Kaakpema Yelpaala is faculty director of the Future of Health Innovation Hub at the Yale School of Public Health, where he serves as a senior fellow and lecturer. A global entrepreneur and public health practitioner, Yelpaala has worked in the public and private sectors in the United States, sub-Saharan Africa, and the Caribbean. He is co-founder of InOn Health, which aims to improve access to care in the United States using digital communication channels and consumer insights that can better connect multicultural populations to healthcare services.
Yelpaala received his bachelor’s degree from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and his master of public health degree from the Yale School of Public Health.
Karen Keaton Jackson, professor of English at North Carolina Central University, has been named president of the Southern Regional Honors Council. At NCCU, Dr. Jackson serves as interim associate provost for academic programs and undergraduate research, as well as director of the honors program. Earlier in her tenure, she was director of the writing studio and the university’s campus-wide writing intensive program.
Dr. Jackson received her bachelor’s degree in English secondary education from Hampton University in Virginia. She earned her master’s degree and Ph.D. in English from Wayne State University in Detroit.
Mopelola “Mope” Adeola, a clinical associate professor of nursing at Purdue University, has been elected vice president of the Midwest Nursing Research Society board of directors. A Purdue faculty member for more than two decades, Dr. Adeloa has conducted extensive research on patient safety and comfort, student nurse comfort with patient care, registered nurse comfort and mood, and nurse job retention. Her nursing background includes experience in surgery and oncology.
Dr. Adeola received her bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in nursing from Purdue University and her Ph.D. in nursing from New Mexico State University.
