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Alan J. Hawkins, Ph.D.

Alan J. Hawkins is the Manager of the Utah Marriage Commission and an emeritus professor of Family Life at Brigham University in Provo, Utah, USA. He earned a Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies at The Pennsylvania State University in 1990. Dr. Hawkins’ scholarship and outreach focuses on educational and policy interventions to help couples form and sustain healthy marriages and relationships. He is widely cited for his work that examines the overall effectiveness of marriage and relationship education. In 2003-2004, he was a visiting scholar with the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services), working on the federal healthy marriage and relationships initiative. He was the Research Director of the National Healthy Marriage Resource Center from 2004-2006. He was the Chair of the Utah Marriage Commission from 2008-2010 and 2016-2018. He serves as the Vice-chair of the National Alliance for Relationship and Marriage Education.

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