Chalanda Evans | Project Lead
Chalanda’s current work focuses on an anonymous digital platform to collect experiences of racism to catalyze action and intervention within the healthcare workplace and an environmental and economic place-based intervention to address structural racism as a cause for poor health.
Chalanda is passionate about psychology, health equity, and understanding health behaviors to optimize medical care and practice environments. Before joining the team, she worked with the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit. In that role, she managed a portfolio of health system-based projects that utilized behavioral economics to improve patient outcomes and medical decision-making. Prior to that, she worked with the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center on research studies with patients with breast cancer and BRCA 1/2 mutations involving translational genomics, risk communication, and health disparities.
Chalanda received her master’s degree in public health from the University of Pennsylvania and earned dual bachelor’s degrees in biology and psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University.