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Faculty
Joyvina Evans, Ph.D., MSPH MSA ( She/Her/Hers)
Graduate Chair-Master of Health Administration (MHA) & Assistant Professor
Department/Office
- Health Management
School/College
- College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences
Biography
Joyvina Evans, Ph.D., MPSH, MSA, earned a Ph.D. in public health with a specialization in community health promotion and education, master's in public health, master's in administration, and bachelor's of business in management. She successfully completed the Strategies for Higher Education Teaching and Learning certificate and Women in Education Leadership program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education.
Born in Norfolk, Virginia and raised in Flint, Michigan, Evans has over a decade of clinical, academic, and administrative research experience. Evans was the Project Lead and Research Manager in Cardiovascular Research at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, where she was responsible for all phases of development and recruitment for an Aortic biobank that housed blood and tissue of patients having open-aortic surgeries. She had direct oversight of the workflow, budget, purchasing, as well as hiring, training, and supervision of fifteen research assistants.
After working in research, Evans transitioned into higher education. She has worked as a subject matter expert on course developments, professor, and in leadership positions within undergraduate/graduate healthcare administration and public health programs. She holds an extensive background in online education and has experience building curriculum for new graduate programs and creating accelerated bachelors to masters schemes.
Evans is a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, American Public Health Association, and Association of University Programs in Healthcare Administration.
Education & Expertise
Expertise
Health Literacy
Women's Health
Mental Health and Burnout
Accomplishments
Accomplishments
CHER Summer Institute Fellow
The Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) Summer Institute Fellow sponsored by California State University-Long Beach is designed to increase the number of early career faculty members who are better prepared to become NIH principal investigators in the field of community-engaged biomedical research with basic, clinical, or behavioral outcomes to eliminate health disparities among racial/ethnic minority populations; and to increase the quantity and quality of health equity research targeting vulnerable ethnic minority populations developed by CHER Institute participants.
LEADS Fellow
The Leading Emerging and Diverse Scientists to Success (LEADS) Fellow in Translational Research sponsored by University of Pittsburgh's Institute for Clinical Research Education and Clinical and Translational Science Institute. LEADS provides training in grant writing skills and networking opportunities with the ultimate goal of Scholars successfully submitting a grant to a federal funding agency by the end of their fellowship. LEADS is sponsored by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH), grant R25 GM116740.
Featured News
Featured News
Read: Michigan Medicine | Woman seeks another answer for uterine fibroids after advice to undergo a hysterectomy
Read: Inside Higher Ed | All in a Day’s Work: 3 Quick Teaching Tips for Today
Read: Association for Women in Science | Meet Dr. Joyvina Evans: A Powerhouse for Women’s Health
Publications and Presentations
Publications and Presentations
The Role of Socioeconomic Status in Uterine Fibroid Awareness and Treatment
The Role of Socioeconomic Status in Uterine Fibroid Awareness and Treatment: a narrative review
This review aimed to characterize the socioeconomic disparities and inequities regarding uterine fibroids awareness, perceptions, and treatment and to understand how socioeconomic status impacts knowledge and treatment of uterine fibroids.
Just Get a Hysterectomy
An African American woman with uterine fibroids is advised to get a hysterectomy, despite the availability of less life-altering options.
The impact of health literacy on uterine fibroid awareness, diagnosis, and treatment in the U.S.
This review explores the impact of health literacy levels on uterine fibroid awareness, diagnosis, and treatment. PubMed, CINAHL, and Academic Search Premier searched articles published between January 1, 2012, and December 31, 2022.
The Necessity of Incorporating Health Literacy Content and Assessments in Healthcare Courses
The Necessity of Incorporating Health Literacy Content and Assessments in Healthcare Courses in Higher Education Digest
Are You Ok? Simple Solutions to Prevent Burnout
Are You Ok? Simple Solutions to Prevent Burnout in Higher Education Digest
Fibroids and Health Equity
While known health care disparities among patients with fibroids exist, there is a lack of research on health equity in this specific population and how it affects patients seeking care and the treatment options offered or ultimately the selection they make. Subject matter experts from interventional radiology, obstetrics and gynecology, epidemiology, public health, and patient advocacy participated in a Society of Interventional Radiology Foundation Research Consensus Panel to discuss and to prioritize critical research topics focusing on health equity in patients with uterine fibroids. After topic presentations and discussion of research ideas, the panelists prioritized the following topics: (a) a prospective study evaluating whether the introduction of a standard educational program to patients with low health literacy regarding fibroids improves their scores on standardized patient-reported outcome measures; (b) evaluation of whether a digital-based technology can be effectively used to improve health education and awareness of fibroids; and (c) performance of surveys of patients to understand their barriers to accessing fibroid care and their motivations for selecting different fibroid treatments.
