Victim Researcher Profile
STATE
Georgia
INSTITUTION
Emory University-Rollins School of Public Health
TITLE
Associate Professor
EDUCATION
Bachelor's, Master's, PhD
DISCIPLINE
Public health
YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
More than 20 years
BIO
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 gender, health and human rights including current projects on: intimate partner violence during the COVID-19 pandemic (US); the commercial sexual exploitation of children (US); femicide prevention (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. An editor of the text, Rights-Based Approaches to Health, Dr. Evans has advanced human rights discourse across a range of public health issues. Dr. Evans has published over forty 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.
VICTIMIZATION FOCUS
Child Abuse and Sexual Abuse, Child Trafficking and Exploitation, Domestic and Family Violence, Sexual Abuse or Violence (other than campus sexual assault), Trafficking in Persons
SPECIAL POPULATIONS
Child victims, LGBTQ victims
RESEARCH EXPERTISE
Action research, Community-based participatory research, Data collection, Descriptive studies, Needs assessment, Program evaluation, Qualitative studies, Quantitative studies, Quasi-experimental studies, Randomized controlled trial
VICTIM RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Action research, Community-based participatory research, Data collection, Descriptive studies, Needs assessment, Program evaluation, Qualitative studies, Quantitative studies, Quasi-experimental studies, Randomized controlled trial, Training and/or technical assistance
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