Marian S. Evans, EdD 

Marian S. Evans is the Program Coordinator for the Minority Initiative Sub-Recipient Grant Office and the interim Director of the Minority Research Center on Tobacco and Addictions both at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.    She holds a Master of Public Health Degree from Tulane University in New Orleans, LA and a Doctorate in Public Health from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, AR.  She has over 22 years in community based program planning and implementation, capacity building, program evaluation and policy development.  Dr. Evans’s research interest are policy and community public health development in minority and rural communities.