Professor David Evans

• Qualifications:DPhil, FFPH, MA, BA, RGN
• Position:Professor in Health Services Research
• Department:HAS - Health and Social Sciences
• Telephone:+441173288750
• Email:David9.Evans@uwe.ac.uk

Area of expertise

David is Emeritus Professor in the Centre for Public Health and Wellbeing. His research interests include the history of public health, public involvement in public health and public health leadership and workforce development.

David is on the board of the UK Public Health Register and a member of the Faculty of Public Health workforce committee. He is also a trustee of the Centre for Health and the Public Interest.

Prior to joining UWE Bristol, David was one of the first English directors of public health from a background other than medicine.

 Recent open access publications:

David Evans (2025) 'How old are you, boy?' An autobiographical history of working as a sexual health adviser in 1980s Britain Social History of Medicine

 David Evans (2024) 'Initially this work was done by doctors, often ineffectively ...': the history of sexual health advising in twentieth-century England Modern British History

Marisha Palm, Daviid Evans, Sophie Staniszewska et al. (2024)  Public involvement in UK health and care research 1995-2020: reflections from a witness seminar  Research Involvement and Engagement

Publications

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