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Christina Bethell Promoting the Early & Healthy
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Lifelong Health of Children
Christina works to promote data driven and relationship
and healing centered approaches to establish policies and
practices that advance positive health outcomes for
children, families and communities.
This includes research to develop the Cycle of
Engagement model and tools, which engage families to
improve well child care services and shared care planning
for children with special health care needs (CSHCN).
Dr Bethell is an avid student of human potential for
flourishing amid adversity and is dedicated to the
implementation of the collaboratively developed Prioritizing
Possibilities, a collaboratively developed national agenda to
address childhood trauma and promote a new science of
thriving in research, advocacy, teaching and practice.
She writes poetry, dances and believes that attuned
About Christina connection with ourselves, life and others is the source of
our creativity and joy.
Dr. Bethell is a Professor at Johns Hopkins See her Well Visit Planner in the resources below.
University in the Bloomberg School of Public
Health, where she serves as the founding .
director of the Child and Adolescent Health
Measurement Initiative and the National
Maternal and Child Health Data Resource
Initiative. Since 1996, Dr. Bethell has shaped the
conversation and developed methods and
frameworks to enable the first-ever and
ongoing availability of national, state, local,
health system and clinical level family-centered wwwcahmi.org
data to promote the early and lifelong health of
children, families and communities.
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