Donald H. Baucom, (born 22 July 1949) is a clinical psychology faculty member at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Baucom lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina where he is the Richard Lee Simpson Distinguished Professor of Psychology at UNC.

[4] For over thirty years, Donald H. Baucom has focused his research on the dynamics of intimate relationships and how various factors contribute to distress, as well as joy, in couples.

As a strong proponent of the scientist-practitioner model he is committed to the development of empirically based effective interventions for partners in intimate relationships.

Currently, Baucom is working on a large-scale treatment study funded by the National Cancer Institute called CanThrive.