Andrew Evans, MPH, (he/him/his) is the Director of Public Health and Disease Prevention at the Dutchess County Department of Behavioral and Community Health. In his role, he has oversight over the communicable disease control division, public health nursing, and some environmental health programs, including the Adolescent Tobacco Use Prevention Program and the Childhood Lead Poisoning Primary Prevention Program. He has also served nearly 33 years as an epidemiologist for the Dutchess County Department of Behavioral and Community Health. Some of his honors include the 2009 Commissioner’s Award Recipient and New York State Public Health Honor Roll for the Collaborative Outbreak Response Team, the 2007 Dutchess County Commissioner’s Award Recipient for Development of Sexually Transmitted Disease Reporting System, and the 2001 Dutchess County Commissioner’s Award Recipient for Arthropod-Borne Disease Program. He has been published in epidemiological and medical journals and presented at the National Sexually Transmitted Disease Conference in 2007. He also served on the Dutchess County LGBTQ Task Force, the Legislative Tick-Borne Disease Task Force in Dutchess County, served two years on the Dutchess County Human Rights Commission and was recently appointed to Governor Cuomo’s New York Tick/Lyme Workgroup. He is a certified Clinical Education Initiative Trainer: LGBT Cultural Sensitivity for Providers. Andrew is currently the President of the Board of Hudson Valley Community Services (formerly known as AIDS-Related Community Services), where he has been a member of the Board for seven years. A lifetime resident of the Hudson Valley, Andrew has earned his Master of Public Health at the State University of New York at Albany.