Leanne Yinusa-Nyahkoon is a three time graduate of Boston University receiving her BS, MS, and ScD degrees at Sargent College. She has clinical experience as an occupational therapist treating individuals of all ages; however, her clinical expertise and passion is working with school-aged children.
Leanne’s research to date has focused on examining health disparities that disproportionately affect urban communities by understanding the family routines that impact health management. She currently serves as a research associate for a project titled, Using Innovative Communication Technology to Improve the Health of Young African American Women. Her research team, which includes researchers from Boston and Northeastern Universities, is examining young, African American female’s beliefs about preconception care, in an effort to develop a web-based health educational system that assesses health risks, delivers health interventions, and ultimately helps minimize the existing poor maternal and child health outcomes that plague the African American community
