Christine Markham

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About

Christine Markham, PhD, is Professor and Department Chair for Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health, Houston, Texas. She has over 30 years' experience in child and adolescent health promotion, developing and evaluating multilevel interventions in adolescent sexual health, childhood obesity prevention, and chronic disease management. These studies have been conducted in multiple urban and rural settings (e.g., schools, clinics, communities, and homes) with diverse populations, including Hispanic, African-American, American Indian and Alaska Native, and HIV-positive youth. Much of her research focuses on the use of technology to increase the reach and implementation of evidence-based interventions. Examples include It’s Your Game…Keep It Real, a multilevel, multimedia sexual health education curriculum for middle school students. Evaluated in two randomized controlled trials, It’s Your Game is recognized by USDHHS Office of Population Affairs as an effective teen pregnancy prevention program. Through dissemination efforts, It’s Your Game has been adopted by school districts across the U.S. She has extensive experience in Intervention Mapping, a systematic, theory-, evidence-, and community-based framework for developing and adapting health promotion programs and implementation interventions. She is co-author of the textbook, Planning Health Promotion Programs: An Intervention Mapping Approach, 4th edition, and teaches graduate-level courses and workshops in Intervention Mapping nationally and internationally.

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Center Affiliation

Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research

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Research Interests

• Adolescent Health
• Cardiovascular and Chronic Diseases
• Global Health
• Health Education/Behavioral Sciences
• Injury and Violence
• Maternal and Child Health
• Physical Activity and Nutrition
• Program Evaluation
• Sexual Health
• Social Determinants of Health