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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 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 and healing-centered 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 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

Randa Dean, MPH

Randa Dean, MPH

Associate Director, Innovation & Research
Healthy Teen Network

Communications Designer
Healthy Teen Network

Director, Communications
Healthy Teen Network

Manager, Innovation & Research
Healthy Teen Network

Design Researcher
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

Communications Designer
Healthy Teen Network

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.

Amber Barcel, MSW

Director of Public Policy Advocates for Youth

Project Director, Implementation Lead MyHealthEd, Inc.

Design Thinking Lead Innovate Carolina

Associate Professor
Department of Health Behavior, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health

Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Founder and Executive Director
EducateUS

Lead Designer
MF Design Collaborative

Director of Design
Braver Collective

Lauren Lapointe MPH

Lauren Lapointe

Isaiah Lawrence

Isaiah Lawrence

Assistant Teaching Professor
University of Washington School of Medicine and School of Public Health

Founder and CEO
Q Card Project LLC

Education Services Manager

Sex Educator
Sloan’s Solutions, LLC

Professional Development Coordinator
Planned Parenthood Southeastern PA

Assistant Clinical Training Director
Atlanta Therapeutic Collective LLC

Owner
Roll for Wellness

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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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