Discipline(s):
Public Health

Area(s) of Expertise:
Early Life Stress and Health, Brain Development, Adolescent Health, Child Health Disparities, Injury and Violence Prevention

E-Mail:
sjohnson@jhsph.edu

Background:
Dr. Sara Johnson is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, with a joint appointment in the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research is focused on how social experiences shape the biology of child and adolescent development. She is particularly interested in how prenatal and early life insults and adversity shape self-regulatory physiology and beahvior later in life. Her doctoral dissertation examined neurodevelopment in adolescence and its implications for adolescent health policy. As a Health and Society Scholar, Dr. Johnson examined the link between life stress, stress physiology and risky decision-making in adolescence. She received her PhD and MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Journal Articles:
Click here for a list of Sara Johnson's available publications in PubMed.