Christina Cutshaw, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at the University of Arizona. She received a doctoral degree in public health with a focus on child and adolescent mental health services research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research areas are in early childhood and the relationshibetween health, parent and home factors and childcare in the development of school readiness. Other interests include mental health and social determinants of health and well-being. Dr. Cutshaw has mentored numerous undergraduate, masters and doctoral students and teaches in the areas of public health and mental disorders, women and children's health policy, and history of infectious disease and public health. Dr. Cutshaw is particularly interested in interdisciplinary work and participates in the Research Grouon Child Development, Education, and Policy CDEP) in the College of Education, and the Early Childhood Initiative in the Frances McClelland Institute in the Department of Family Studies and Human Development at the UA. Dr. Cutshaw is Director of Online Programs at the College of Public Health and Progam Director for the Family and Child Health Program. She also works part-time at the United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona as the Director of Health and Public Policy in an effort to adovcate for issues to improve public health and well-being and bridge research and practice.