Board Members
Dr. Ivonne Kanko-Musa
Founder and Public Health Strategist
- Leads research initiatives focused on health disparities.
Dr. Tonya Robertson
Community Engagement Leader
Tonya S. Roberson is a community psychologist currently working as a university lecturer and director of Community Engagement, Program Development, and Academic Support in the College of Health and Human Services at Governors State University south of Chicago, Illinois. She is a public health expert with vast knowledge in clinical research, culturally tailoring initiatives, community engagement, practice, survey design, extensive research recruitment, independent consulting, and evaluation.
Prof. William Ebomoyi
Epidemiologist
Dr. Ebomoyi received his post-doctorate certificate from the World renowned, National Institutes of Health, MD, in genetic epidemiology and a PhD from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA; where he studied Public Health and Statistics. Currently, he is a professor of Epidemiology Science at the Chicago State University Chicago Illinois. He successfully served as the Foundation chair of the Department of Health Studies. In Greeley Colorado, he served under Mayor Jerry Wones, as Air Quality Commissioner for the City of Greeley Colorado. His research interests include Genetic epidemiology, Public health Genomics, WHO-championed primary health Care, behavioral interventions and quantitative demography. Based on this research and scientific training, he has received several awards and honors, such as: Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in science and Engineering and Who’s WHO among Executives & Professionals (2014), American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellowship and the teacher of the year in the following years, 2012-2011, 2010, 2008, 2007 and The Favorite Professor published by Mortar Board, Inc., 2004.
Dr. Adedeji Adefuye
Policy Analyst & Researcher
Dr. Adedeji S. Adefuye is Associate Medical Director for Postmarketing Safety Evaluation at Abbott Laboratories. Before his appointment at Abbott Laboratories, he served as the Director of the HIV/AIDS Research and Policy Institute and professor of epidemiology in the Department of Health Studies at Chicago State University. Dr. Adefuye has over 15 years experience in clinical, behavioral and public health research and practice. He graduated with honors from the University of Lagos College of Medicine in 1984. He obtained his MPH from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in 1999 and was awarded a fellowship of the Royal Institute of Public Health in 2001.
Cindy Campbell. Esq.
Cindy is devoted to innovation in the legal field and believes the future will include transparent pricing, personal relationships, and quality legal services that clients can trust and rely on. She earned her bachelor's degree in philosophy from Northwestern University and her Juris Doctor from Western State University College of Law in Irvine, California. In law school, she received the Witkin Award in Community Property. Through her schooling, she was drawn towards "friendly" side of practicing law and started working in estate planning and mediation.
Dr. Karen Spruyt
Global Sleep Medicine Expert and Researcher
Karen Spruyt, PhD, earned her degree in child, adolescent, and adult clinical psychology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, in 1996. Her passion for neuropsychology later resulted in a master’s thesis on the neuropsychological functioning of epileptic children, co-supervised by Professor Marit Korkman (University of Helsinki, Finland) and extra training in developmental neuropsychology alongside professor emeritus Dirk Bakker. Concurrently, Dr. Spruyt earned her master’s degree in quantitative analysis for social sciences/statistics at the Katholieke Universiteit Brussel/Leuven (Belgium). She earned her PhD in 2005 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium). The title of the PhD thesis was “Pediatric Sleep Problems: a contribution to their identification and relationship with daytime behavior”.