Position:
Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health
Institutional affiliation:
School of Medicine and Public Health
Website:
http://ralescenter.hopkinschildrens.org
Email:
[email protected]
Sara Johnson, PhD, MPH is Blanket Fort Foundation Professor of Pediatric Population Health and Health Equity Research at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She also serves as Director of the Rales Center for the Integration of Health and Education, which aims to develop and evaluate innovative models of school-based health and healthcare delivery. Her research examines how early life experiences—such as chronic stress and poverty—affect health and behavior across the lifespan and generations. She works to identify strategies that can disrupt these pathways. In addition, she translates her research into practice by designing and evaluating school-based interventions that promote student health and academic success.Â