who we are
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who we are
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.
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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.
![Milagros Garrido, MS, PMP](https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Milagros-Garrido-MS-PMP.png)
Milagros Garrido, MS, PMP
Project Director
Director, Innovation & Research
Healthy Teen Network
![Beth Marshall, MPH, DrPH](https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Beth-Marshall-MPH-DrPH.png)
Beth Marshall, MPH, DrPH
Principal Investigator
Associate Director
Johns Hopkins Center for Adolescent Health
![Charlie Blue Brahm, MA](https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Charlie-Blue-Brahm-MA.png)
Charlie Blue Brahm, MA
Design Researcher
Healthy Teen Network
![Emily (Skywark) Connor, MPH](https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Emily-Rose-Connor-MPH.png)
Emily (Skywark) Connor, MPH
Design Coach
Healthy Teen Network
![Arianna de la Mancha](https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Arianna-Updated.png)
Arianna de la Mancha
Communications Designer
Healthy Teen Network
![Bianca Devoto, MSPH](https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Bianca-Devoto-MSPH.png)
Bianca Devoto, MSPH
Senior Manager, Innovation & Research
Healthy Teen Network
![Gina Desiderio, MA](https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Gina-Desiderio-MA.png)
Gina Desiderio, MA
Director, Communications
Healthy Teen Network
![Kaitlyn LaBonte, LMSW](https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Kaitlyn-LaBonte-LMSW.png)
Kaitlyn LaBonte, LMSW
Project Coordinator
Healthy Teen Network
![Patricia Natalie, MA](https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Patricia-Natalie-MA.png)
Patricia Natalie, MA
Design Researcher
Healthy Teen Network
![Jennifer Patino-Perez, B.S](https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Jennifer-Patino-PerezB.S.png)
Jennifer Patino-Perez, B.S
Project Coordinator
Healthy Teen Network
![Mackenzie Piper, MPH, CHES](https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Mackenzie-Piper-MPH-CHES.png)
Mackenzie Piper, MPH, CHES
Training & Instructional Design Manager
Healthy Teen Network
![Terrinieka Powell, PhD](https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Terrinieka-Powell-PhD.png)
Terrinieka Powell, PhD
Associate Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
![Annie Smith, PhD](https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Annie-Smith-PhD.png)
Annie Smith, PhD
Assistant Scientist
Johns Hopkins Center for Adolescent Health
![Montrell Vass](https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Montrell-Vass.png)
Montrell Vass
Research Assistant
Johns Hopkins Center for Adolescent Health
![Paige Wilson](https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Paige-About-Us-Webpage-Image.png)
Paige Wilson
Communications Specialist
Johns Hopkins Center for Adolescent Health
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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](https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Justine-Ang-Fonte-M.Ed-MPH.png)
Justine Ang Fonte, M.Ed, MPH
Founder of JAF Kalusugan, LLC
![Nicole Bennett, MPH](https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Nicole-Bennett-MPH.png)
Nicole Bennett, MPH
Service Design Lead
Laerdal Medical
![Caricia Catalani](https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Caricia-Catalani-DrPH-MPH.png)
Caricia Catalani
Head of Design
Verily, Google Alphabet
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Jack Duroc-Danner M.A.Ed. CSE LMT CEIM
AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator
![Jennifer Farmer, PhD, CHES](https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Jennifer-Farmer-PhD-CHES-2.png)
Jennifer Farmer, PhD, CHES
Clinical Assistant Professor
University of Houston
![Tracie Gilbert, PhD](https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Tracie-Gilbert-PhD.png)
Tracie Gilbert, PhD
Independent Sexuality Educator
![Mansi Gupta](https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Mansi-Gupta.png)
Mansi Gupta
Founder
Unconform
![Calvin Liang, PhD](https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Calvin-Liang-PhD.png)
Calvin Liang, PhD
Mancosh Postdoctoral Fellow
![Lauren Lapointe, MPH](https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Lauren-Lapointe-MPH.png)
Lauren Lapointe, MPH
Sexual and Reproductive Health Program Manager
Latin American Youth Center
![Isaiah Lawrence](https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Isaiah-Lawrence.png)
Isaiah Lawrence
Trans Health Navigator
STAR TRACK Adolescent Health Program
![Kathryn Macapagal](https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Kathryn-Macapagal.png)
Kathryn Macapagal
Associate Director, THRIVE Center
Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing
![Ryan Mateo Sharnbroich](https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Ryan-Mateo-Sharnbroich-MEd-MPH.png)
Ryan Mateo Sharnbroich
Director of Professional Learning and Sexuality Education
Cardea
![Cody Ragonese, MPH](https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Cody-Ragonese-MPH-1.png)
Cody Ragonese, MPH
Senior Program Officer
Equimundo: Center for Masculinities and Social Justice
![Elise Roy](https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Elise-Roy.png)
Elise Roy
Founder
Elisa Roy, LLC
![Nefertari Sloan](https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Nefertari-Sloan-1.png)
Nefertari Sloan
Sex Educator
Sloan’s Solutions
![Dana Thomas](https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Dana-Thomas.png)
Dana Thomas
Director, Adolescent Health Initiative
University of Michigan Health
![Cody Van Felden](https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Cody-Van-Felden-1.png)
Cody Van Felden
Youth Advocate Mentor
Advocates for Youth
![Ariyanna White](https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Ariyanna-White.png)
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.