Evelyn Kappeler is the Acting Director of the Office of Adolescent Health (OAH) in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). As a senior manager, she is responsible for the administration as well as policy and program development of OAH. Ms. Kappeler has more than twenty years of experience in public health as a senior policy analyst in the Office of Population Affairs (OPA). Most recently, Ms. Kappeler was the Acting Director of OPA, with responsibility for overseeing the national Family Planning Program authorized under Title X of the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) and the Adolescent Family Life (AFL) program authorized under Title XX of the PHSA. Ms. Kappeler joined the Federal Government as a policy research associate in the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Before coming to HHS, Ms. Kappeler worked as a legislative analyst in the Washington, D.C. Office of the Governor of the State of Illinois.