Tyler B. Evans, MD, MS, MPH, AAHIVS, DTM&H, FIDSA is a physician, academic, humanitarian, and author whose life’s work centers on advancing health equity for the world’s most vulnerable populations. He currently serves as CEO and Co-Founder of the Wellness Equity Alliance (WEA), a national network committed to transforming public health systems through community-based, equity-driven models.

Dr. Evans brings decades of clinical, executive, and global health leadership experience. He previously served as CEO/CMO of Curative Medical Associates, where he helped oversee the administration of more than 2 million COVID-19 vaccine doses across 10 states with a strong emphasis on equity. Prior to that, he was Deputy Public Health Officer and Chief of the COVID-19 Vaccination Branch for Marin County, California, and was tapped to serve as the first Chief Medical Officer for New York City’s Office of Emergency Management during the initial COVID-19 surge in 2020.

His earlier roles include leadership of infectious disease divisions and community health initiatives focused on homelessness, addiction, and migrant health. He has served as a physician with Médecins Sans Frontières, Partners in Health, and the Indian Health Service, and founded one of the country’s first integrated primary care and mental health programs for refugees and asylum seekers in New York City. He also co-founded the NYC Refugee and Asylee Health Coalition (NYCRAHC).

Dr. Evans’ clinical expertise spans infectious disease, tropical medicine, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, tuberculosis, and primary care. His academic work explores intersections between health equity and public health, with research interests in transgender health, homeless medicine, and the social determinants of health. He holds faculty appointments at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California and the University of California, San Francisco.

On August 5, 2025, Dr. Evans will release his debut book, Poverty, Pandemics, and Politics: A Physician’s Reckoning with Injustice in Global Health—a powerful exploration of systemic inequity, moral courage, and the future of public health from the frontlines of crisis response.

He resides in the Bay Area, California, and is actively leading the expansion of Wellness Equity Alliance programs across California and New Mexico, with new initiatives underway in Idaho. He continues to serve both domestic and international efforts, including mental health programs for survivors of gender-based violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. His work remains grounded in designing and scaling community-based models that deliver integrated, trauma-informed care to historically marginalized populations.