Jan Malvin, PhD

Project Director, TPP Statewide Evaluation, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies

Email: jan.malvin@ucsf.edu

Biosketch:

Dr. Jan Malvin serves as Project Director at the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco.  Dr. Malvin is a research psychologist with doctoral training in qualitative and quantitative evaluation methodology and more than twenty years of experience evaluating social programs.  Much of her professional work has related to the prevention of adolescent risk behavior.  She has evaluated school-based programs designed to prevent alcohol, tobacco and other drug abuse; HIV and STDs; and teen pregnancy.  For six years at the University of California at Berkeley, she directed the California Department of Social Services’ statewide evaluation of Cal-Learn, a large, complex, welfare reform demonstration project to keep teenage parents in school.  Jan holds a B.A. in Developmental Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from Northwestern University.

Areas of Interest:

• Adolescent health risk and protective factors
• Reproductive health education and services
• School-based and community interventions
• Evaluation research methods

Publications on PubMed


Updated January 2009