Our team
Led by researchers with deep expertise spanning medicine, public health, biostatistics, and health policy.
A physician-scientist trained in obstetrics and gynaecology (FMCOG) with a PhD in Health Services Research, Dr. Akinyemi applies quasi-experimental methods to large national datasets to evaluate how policies such as the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid expansion shape cancer survival, maternal outcomes, and health equity. His work appears in JAMA Network Open, the International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, the American Journal of Surgery, and other leading journals. He is the recipient of the 2025 Rising Star in Social Epidemiology Award, serves as a federal grant reviewer for SAMHSA, and has mentored 20 trainees now placed at institutions including Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Chicago.
A GIS Specialist and geospatial analyst with dual master’s degrees in Geographic Information Science and Geography, Ms. Agboola works at the intersection of environmental justice, public health, and geospatial intelligence. She applies GIS mapping, spatial analysis, remote sensing, cartography, and data visualization to transform complex geographic data into accessible tools that support evidence-based decision-making and reduce disease burden. Her recent work includes co-developing a Composite Environmental Justice (CEJ) Score to reveal climate-related health inequities across the United States (under review at Science), environmental justice mapping analyses of Natech disaster risk in North and South Carolina (under review at Environmental Justice), and applications of the North Carolina Environmental Justice Screening Tool for disaster preparedness presented at the 2024 NCEJN Summit. Her published, PubMed-indexed research examines neighborhood economic deprivation and asthma-associated emergency department visits in Maryland (Frontiers in Allergy) and community-level economic deprivation and HIV infection in Washington, DC (Cureus). Her career spans faculty and research roles at Kwara State Community College, Western Illinois University, and the University of Maryland, College Park.
