Christine Markham, PhD
Professor and Chair and Allan King Professorship in Public Health
Christine.Markham@uth.tmc.edu
Department
Associate Director
Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research
Professor and Chair
Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences
Research Interests
Adolescent Health
Sexual Health
Health Education/Behavioral Sciences
Maternal and Child Health
Program Evaluation
Cardiovascular and Chronic Diseases
Injury and Violence
Physical Activity and Nutrition
Social Determinants of Health
Global Health
Biography
Christine Markham, PhD, is Professor and Interim 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 25 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.
Contact
Christine.Markham@uth.tmc.edu
Office: +1 (713) 500-9646
Fax: +1 (713) 500-9602
Current Projects
Be Legendary - Developing a Multi-Component Teen Pregnancy Prevention Intervention for Male Teens
A theoretically-based and youth-centered approach to reduce unplanned teen birth among male adolescents
Code of Respect (X-CoRe) Program
A study to develop and test the usability of a sexual harassment and assault prevention program for active duty Airmen.
Mobilizing Community Partnerships for Effective Sex Education in Middle School
Using community-based participatory research methods, researchers at UTHealth developed iCHAMPSS, an innovative, theory- and Web-based decision support system designed to facilitate the adoption, implementation, and maintenance of adolescent sexual health evidence-based programs in schools.
Houston Collaborative for Youth in Care Research/iCHAMPSS 2.0
UTHealth leads the research arm of the Houston Collaborative for Youth in Care. This work includes developing sexual health education for youth in foster care and adults that work with them, updating iCHAMPSS, and reviewing sex-ed programs for TEKS alignment.
Native It's Your Game
Native IYG is an online sexual health education curriculum for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth ages 12-14.
Me and You: Building Healthy Relationships
Me & You is among one of the first middle school programs to have been developed and shown to be effective in reducing dating violence perpetration for ethnic minority middle school youth and to include components from multiple levels of the socio-ecological model.
Harris Saves
Harris SAVES (SARS-CoV-2 Prevalence Survey) was a research project developed to better understand the prevalence and transmission of COVID-19 in Harris County, Texas.
Project Red Talon
The goal of Project Red Talon is to provide outreach, education, and technical assistance to disseminate Native It’s Your Game 2.0, a web-based HIV, STI, and pregnancy prevention curriculum for American Indian and Alaska Native youth ages 12-14 with both an online and jump drive delivery.
Native iCHAMPS
The goal of this R21 study is to adapt and assess the feasibility and impact an innovative online decision support system, Native iCHAMPS, to facilitate the adoption and implementation of culturally-relevant effective sexual health education interventions in AIAN communities.
It's Your Game
IYG is a a theory-based healthy relationship and sexual health education curriculum.
Me & You-Tech: A Socio-Ecological Solution to Teen Dating Violence for the Digital Age
The goal of this 3 year Fast-Track STTR is to develop and evaluate a multi-level (youth, parent, school) Internet-based teen dating violence (DV) prevention program, ‘Me & You-Tech’ (MYTech), for predominantly racial/ethnic-minority 6th--grade middle school students.