Eang King, CLS (NCA)
DTMI - Duke Center for Community Research (DCCR)
Regulatory Affairs/Compliance Administrator

Prior to her role with the DCCR, Eang King was the clinical trials manager for the Duke Infectious Disease Clinic with primary responsibility for policy interpretation and daily operational functions of the clinical trials unit and quality management activities.

Ms. King also served in a national AIDS Clinical Trials Group, Site Operations Subcommittee and has volunteered at the Community HIV forum, HIV Regional Training as well in numerous HIV/AIDS educational updates. Prior to her work with the Duke Infectious Disease Clinic, Ms. King worked for the Duke Institutional Review Board (IRB) Office and the Duke Bone Marrow and Transplant Clinic (BMT). At the IRB, Ms. King assisted the IRB Chairman in expediting the review of research protocols, consent forms and accompanying literature to ensure compliance with applicable Federal regulations (21 CFR 50/56 and 45 CFR 46, ICH Guidelines), as well as state and local-specific and generally accepted ethical standards.

. In addition, in her protocol management role with the Duke BMT clinic, Ms. King provided guidance and counseled new researchers regarding design, conduct and regulation of clinical trials. She also educated clinical, administrative and technical staff about standard operating procedures and processes for new, revised and supportive care protocols. In the DCCR, Ms. King will provide support for faculty and trainees to navigate the compliance system for research in community settings.

Mary Anne McDonald, MA, DrPH
DTMI - Duke Center for Community Research (DCCR)
Director, Faculty Training

Mary Anne McDonald, MA, DrPH, received her BA in American Studies from the University of Virginia in 1978 and her MA in Folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1985. After working as a folklorist and documentary photographer for over 10 years she returned to UNC and received her DrPH from the School of Public Health, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education in 1999.

Dr. McDonald served as a Research Associate in the Duke Department of Community and Family Medicine’s Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine from 2000-2005. She worked with Dr. Hester Lipscomb on two National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) funded Projects: Commercial Fishing Safety Study (2000-2003) and Surveillance Research Methods in the Construction Industry (2003-2005) as well as a 5-year National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) funded community based project investigating occupational health disparities among African American female poultry plant workers in northeastern North Carolina. In 2006 she worked with Dr. Sherman James of Duke’s Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, examining the Health of African Americans in the South since 1960.

Prior to her work at Duke, Dr. McDonald worked in the School of Public Health at UNC-Chapel Hill as an Ethnography Coordinator in the Department of Epidemiology and as a Project Director, Research Associate and Program Evaluation Coordinator in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education.

Dr. McDonald is the author of articles and book chapters on occupational exposure to risks and hazards, work and health disparities, lay health advisor training and the traditional culture of the American South. She has also been involved with environmental justice research and over the last fifteen years has observed and documented the emerging Latino community in North Carolina. Her main research interests are the social and cultural determinants of health, community-engaged research, emic concepts of health and illness, and health disparities. She has presented her work both nationally and internationally.