention Research Center/Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation. Dr. Wang-Schweig holds a Ph.D. in public health from the University of Illinois Chicago.  

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