Kaytura Felix, MD

Kaytura Felix self-identifies as a spiritual activist who has pursued health justice in a myriad of professional roles. She trained in medicine, health services & community-based participatory research, and generative leadership coaching. She helps people who are experiencing seismic changes in their environment find safe harbor within themselves first and then with community venture out to build together the worlds they want. Worlds that embrace, love, and support all.

She joined the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in January 2023 as a Distinguished Scholar in the Department of Health & Management. Her research highlights community solutions to systemic problems such as racism. She currently leads the Black Birthing Futures study, an in-depth, asset-based narrative study of how Black midwives are addressing the Black perinatal crisis in the U.S. Her teaching focuses on helping leaders develop the leadership capabilities to address complex social arrangements, such as racism, climate change, and poverty. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, she had twenty-plus-year career at the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation advancing health improvements for some of the most oppressed and under-resourced communities in the U.S.