who we are

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







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



Milagros Garrido, MS, PMP
Director, Innovation & Research
Healthy Teen Network
Principal Investigator



Beth Marshall, MPH, DrPH
Associate Director
Johns Hopkins Center for Adolescent Health
Project Director



Milagros Garrido, MS, PMP
Director, Innovation & Research
Healthy Teen Network
Principal Investigator



Beth Marshall, MPH, DrPH
Associate Director
Johns Hopkins Center for Adolescent Health


Charlie Blue Brahm, MA
Design Researcher
Healthy Teen Network


Mariah Cowsert
Communications Designer
Healthy Teen Network


Arianna de la Mancha
Communications Designer
Healthy Teen Network


Gina Desiderio, MA
Director, Communications
Healthy Teen Network


Kaitlyn LaBonte, LMSW
Project Coordinator
Healthy Teen Network


Patricia Natalie, MA
Design Researcher
Healthy Teen Network


Terrinieka Powell, PhD
Associate Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health


Annie Smith, PhD
Assistant Scientist
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.Â


Nicole Bennett, MPH
Service Design Lead
Laerdal Medical


Kaleigh Cornelison, LMSW, LCSW
Project Coordinator II
ETR


Jennifer Farmer, PhD, CHES
Clinical Assistant Professor
University of Houston


Monica Faulkner, PhD, LMSW
Director
Texas Institute for Child and Family Wellbeing


Nadine Finigan-Carr, PhD
Executive Director, UMB Center for Violence Prevention
University of Maryland, Baltimore


Katelyn Flaherty Doré, MPH
Senior Consultant
JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc.Â


Tracie Gilbert, PhD
Independent Sexuality Educator


Laura Graham Holmes, PhD
Assistant Professor, Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College
City University of New York


Deborah S. Levine, MSW, MAT
Chief Program Officer
CenterLink


Arik V. Marcell, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Public Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health


Ryan Mateo Sharnbroich, MEd, MPH
Director of Professional Learning and Sexuality Education
Cardea


Cody Ragonese, MPH
Senior Program Officer
Equimundo: Center for Masculinities and Social Justice


Lori A. Rolleri Insignares, MSW, MPH
President
Lori Rolleri Consulting, Inc.


Riley Steiner, MPH, PhD
Senior Director, Research and Evaluation
Power to Decide


Dana Thomas
Director, Adolescent Health Initiative
University of Michigan Health


Jason Valdez, MHCID
Private Contractor
Portfolio


Kim Westheimer, MA
Director of Research, Policy, and Practice
Gender Spectrum
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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.