Professor, Center Director
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore, Maryland
Dr. Christina Bethell is a professor at Johns Hopkins University in the Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she advances an integrated science of thriving. She promotes a positive construct of health and health care focused on cultivating safe and nurturing relationships, flourishing, positive childhood experiences and child, family and community resilience. With roots in systems change, financing reform and social epidemiology, she is the founding director (1996) of the national Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI); led the design, validation and widespread use of numerous family centered metrics; and leads the National Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health (www.childhealthdata.org).
Her Cycle of Engagement (COE) model and evidence-based Well Visit Planner technology engages families, care teams and communities as partners in promoting early childhood development. She led the creation of the Prioritizing Possibilities national agenda to prevent and mitigate impacts of childhood trauma and has been pivotal in shifting the national and international dialogue from trauma and toxic stress to the promotion of relational health. Dr. Bethell earned an MBA; an MPH from the University of California, Berkeley; and a PhD in public policy from the University of Chicago. She teaches courses on mitigating adversity and promoting child wellbeing, mindfulness based stress reduction and other healing and systems change methods. She is an avid student of human potential for flourishing amid adversity.
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Sunday, April 10, 2022
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
