Dr. Akintobi is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine and Associate Dean for Community Engagement at Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM). She is a Social and Behavioral Scientist and serves as the Director and Principal Investigator of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded Prevention Research Center. Dr. Akintobi has over 20 years of experience conducting community-based participatory research and evaluations designed to understand and address health disparities and advance health equity. This experience has been guided by public health social epidemiology training, social marketing, community-based participatory research, and mixed-methods evaluation. She leads community engagement key functions central to ensuring bi-directional translation between communities academic leaders and others working together to improve community health. Dr. Akintobi strategically oversees all approaches employed in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of Georgia CEAL. Concerning other COVID-19 response and recovery initiatives, she is 1) co-investigator of RADx-UP Diabetes, a study to optimize COVID-19 testing for minority populations affected by diabetes and associated comorbidities, including pre-diabetes and obesity and multi-principal investigator and 2) community engagement senior advisor for the National COVID-19 Resiliency Network.