Ethan J. Evans

HELLO

Background

I serve as assistant professor with the Division of Social Work at California State University, Sacramento. This is the same department where I earned a Master's of Social Work in 2002. In the coming semester, I will teaching SWRK 151, Health Services and Systems and SWRK 261, graduate-level Grant Writing and Fund Development.

I continue to research aspects of healthcare systems, delivery organizations, and policy reform as a research affiliate with the UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research.
 
Prior to returning to graduate studies, I served as executive director to the Sacramento Housing Alliance, where we led a campaign to ensure that affordable housing is an integrated part of new communities. Then, I studied international housing and homeless policy as an Alexander von Humboldt German Chancellor Fellow.

Areas of Interest

Organization Studies; Universal Basic Income Programs, Health Disparities, Policy and Systems Reform; Social Welfare and the Welfare State

Education

PhD, Sociology. University of California, Davis. August 2016
MA, Social Work. California State University. Sacramento. June 2002
BA, Sociology & Political Science (summa cum laude). Kent State University. December 1997

RESEARCH

I study health and health care policy and organizations, exploring structural inequality and 
processes transforming American systems of social welfare and their governance.

Disparities Research
 

FINDINGS

Generation status of immigrant children entrenches racial/ethnic health disparities, especially in terms of their access to services.

Family Structure
& Health

FINDINGS

Instability in the structure of the family experienced during childhood impacts whether or not adults go to the doctor when sick.

Dissertation
Project

FINDINGS

The ACA represents a transformation in welfare state governance that will impact health outcomes and access for decades.

Future work

 OVERVIEW

Extend institutional analysis to explore impacts on patient health.

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles 
Evans, Ethan J., Reed, S., Caler, K., & Nam, K. (2021) Social Work Students’ Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Themes of Resilience. Journal of Social Work Education, DOI: 10.1080/10437797.2021.1957740.
 
Melnikow, J., Evans, Ethan J., Xing, G., et. al. (2020). New Patient Access to Primary Care for California Medicaid Enrollees: A Simulated Patient Call Study. Annals of Family Medicine. 18(3):210-17.
 
Moulin, A. K., Evans, Ethan J., Xing, G., & Melnikow, J. (2018). Substance Use, Homelessness, Mental Illness and Medicaid coverage: A set-up for High Emergency Department Utilization. Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 19(6), 902-906.
 
Evans, Ethan, B. McCarthy, C. Benoit, and M. Jansson. (2018) "Early Trouble, Long-term Consequences: Does Family Instability Keep People from Doctors?" Social Science Quarterly. 99(2):599-615. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.12448.
 
Evans, Ethan and Caren Arbeit. (2017). “What’s the difference? Health Insurance Coverage and Care Service Access: Disparities and Varied Barriers for Immigrant Children in the U.S.” International Migration. 55(5):8-30.
 
Editor Reviewed Column 
(2023). Universal Basic Income: A Synopsis for Social Work. Health & Social Work. (48)1:7–10.
 
(2022). U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development–Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing Program: Bring All Homeless Veterans Home. Health & Social Work. 47(3):161-164.
 
(2021). Boosting Health through the Tax Code: 2021 Tax Credit Reforms. Health & Social Work. (46)4:246–249.
 
Evans, E.J., Noureddine, N., Curry, S., & Nam, K. (2021). COVID-19 Impacts on Social Work and Nursing Now and into the Future: National Administration Plans, Health & Social Work. (46)3:152–157.
 
(2021). Social Workers and the National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness, Health & Social Work 46(2):89-91.
 
(2020). Post-Election: Where do we stand on health care? Health & Social Work. 45(4). Full File
 
Reed, S., Evans, Ethan J., Hooyman, N. (2020). "Social Work: Leading the Move Upstream to Improve the Nation’s Health." Health & Social Work. 45(2), 77–79.
 
(2019). “Toward a Socially Oriented Model of Health: Institutionalize Help for Patients to Overcome Particular Social Difficulties.” Health & Social Work. 44(3), 145-148.
 
(2019). “Health Policy in 2019: Hot Topics and a Call for Social Workers to Pursue Elected Office.” Health & Social Work. 44(2), 72-73.
 
(2019). “The No-Wrong-Door Approach: Antidote to Boundaries within the American Welfare State.” Health & Social Work. 44(1), 8-12.
 
(2018). “Get Out the Vote: Social Work and the Midterm Elections.” Health & Social Work. 43(3), 145-146.
 
(2018). “Happy Birthday, National Health Line: A Long History and Solid Foundation for the Future.” Health & Social Work. 43(3), 145-146.
 
Other
et. al. 2022. Homelessness in Sacramento: Results from the Point-in-Time Count of Sacramento.
 
2018. Review of Social Work Practice and Social Welfare Policy in the United States: A History by Philip R. Popple. Spring 2018 - Part 4. https://www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/pageId/1355/m/464
 
2017. "Even if Obamacare is Repealed, Institutional Changes Will Persist and Lessons can be Learned." Scholars Strategy Network, Policy Briefs. May.
 
2013. "Unequal Access: Insurance Coverage and Immigrant Generational Status of Diverse Children." Pp. 102-27 in Health Care and Immigration: Understanding the Connections, edited by P. Fernandez-Kelley and A. Portes. New York, NY: Routledge.
 
Hamilton, Erin and Ethan Evans. 2012. "State Health Insurance Policy and Insuring Immigrant Children." Policy Brief: UC Davis Center for Poverty Research. Vol. 1, Number 4.
 
2008. “Yes we do! Blick auf die Sozialleistungen und Wohnungslosenhilfe in den USA.” Wohnungslos. BAG W – Verlag. 4:139-42.

Teaching

“what they need…is a quality of mind that will help them to use information and to develop reason in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in the world and of what may be happening within themselves.”
 
C. Wright Mills
The Sociological Imagination

Instructor of Record

Public Policy, Graduate-level Introduction
"Social Workers understand the history and development of the modern social welfare system, their profession, and the values, goals, and skeletons that shape both."
 
Advanced Policy, Graduate Cohort - Health & Aging
"Leaders in Social Work must critically assess the political economy, past and emerging social currents, and public interest groups that shape strategies and responses to perceived ‘social problems’ in the health and ageing."
 
Grant Writing and Fund Development
"Writing is thinking; thinking is creation. Raising money is at the center of agency social work."
 
Health Services and Systems
"Health policy in the U.S. has little to do with health care. It marks a debate over the role of institutions (the market, government, non-profit sector) and obligations to our fellow citizens, if not all humans."
 
Social Policy in America
"Values are at the root of understanding the history, philosophy and functioning of social welfare policies and programs in the United States."
 
Intermediate Statistics
"Familiarity with statistics allows students to be better-informed, more engaged citizens."
 
Intro to Quantitative Research Methods
"Statistical tools help us understand the information that we encounter in the course of daily life and make us more informed, critical consumers of knowledge."
 
Urban Society
“How we live our lives is shaped by where we live our lives.”
 

WORK EXPERIENCE

Division of Social Work, California State University, Sacramento

Assistant Professor, August 2018 - present

The mission of the Division of Social Work is to prepare individuals aspiring to become Social Work professionals who can both lead and serve the region in the development and delivery of human services which promote the value of humankind and improve the quality of life.

UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research

Research Affiliate, October 2016 - Present

Project: Evaluating Medi-Cal Access to Primary Care in the Greater Sacramento Area: A “Mystery Shopper” Study.
PI: Joy Melnikow, CHPR Director.

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) Germany Chancellor Fellowship

Fellow, 2007 - 2009

Project Title: Homelessness: An International Comparison of Service and Policy.
Local Affiliations: Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Wohnungslosenhilfe, e.V. Bielefeld, Germany; Evangelische Gesellschaft. Stuttgart, Germany.

Sacramento Housing Alliance

Executive Director, 2002-2007

SHA is a regional coalition working to ensure that all people in the Sacramento region have safe, decent, accessible and affordable housing in healthy neighborhoods, supported by equitable public policies and practices.

Accomplishments:
Led successful community campaign to require a percentage of housing in new development be affordable.
Developed and coordinated broad policy principles strategic agenda for 65 member organizations.
Increased operating budget by 300% in five years through expanding grants, appeals and fundraising events.
 

Professional Affiliations

Scholars Strategy Network

MISSION STATEMENT

The Scholars Strategy Network seeks to improve public policy and strengthen democracy by organizing scholars working in America's colleges and universities, and connecting scholars and their research to policymakers, citizens associations, and the media.

Society for the Study of Social Problems

MISSION STATEMENT

SSSP is an interdisciplinary community of scholars, practitioners, advocates, and students interested in the application of critical, scientific, and humanistic perspectives to the study of vital social problems.

National Association of Social Workers

MISSION STATEMENT

NASW works to enhance the professional growth and development of its members, to create and maintain professional standards, and to advance sound social policies.

American Sociological Association

MISSION STATEMENT

ASA is dedicated to advancing sociology as a scientific discipline and profession serving the public good.

GET IN TOUCH

ethanjevans [at] mac [dot] com

Sacramento, CA 95826

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Ethan J. Evans

Phd. University of California, Davis

HELLO

Background

Areas of Interest

Education

RESEARCH

I study health and health care policy and organizations, exploring structural inequality and
processes transforming American systems of social welfare and their governance.

Disparities Research

FINDINGS

Family Structure
& Health

FINDINGS

Dissertation
Project

FINDINGS

Future work

OVERVIEW

Publications

Teaching

“what they need…is a quality of mind that will help them to use information and to develop reason in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in the world and of what may be happening within themselves.”

C. Wright Mills
The Sociological Imagination

Instructor of Record

WORK EXPERIENCE

D ivision of Social Work, California State University, Sacramento

Assistant Professor, August 2018 - present

UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research

Research Affiliate, October 2016 - Present

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) Germany Chancellor Fellowship

Fellow, 2007 - 2009

Sacramento Housing Alliance

Executive Director, 2002-2007

Professional Affiliations

Scholars Strategy Network

MISSION STATEMENT

S ociety for the Study of Social Problems

MISSION STATEMENT

National Association of Social Workers

MISSION STATEMENT

American Sociological Association

MISSION STATEMENT

GET IN TOUCH

Ethan J. Evans

Phd. University of California, Davis

HELLO

Background

Areas of Interest

Education

RESEARCH

I study health and health care policy and organizations, exploring structural inequality and processes transforming American systems of social welfare and their governance.

FINDINGS

FINDINGS

FINDINGS

Future work

OVERVIEW

Publications

Teaching

“what they need…is a quality of mind that will help them to use information and to develop reason in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in the world and of what may be happening within themselves.” C. Wright MillsThe Sociological Imagination

Instructor of Record

WORK EXPERIENCE

Division of Social Work, California State University, Sacramento

Assistant Professor, August 2018 - present

Research Affiliate, October 2016 - Present

Fellow, 2007 - 2009

Executive Director, 2002-2007

Professional Affiliations

MISSION STATEMENT

MISSION STATEMENT

MISSION STATEMENT

MISSION STATEMENT

GET IN TOUCH

I study health and health care policy and organizations, exploring structural inequality and
processes transforming American systems of social welfare and their governance.

“what they need…is a quality of mind that will help them to use information and to develop reason in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in the world and of what may be happening within themselves.”

C. Wright Mills
The Sociological Imagination

D ivision of Social Work, California State University, Sacramento