Position:
Assistant Scientist/Associate Director
Institutional affiliation:
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Adolescent Health
Website:
www.jhsph.edu/adolescenthealth
Email:
[email protected]
Dr. Marshall is an Associate Practice Professor in the Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health and serves as the Associate Director for the Center for Adolescent Health. Her undergraduate training is in health education, and she was a certified K-12 educator in the state of Maryland who taught in Baltimore City Public Schools. Her Masters and Doctoral training focused on child health and development particularly how that development is shaped by schools. She has over two decades of experience conducting research and evaluation projects focused on schools and health in urban school settings. Through her work with the local, state, and national partners, she focuses on the adaptation of programming for urban youth including recess programs, screening programs, and sexual health education, as well as innovative collaborations between health and education sectors to improve child and adolescent health and wellbeing. Dr. Marshall teaches three courses at the Bloomberg School of Public Health including Schools and Health which focuses on research and implementation around the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child framework, Asset Based Approaches to Vulnerable Youth which focuses on strengths based research, policy, and practice addressing the needs of the most vulnerable young people, and Youth Voice in Public Health, which highlights the need to partner with young people in public health research and policy and focuses on the implications for practice.Â