Evan Lynn Eschliman

Evan L. Eschliman, PhD, MS is an Assistant Research Professor at the Duke University School of Nursing. Dr. Eschliman’s research uses multiple methods to study stigma, its negative health effects, how stigma is produced and reproduced by structures and systems, and how to intervene against stigma in culturally and structurally responsive ways. Their current projects focus primarily on stigma toward substance use, and they also work across health conditions and statuses including mental health, HIV, and incarceration. Prior to coming to Duke, Dr. Eschliman completed their postdoctoral fellowship in substance use epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, their PhD in social and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and their MS in sociomedical sciences at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.