Departmental Affiliations
Center & Institute Affiliations
Beth Marshall, DrPH ’11, MPH ’03, works with community partners to evaluate and develop school based programs to improve students’ health, academic achievement and social skills.
Contact Info
Research Interests
High school Programs; School Health; adolescent health; healthy schools; health education; sexual health education; Middle School programs; youth development; academic achievement; youth voices
Experiences & Accomplishments
Dr. Marshall is the Associate Director of the Center for Adolescent Health and an Associate Practice Professor in the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health. Her undergraduate training is in health education and she was a certified K-12 educator in the state of Maryland. Her Masters and Doctoral training (both at the Bloomberg School of Public Health) focused on child health and development particularly how that development is shaped by schools. She has over two decades of experience collaboratively conducting research and evaluation projects focused on schools and health.
Her particular expertise in evaluating school based programs aimed at improving the academic achievement, social skills, and health of students as well as the practical design of surveys and data collection procedures developed in collaboration with community partners. Through collaborations at Hopkins including the Rales Center for the Integration of Health and Education and the Johns Hopkins Center for School Health she focuses on the adaptation of programming young people including recess programs, screening programs, and sexual health education. This adaptation work is driven and supported by the Centers for Disease Control's Prevention Research Program which supports the Center for Adolescent Health at Hopkins where her work focuses on centering young people's voices in all aspects of the work from research to dissemination.
Honors & Awards
- Excellence in Teaching - Youth Voice In Public Health, Summer Institute, 2022 - 2025
- Excellence in Teaching - Children in Crisis: Asset Based Approaches to Vulnerable Youth, Third Term, 2021 - 2025
- Excellence in Teaching - Schools and Health, Second Term, 2019 - 2025
- 2024 APA Health Care Delivery Program Award - Johns Hopkins Rales Health Center
- 2015-2016 SOURCE Service-Learning Service Faculty Fellow
- 2015 Population, Family, and Reproductive Health Departmental Student Association Mentor Appreciation Award
- 2008-2009 John and Alice Chenoweth-Pate Fellow
- 2007 Selected participant at the Quasi-experimental Design and Analysis in Education workshop
- 2005 – 2006 Maternal and Child Health Section Fellow, American Public Health Association
- 2003 Delta Omega, Public Health Honor Society
- 1998 Golden Key Honor Society
- 1998 Delta Kappa Gamma, Education Honor Society
Select Publications
Selected publications from the last 20 years
Mmari, K., Smith, A., Gross, S., Marshall, B. (2020). Family and the Neighborhood Influences on Adolescent Food Insecurity. Journal of Urban Health.
Powell, T., Jo, M., Smith, A., Marshall, B., Thigpen, S., Offiong, A., Geffen, S. (2020). Supplementing Substance Use Prevention with Sexual Health Education: A Partner-Informed Approach to Intervention Development. Health Promotion Practice.
Mmari, K., Marshall, B., Hsu, T., Shon, JW.,, Eguavoen. A. (2016) A mixed methods study to examine the influence of the neighborhood social context on adolescent health service utilization. BMC Health Services Research, 16 (1): 433 – 446.
Marshall, B. D., Astone, N., Blum, R. W., Jejeebhoy, S., Delany-Moretlwe, S., Brahmbhatt, H.,& Wang, Z. (2014). Social capital and vulnerable urban youth in five global cities. Journal of Adolescent Health, 55: S21-S30
Hohenemser, L., Marshall, B. (2002). Utilizing a Youth Development Framework to Establish and Maintain a Youth Advisory Committee. Health Promotion Practice, 3(2): 158 –168.