Doug Evans is a Professor of Prevention and Community Health, and of Global Health, and Director of the Public Health Communication and Marketing Program.

Dr. Evans has published widely on the effectiveness of social marketing and behavior change interventions in various subject areas and global settings. His current research focuses on the use of branding strategies in public health and the development and evaluation of new health technologies including mobile health. In 2008, he published the volume, Public Health Branding, and is currently finishing a second book, Global Social Marketing Research, both from Oxford University Press. Dr. Evans is currently a member of the Secretary of Health and Human Service's National Advisory Committee on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (Healthy People 2020). He is also an expert panel member for the health marketing and health communication review of the Guide to Community Preventive Services. Dr. Evans consults on numerous global health programs, including branding of condom use and condom social marketing programs in Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe and former Soviet states in collaboration with USAID and World Bank funded programs. He is currently consulting with USAID on evaluation of mobile health programs in Russia. Dr. Evans currently is Principal Investigator (PI) of a grant from the Department of Defense to evaluate the text4baby mobile health intervention for Military Health Service (MHS) populations. The text4baby program uses an evidence-based protocol of text messages to promote healthy pre-natal neonatal parenting behaviors and is targeted to the needs of low-income women with limited access to health information. He also has funding from the Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition (HMHB) to evaluate text4baby in the predominantly Spanish-speaking immigrant population of Fairfax County, Virginia in collaboration with Fairfax Department of Health. He is also PI of a 5-year grant from the Department of Health and Human Services to evaluate an innovative repeat teen pregnancy prevention demonstration project, currently being implemented in the District of Columbia. The project uses video-training and social media in a strengths-based intervention that targets Parent-Child Connectedness (PCC) to improve life skills. Dr. Evans is also an investigator in the Center of Excellence in Health Disparities Research, funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. He is an investigator on the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) funded study entitled "Testing Message Frames About the Preventive Services Task Force." Finally, he is the PI of a National Institute on Drug Abuse funded Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant entitled "Behavioral Brand Builder," which is developing a prototype online health branding education tool for health and health care professionals.