Clare R. Evans is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oregon, where she serves as Core Faculty for the UO Center for Global Health and on the executive leadership teams for the UO programs in Global Health and Disability Studies. A social epidemiologist, medical sociologist, and quantitative methodologist, her research focuses on the intersectional social determinants of population health inequalities. She received her ScD in Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2015 and an MPH in Sociomedical Sciences at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in 2011.

In 2015, Dr. Evans proposed using hierarchical multilevel models to evaluate intersectional health inequalities—an approach that is now known as intersectional MAIHDA (multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy). Intersectional MAIHDA has been welcomed as the new ‘gold standard’ for investigating inequalities in social epidemiology and is rapidly being adopted across the social sciences. Recently, she has developed adaptations such as Eco-Intersectional Multilevel (EIM) modeling for investigation of environmental and spatial environmental health injustices.