Departmental Affiliations
Research Interests
medical racism, health systems, health disparities, community health
Experiences & Accomplishments
Kaytura Felix, MD is a Distinguished Scholar in the Department of Health & Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her work focuses on medical racism and health justice. She self-describes as a spiritual activist who has pursued health justice in a myriad of professional roles for more than twenty-five years. Her most recent role was a managing director at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation where she led a large portfolio of national leadership programs that supported, strengthened and networked leaders who were collectively advancing health equity and structural racism. She trained in medicine, health services and community-based participatory research, and generative leadership coaching.
Select Publications
Selected publications listed.
Vargas, N., Lebrun-Harris, L. A., Weinberg, J., Dievler, A., & Felix, K. L. (2018). Qualitative perspective on the learning health system: How the community health applied research network paved the way for research in safety-net settings. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, 12(3), 329-339. https://doi.org/10.1353/cpr.2018.0057
Sampson, U. K. A., Kaplan, R. M., Cooper, R. S., Diez Roux, A. V., Marks, J. S., Engelgau, M. M., Peprah, E., Mishoe, H., Boulware, L. E., Felix, K. L., ... Mensah, G. A. (2016). Reducing Health Inequities in the U.S. Recommendations From the NHLBI's Health Inequities Think Tank Meeting. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 68(5), 517-524. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2016.04.059
Koo, D., Felix, K., Dankwa-Mullan, I., Miller, T., & Waalen, J. (2012). A call for action on primary care and public health integration. American journal of preventive medicine, 42(6 SUPPL. 2), S89-S91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2012.04.011
Proser, M., Aaron, K. F., Meyers, D., & Cornell, C. (2007). Building a research agenda for community health centers and the medically underserved: meeting proceedings.Progress in community health partnerships : research, education, and action, 1(1), 67-73. https://doi.org/10.1353/cpr.0.0006