Robin Evans-agnew

Associate Professor, University of Washington Tacoma

Dr. Evans-Agnew is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington Tacoma Nursing and Healthcare Leadership program (2012-). His research and scholarship are concerned with critical and emancipatory approaches to solving the challenges of asthma inequities, environmental justice, and 21st Century School Nursing practice. He has an ongoing research commitment with a six-year Community Based Participatory Research study led by Mexican American mothers of children with asthma. He has published papers in national and international settings including Health Promotion Practice, the Journal of School Nursing, and Journal of Asthma. In 2019 he was awarded the Sarah Mazelis Paper of the Year Award from the Journal of Health Promotion practice for his analysis of the discourses of asthma management disparities in African American Adolescents with asthma and asthma policymakers in Washington State. He completed his bachelors of science in nursing at Johns Hopkins University in 1994 and completed his PhD dissertation research on asthma management disparities in 2011 at the University of Washington.