Dr Amalee McCoy
Co-Principal Investigator, Parenting within the Public Health System in Thailand
Dr Amalee McCoy is the Project Lead for the Parenting within the Public Health System in Thailand Project. She has over 20 years of experience in child protection and child rights research, programming, policy advocacy, project design and management, and local capacity building with UN agencies, academia, international NGOs, and local NGOs in the Asian region, including UNICEF, UNESCAP, Plan Thailand, and ECPAT International.
Her research interests focus on the evidence-based prevention of violence against children, as well as the utilization of mixed methods to promote the development of socio-culturally relevant parenting programmes. Dr McCoy is an expert member on the MOPH Working Group on Parenting Education and has co-developed PLH training modules and manuals for Thailand, as well as advising Thai Government partners on programme process and impact evaluation. During 2018-2020, Dr McCoy was the Research Manager and Co-Investigator for the Parenting for Lifelong Health Thailand project, in partnership with UNICEF Thailand and the University of Oxford.
During 2015-2016, she supported the development of a five-year strategy for UNICEF Thailand and partners on the prevention of violence against children through parenting interventions, based on her qualitative research with Thai families and practitioners. Dr McCoy obtained her Doctor of Philosophy in Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation at the University of Oxford, UK.
