Abraham Wandersman, PhD, is the president and CEO of the Wandersman Center and is a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. Dr. Wandersman performs research and program evaluation on interagency collaboration and on citizen participation in community organizations and coalitions. He is a co-editor of three books on empowerment evaluation and a co-author of several Getting To Outcomes accountability publications (i.e., instructional manuals for planning, implementation, and evaluation to achieve results). Other notable professional accomplishments include:

• Collaborated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop the Interactive Systems Framework for Dissemination and Implementation,  which was featured as the subject of two special issues of peer-reviewed journals in 2008 and 2012.
• Received the Myrdal Award for Evaluation Practice from the American Evaluation Association in 1998.
• Elected president of the Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA) in 2000.
• Presented with the Distinguished Theory and Research Contributions Award by SCRA in 2005.
• Received the American Evaluation Association’s Outstanding Publication Award for his Getting To Outcomes publication in 2008.
• Designated as a visiting scholar by the CDC's Injury Center in 2013.
• Led an evaluation of the Spreading Community Accelerators for Learning and Evaluation (SCALE) initiative, a healthy community coalition grant funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), in 2017, and also won the 2017 Outstanding Evaluation Award from the American Evaluation Association in recognition of this formative evaluation work.
• Received the Doug Kirby Researcher of the Year Award from the Healthy Teen Network in 2017.