Isabel Hampton Robb Lecture Series: Fifty Years of Trying to Get it Right

Deborah Gross is a renowned expert in behavioral health, best known for developing and scaling the Chicago Parent Program (CPP), an evidence-based parenting intervention created with Black/African-American and Latino families from low-income communities. CPP is now used in 25 states and D.C. across schools, early childhood programs, and mental health settings. She holds joint appointments at Johns Hopkins in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and in Mental Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. A Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow, Dr. Gross has received multiple honors, including the American Academy of Nursing Edge Runner award and induction into the Sigma Theta Tau Researchers Hall of Fame. She has authored over 150 publications focused on parenting, child mental health, and equitable, community-based interventions, and serves on the editorial board of Research in Nursing & Health.

Connecting the present to the past, the Isabel Hampton Robb lecture recognizes the achievement of a JHSON faculty member at the highest level, taking into account not only past eminence and track-record, but also the potential for ongoing excellence.

Isabel Hampton Robb was the first superintendent of nurses at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and principal of the nursing school. An exceptional scholar and visionary, Robb laid the foundations for our reputation of leadership and innovation, a tradition that has grown and flourished over decades. To honor her memory and the exceptional leaders who have followed her, the Isabel Hampton Robb Dean’s Lecture was established in 2017.