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Healthy Teen Network and Johns Hopkins Center for Adolescent Health have partnered to create Thrivology.

Together, we make a team with extensive experience conducting and translating research, implementing and evaluating evidence-based approaches, providing capacity-building assistance, driving innovation, and working with diverse professionals, communities, and youth populations.

Collaboration is key in everything we do. That’s why we work alongside our Research Alliance to collectively brainstorm, ideate, create, and disseminate resources that you can use in the real world.

The Research Alliance is made up of adolescent health researchers, design researchers, youth-supporting professionals and practitioners, and young people. Research Alliance members bring a wealth of knowledge from their experiences and are an essential part of how Thrivology creates practical resources.

Thrivology is a research-to-practice center, funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Population Affairs (OPA), that works to expand the delivery of trauma-informed, healing-centered, and inclusive practices in adolescent sexual and reproductive health programming and care.

Healthy Teen Network and Johns Hopkins Center for Adolescent Health have joined together to create Thrivology. Together, we make a team with extensive experience conducting and translating research, implementing and evaluating evidence-based approaches, providing capacity-building assistance, driving innovation, and working with diverse professionals, communities, and youth populations.

Project Director

Director, Innovation & Research
Healthy Teen Network

Principal Investigator

Associate Director
Johns Hopkins Center for Adolescent Health

Design Researcher
Healthy Teen Network

Emily (Skywark) Connor, MPH

Design Coach
Healthy Teen Network

Communications Designer
Healthy Teen Network

Senior Manager, Innovation & Research
Healthy Teen Network

Director, Communications
Healthy Teen Network

Project Coordinator
Healthy Teen Network

Design Researcher
Healthy Teen Network

Jennifer Patino-Perez, B.S

Project Coordinator
Healthy Teen Network

Training & Instructional Design Manager
Healthy Teen Network

Associate Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Assistant Scientist
Johns Hopkins Center for Adolescent Health

Creative Direction and Product Design Manager
Healthy Teen Network

Montrell Vass

Research Assistant
Johns Hopkins Center for Adolescent Health

Paige Wilson

Communications Specialist
Johns Hopkins Center for Adolescent Health

Collaboration is key in everything we do. The Research Alliance is made up of adolescent health researchers, design researchers, youth-supporting professionals and practitioners, and young people. Research Alliance members bring a wealth of knowledge from their experiences and are an essential part of how Thrivology creates practical resources.

Justine Ang Fonte, M.Ed, MPH

Founder of JAF Kalusugan, LLC

Nicole Bennett, MPH

Service Design Lead
Laerdal Medical

Head of Design
Verily, Google Alphabet

AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator

Jennifer Farmer, PhD, CHES

Clinical Assistant Professor
University of Houston

Independent Sexuality Educator

Founder
Unconform

Calvin Liang, PhD

Mancosh Postdoctoral Fellow

Sexual and Reproductive Health Program Manager
Latin American Youth Center

Trans Health Navigator
STAR TRACK Adolescent Health Program

Associate Director, THRIVE Center
Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing

Ryan Mateo Sharnbroich

Director of Professional Learning and Sexuality Education
Cardea

Senior Program Officer
Equimundo: Center for Masculinities and Social Justice

Elise Roy

Founder
Elisa Roy, LLC

Nefertari Sloan

Sex Educator
Sloan’s Solutions

Director, Adolescent Health Initiative
University of Michigan Health

Cody Van Felden

Youth Advocate Mentor
Advocates for Youth

Ariyanna White

Assistant Clinical Training Director
Atlanta Therapeutic Collective, LLC

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This project is supported by the Office of Population Affairs (OPA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award (1 PHEPA000006-01) totaling $1,063,776.35 with 100 percent funded by OPA/OASH/HHS. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by OPA/OASH/HHS, or the U.S. Government. For more information, please visit opa.hhs.gov.

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