Dawnyéa Jackson, PhD
ABOUT
Dawnyéa Jackson is a public health trained evaluator, researcher, educator, and project manager. She provides technical assistance on evaluation methods, tools, and reporting, and helps programs tell their story with data, showing where their services are succeeding and where they can improve. She has planned and conducted comprehensive evaluations of environmental and policy interventions to reduce alcohol- and tobacco-related harms, sexual assault, and suicide, and has worked on interdisciplinary teams across clinical, academic, and government settings. Her doctoral research developed and evaluated a mobile-application intervention to decrease sexual risk behaviors among college students. Her interests include women's health, sexual health, maternal and child health, behavioral health, and the social determinants of health.
EXPERIENCE
Co-Founder & Principal Consultant — HERE Consulting (Nov 2024–present)
Rescue | The Behavior Change Agency (2018–present)
Senior Director, Research (2021–present); previously Senior Research Scientist and Research Scientist
Research and Evaluation Fellow — Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS (2016–2018)
SHARP Evaluation Lead — U.S. Army Public Health Command (2014–2016)
Project coordinator and graduate research assistant roles at the University of South Carolina (including an NCI-funded prostate cancer education project) and the University of California, San Francisco (a Department of Defense funded STI- and pregnancy-prevention intervention); family planning counselor at Planned Parenthood of Maryland
EDUCATION
PhD, Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior — University of South Carolina
MS, Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling — University of Maryland
BS, Family Science — University of Maryland