Chief, Science Communication and Digital Outreach Branch

Office of Communications and Health Education

NIDCR

Dr. Catherine Evans is chief of the Science Communication and Digital Outreach Branch in NIDCR’s Office of Communications and Health Education (OCHE). In this role, she leads NIDCR’s web, social media, and media relations efforts to communicate NIDCR science to the public. Prior to her appointment as branch chief, she held the position of science writer in OCHE from 2017 to 2023, where she translated NIDCR research for the lay public.

Prior to joining NIDCR, she worked as a science writer with a strategic communications firm serving NIH clients. Before that, she was a National Cancer Institute Health Communications Fellow for The Cancer Genome Atlas program, and she served as a postbac studying pain genetics in the lab of Dr. Mitchell Max at NIDCR. She holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Michigan, an M.A in science writing from Johns Hopkins University, and a B.A. in psychology from the University of Virginia.