Emily Cowley Evans, PhD, RN, WHNP-BC

Emily is an Assistant Professor at the UVA School of Nursing. Since earning a PhD in nursing from UVA in 2014 she’s taught a series of graduate and undergraduate nursing courses. A board-certified nurse practitioner and RN specializing in women’s health, she's worked as a nurse practitioner and registered nurse in a variety of environments—OB/GYN, women’s health, maternal child health, and labor and delivery—and locales, including Beth Israel Deaconess in Boston, Jefferson Health System in Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania, Lankenau Hospital, and Pennsylvania Hospital.

Emily research has centered on interventions for women who experience antepartum depression, and how, through their interactions, nurses can provide support and be a resource for them. She’s published journal articles on nursing interactions that treat antepartum depression (the subject of her doctoral dissertation), mechanisms that support rural women through pregnancy, the history of giving Mormon pioneers who gave birth on the Oregon Trail in the mid-1800s, as well as maternal mortality in global contexts. Her latest publication investigated the practice changes experienced during COVID by midwifery practice leaders across the country.

Emily is a member of Sigma Theta Tau Internation, the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses, the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health and the American Association for the History of Nursing. In her free time she volunteers in the public school system and runs the Children’s Organization for her local church congregation.