Biography

Dr. Stacey Bevan’s scholarship focuses on the intersection of disability, immigration, and inequity with implications for child health providers. Bevan’s research examines how families navigate medical and educational systems with concerns for their child’s developmental or mental health. She is broadly interested in evidence for policy improvements that address structural disparities in child health. Dr. Bevan’s approach to scholarship is interdisciplinary, and she has collaborated with like-minded scholars in sociology, education policy, and public health.

Dr. Bevan’s clinical practice across the continuum of care compels her to understand upstream strategies to prevent health-harming exposures, identify early mental health symptoms in children, and connect families to community treatment to avoid intensive interventions like hospitalizations. As an educator, she regularly teaches pediatric mental health, nursing ethics, global issues, and research methods. Her training and projects have been funded by The National Institute of Mental Health, the Hillman Scholars of Nursing Innovation, the US Department of Education, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, and the Maternal and Child Health Bureau.