Christina D. Bethell

Christina D. Bethell, PhD, MBA, MPH Dr. Bethell is a Professor at Johns Hopkins University in the Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she advances a new integrated Science of Thriving to promote early and lifelong health of children, youth, families and communities. 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), the National Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health and the We Are the Medicine consortium. Together, this work operates to (1)curate “top down” knowledge and data to reveal patterns in population health, systems performance and possibilities for well-being; (2) create “bottom up” approaches to engage families and communities in fostering the social and emotional roots of well-being and self-led healing ; (3) collect data and track progress; and (4) foster the “inside out”, relationship-centeredstrategies for successful transformational partnerships. She led the design of a widely endorsed national agenda to address childhood trauma and promote healing and flourishing. Christina earned an MBA an MPH from the University of California, Berkeley and PhD in public policy from the University of Chicago. She teaches Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Healing Through Revealing methods and is an avid student of transparent communication, presence and human potential for flourishing amid adversity. She writes poetry, dances and believes that connection with ourselves, life and others is the source of our creativity and joy.