Christina M. Holt, M.A.

Christina Holt serves as Interim Director of the University of Kansas Center for Community Health and Development, where she provides strategic leadership to advance the Center’s mission of promoting health and well-being through community-engaged research and capacity building. She works to equip people with the tools to create meaningful change—and to measure progress along the way.

Christina specializes in strengthening community capacity for change and improvement, as well as supporting the evaluation of community-based initiatives. At the Center, she directs core capacity-building and evaluation functions, including the Community Tool Box—a free, global resource offering more than 7,000 pages of practical guidance—and the Community Check Box Evaluation System, which supports the documentation and analysis of community change efforts.

She serves as Principal Investigator for a range of applied research, evaluation, and capacity development initiatives addressing critical public health and social issues. Her current and recent projects include leading evaluation and technical assistance for the Primary Prevention of Sexual Violence initiative (Kansas Department of Health and Environment); serving as third-party evaluator for the Collective Impact Initiative (Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation); guiding the development of a Common Kansas Maternal Health Action Agenda (United Methodist Health Ministry Fund); and monitoring and evaluating implementation of the Title V Maternal and Child Health State Action Plan (Kansas Department of Health and Environment).

Christina leads the development of competitive grant proposals and contracts to support the Center’s research, evaluation, and capacity-building work, and advances internal and external communications to strengthen partnerships and amplify impact. She has served as a speaker and technical consultant for organizations including the World Health Organization, World Bank, United Nations, and the National Academy of Medicine. 

Christina holds a master’s degree in Human Development (Child and Developmental Psychology) from the University of Kansas.