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Karen E. Johnson

Academic Title: Assistant Professor

Name: Karen E. Johnson

 

Department: School of Nursing

Department Website: http://www.utexas.edu/nursing/

Institution: University of Texas at Austin

 

Address: 1700 Red River-Austin
Texas, Texas 78701-1412

 

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Expertise: Dr. Johnson joined the School of Nursing in 2012 as an Assistant Professor in Public Health Nursing after completing her PhD 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:

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.


 

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