Brian Sims, PhD, MA
Director, Center for Metrics and Evaluation
Associate Professor, Department of Health Promotion
Dr. Sims has nearly 20 years of faculty and administrative experience in data, research and evaluation. He has led several large-scale program evaluations involving funders across public health and education and has extensive experience working with national leadership development programs.
Before coming to UNMC, he managed a diverse program evaluation portfolio at Jomoworks, an education management consulting firm specializing in University/ K-12 partnership development, and served as faculty and department chair across the nation’s two largest public Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Since joining UNMC, Dr. Sims has collaborated with the COPH Office of Public Health Practice on the Centers for Disease Control funded Public Health Infrastructure Grant and Data Modernization Initiatives, and is an affiliate faculty member in the Center for Reducing Health Disparities.
- 2006 PhD, Education & Psychology, University of Michigan
- 2003 MA, Social Psychology, University of Michigan
- 2001 BA, Psychology (Suma Cum Laude), Florida A&M University
- Human Justice and Community Violence Intervention
- Black Paternal Health
- Data, Research and Evaluation
- Reparative Agriculture Systems
- School Mental Health
- Leadership and Workforce Development
- Zollicoffer, A., Strauss, G., Luther, L., Schiffman, J., Sims, B.C, Kambui, H., & Li, H. (2024). The relationship between perceived family support and subclinical positive symptoms of psychosis among Black college students. Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 1– 6.
- Sims, B.C. (2023). Grounding Leadership in Community Wisdom. Stanford Social Innovation Review.
- Sills, S.J., Henry, L.D., Sims, B.C. (2023). Workforce Communities of Inquiry: Experiences of Black Workers; Jobseekers in the Triad. Research, Policy, and Impact Center at the National Institute of Minority Economic Development.
- Kheru, J1. (2022). The resiliency dilemma. In K. E. Canada & C. M. Peters (Eds.), Building health & resilience in communities at risk: Negotiating the challenge and finding reward in community-based research. University of Cincinnati Press.
- Sims, B.C. (2022). Community Responses on the Blueprint to End Gun Violence: Data, Findings, and Recommendations
- Kheru, J. (2020). Black Psychology for Students: Lessons in the African Mind. Great River Learning. ISBN #: 9781644965030
- Sims, B.C. (2013). Non-Traditional Addictions: Technology & Media. In S.L. Lusk (Ed.) Counseling the Addicted Family: Implications for Practitioners. Aspen. ISBN: 978-0-9721642-9-0
- Corneille, M., Fife, J.E., Belgrave, F., Sims, B.C. (2012). Ethnic identity, masculinity, and healthy sexual relationships among African American men. Psychology of Men and Masculinity, 13(4), 393- 399.
- American Evaluation Association