Dr. Gregory Phillips II, PhD, MS (he/him) is a tenured Associate Professor in the Departments of Medical Social Sciences and Preventive Medicine; Director of the Evaluation, Data Integration, and Technical Assistance (EDIT) Program; Co-Director of the Community Health Research and Evaluation Concentration within the MPH Program; and Director of the MS in Epidemiology Degree Program at Northwestern University. He is an infectious diseases epidemiologist whose career spans more than 15 years of exploring the complex factors that disproportionately impact the health of minoritized individuals, particularly sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals. Dr. Phillips has served as PI or MPI on multiple NIH grants focused on SGM, including an R01 focused on improving measurement of sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity and two secondary data analysis R01s to explore disparities in alcohol use and HIV risk between sexual minority and majority youth within the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS). He has a long history of collaborating on research and evaluation projects with community-based organizations whose work centers the health and wellbeing of multiply minoritized populations, including Brave Space Alliance and TaskForce Prevention & Community Services. He is also a leader in the field of program evaluation: he led the development of the LGBTQ+ Evaluation framework, serves on the Evaluation Policy Task Force within the American Evaluation Association (AEA), is Chair of the Social Network Analysis Topical Interest Group (TIG) within AEA, and is Co-Editor of the Ethics, Values, and Culture Section of the American Journal of Evaluation.