Christina Thompson Lively is a research associate at the Harvard School of Public Health Center for Continuing Professional Education. She researches and designs curricula for continuing professional education programs in public health executive education. She has edited and contributed to several papers, including "Why We Must Change: Laying the Groundwork to Bridge Critical Gaps in Health Care" and a forthcoming paper on employee engagement. She received her master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2006.