Dabney Evans PhD, MPH

Dabney P. Evans, PhD, MPH is an exceptional public health leader, serving as an Associate Professor of Global Health in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Dr. Evans received her Master of Public Health degree in 1998 from Emory University and her doctoral degree in law from the University of Aberdeen (UK) in 2011. Her research is focused on the intersections of gender, health and human rights including current projects on: care coordination for survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) (Atlanta, Ga); the development of an online safety decision aid for IPV survivors (Brazil); and femicide perpetration (global). She is a member of the scientific advisory group for The Lancet Commission on Gender-Based Violence and the Maltreatment of Young People.

As one of the first faculty to include health and human rights in the public health curriculum, Dr. Evans is an established teacher and trainer. Since 2010, her teaching and training activities have touched over 50,000 learners from 171 countries; she is responsible for the training of one in every ten employees at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She has mentored over sixty-five Master’s theses. She served as Co-Director of Graduate Studies for the Hubert Department of Global Health between 2016-2021. She is currently the Education Core Director for the Injury Prevention Research Center at Emory (IPRCE). Dr. Evans has published over ninety book chapters, scholarly articles and commissioned works; she has made over 200 peer-reviewed and invited presentations. Her public scholarship has appeared in the Pacific Standard, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Ms. Magazine and The Hill, where she is a regular contributor; in 2015 she presented a TEDx talk. She is on several editorial boards.

Dr. Evans is a member of the Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society, Omicron Delta Kappa National Service Honor Society, past-president of the Georgia Federation of Professional Health Educators, and past chair of the Human Rights Forum of the American Public Health Association. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Crystal Apple for excellence in professional school education (2015), the Unsung Heroine Award (2016), the American Public Health Association Mid-Career Award in International Health (2017), the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health Early Career Teaching Award (2018) and the Hubert Department of Public Health Research Award (2021). She is a Board member of the Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence and a member of the DeKalb County Domestic Violence Taskforce. She is fluent in Portuguese.