Professor Roberta K. Timothy is the Black Health Lead, and the program developer and inaugural program director of the first Master’s in Public Health (MPH) in the field of Black Health. She is an Assistant Professor, a political scientist, psychotherapist and community health leader. She specializes in the areas of critical intersectionality; health ethics; Black health, Black families, Black women and children; confronting anti-Black racism; resistance, and empowerment centered praxis; transnational African/Black and Indigenous health; racialized health, gender and violence; healing and wellness; and anti-oppression/anti-colonial/decolonizing approaches to mental health. With extensive teaching experience in universities, colleges, and in social service organizations and community settings, she has expertise in critical health pedagogies, art-based practices, and social justice health policy development and implementation. In 2021, she started a mentoring group for Black graduate students at Dalla Lana School of Public Health and has initiated a peer mentoring program for students in the MPH in the field of Black Health. Professor Timothy is the Principal Investigator for the Black Health Matters (BHM) Lab started in 2020. Currently, she is working on pedagogy and research related to Black health and covid-19 and a Black Health Library Guide to be released in April. She utilizes her decolonial, African/Black feminist, intersectional, pedagogy and methodology developed in her Doctoral studies and community health work entitled “Resistance Education” to support all aspects of her teaching, research, and psychological work. Professor Timothy has lived and worked with a corneal (dis)ability since the age of 19.  

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