Kim Martin is an accomplished writer/editor and public affairs specialist with 20+ years’ experience at Johns Hopkins. She is also a digital content strategist and has led the development of several websites, while also producing interactive content for the web. She is currently the Communications and Marketing Senior Advisor for The Challenge Initiative, a $170-million program based at the Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health within the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Prior to her current position, Kim served as Communications Director for a USAID-funded health communication project based at Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP). She was the director of Johns Hopkins Children’s Center Office of Communications and Public Affairs from March 2007 – November 2012. Martin played a pivotal role in implementing a communications and marketing strategy for Hopkins Children’s Center as it prepared to open a state-of-the-art pediatric hospital in May 2012. Before that, she spent six years at CCP as Senior Public Affairs and Advocacy Officer as well as advocacy director for a global malaria advocacy project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Kim came to Hopkins from Fleishman-Hillard Inc., where she served as a vice president. A former journalist, Kim worked as a reporter for the Associated Press in Miami, Florida, and Hartford, Connecticut; McGraw Hill’s Energy and Business Newsletters in New York City; and Dow Jones Newswire in Washington, DC, where she covered Congress, federal agencies, and the executive branch.