Rachel H. Stevens, EdD, RN

Clinical Professor and Senior Advisor to the Director
The North Carolina Institute for Public Health
Gillings School of Global Public Health
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Campus Box 8165
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8165
919-966-1069; Fax 919-966-0478
rachel_stevens@unc.edu

Rachel H. Stevens earned a bachelor's degree in Nursing and a master's degree in Nursing Administration from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a doctorate in Education from North Carolina State University. Dr. Stevens has over thirty years of experience and leadership in public health practice at the state and local level. She has served as Assistant Chief, Public Health Nurses for the State of North Carolina, and is currently a member of a local board of health and Past President of the Association of North Carolina Local Boards of Health. At the UNC School of Public Health she has served as Chair of the Public Health Nursing Program, Chair of the Interdisciplinary Curriculum in Practice and Leadership, and Director of the Center for Public Health Practice. Most recently she has served as Deputy Director of The North Carolina Institute for Public Health, where she managed public health continuing and outreach education, facilitated the School's technical assistance and consultation to public health practitioners, and directed public health research projects. Dr. Stevens consults extensively throughout the county and is co-investigator on a project that looks at improved partnering through an intensive home visiting project as part of a local public health department.

Dr. Stevens' primary areas of interest include public health practice and public health nursing, public health leadership, public health workforce development and training, and health care access and management.