Jay Evans

Jay Evans is currently a Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and an Associate Researcher at the University of Copenhagen. Jay Evans is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Interactive Health Ltd (IHL). He has played an important role in the design and development of Well@Being, IHL's new mental health and wellbeing smart app that supports the NHS. As part of his global work at IHL and the University of Edinburgh , Jay is Chief Investigator for several RCUK funded studies that seek to democratise  the dissemination of digital health tools aimed at improving mental health and well-being. His experience is anchored in design for scale and impact. In South Asia and Latin America, Jay and his team team deployed community-based mHealth programmes at scale together with governments. He has several publications in the area of Design and Innovation.