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Terrinieka W. Powell, PhD (PI), is an Associate Professor in the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health (PFRH) at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has an extensive history of using community-engaged approaches and working with community partners (e.g., churches, libraries and youth-oriented CBOs) to conduct research. She has expertise in adolescent health, qualitative methods, intervention development and implementation science. She has collaborated with institutions across several states to promote educational attainment as well as prevent teen pregnancy, HIV, and substance use among adolescents. She has over 40 publications and has been PI or Co-I on 10 externally funded grants that seek to improve the lives of vulnerable young people.