Steven Chapman became chief technical officer in 2008 and leads PSI's efforts to improve the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and equity of its interventions. Steven manages PSI's Technical Services team which consists of approximately 50 experts in five departments: Malaria and Child Survival; HIV, Tuberculosis and Reproductive Health; Research & Metrics; Social Marketing; and Capacity Building. He also heads PSI's strategic initiative on innovation, which aims to increase the proportion of DALYs averted by PSI from new interventions, and consists of an innovation fund, cross departmental innovation teams, capacity building efforts and pilot projects.
From 2002 to 2008, Steven led PSI's Research & Metrics department and its initiative to increase evidence-based decision making across the organization. This effort resulted in PSI interventions today increasingly using standard methods and tools to segment populations, plan interventions, and monitor and evaluate behavioral determinants and outcomes and health impact. He is currently co-authoring a book on social marketing research and evaluation.
Steven was a Peace Corps volunteer in Togo. He first joined PSI in 1989 as special projects officer and in 1996 became the founding director of PSI-Europe. From 1997 to 1999, he was director of asia programmes for Marie Stopes International. From 2000 to 2002, he worked as a senior scientist for the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research in the Health Systems Department. Steven holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Washington, a J.D from George Washington University and a PhD in Population Dynamics from Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health. Steven speaks English, French and Dutch.