Assistant Professor
School of Nursing
Dr. Johnson is an assistant professor and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar. She joined the School of Nursing in 2012 as an Assistant Professor in Public Health Nursing after completing her Ph.D. in Nursing and a four-year pre-doctoral fellowship in adolescent health at the University of Minnesota. She is an adolescent health and public health nursing researcher with foci on:
Establishing a statewide public health surveillance system for alternative high schools in Texas
Promoting resilience and positive youth development and preventing health-risk behaviors through sport and physical activity
Surveillance and secondary analyses of large epidemiological data sets that track health-risk behaviors and risk/protective factors among adolescents at-risk for school dropout (e.g., Youth Risk Behavior Survey, Minnesota Student Survey)
Developing intergenerational interventions that link students at-risk for school dropout with community-dwelling older adults.