Dallas Swendeman, PhD, MPH

Dallas Swendeman is an applied social and behavioral scientist specializing in multi-level interventions that combine prevention, self-management, and digital technologies. With a background in psychological and medical anthropology, sociology, organizational studies, epidemiology, and community health sciences, Dr. Swendeman has over 30 years of experience developing, testing and scaling evidence-based behavioral interventions. His work has focused on HIV prevention and treatment, substance use disorder (SUD), and self-management, particularly using mobile health (mHealth) tools like text messaging, interactive voice response, smartphone apps, and most recently, AI chatbots. He has explored context-sensing technologies and mixed-methods research with adolescents, parents, and community health workers, supporting HIV/STD and SUD prevention, campus-based sexual violence prevention and response, and pre- and post-natal care. His research is conducted in partnership with community-based organizations in the U.S., India, Cambodia, and South Africa.