CEO & Co-Founder,
Strong Children Wellness;
Founder, Melanin & Medicine; Founder & Senior Consultant, Social Health Rising
Omolara is a healthcare social entrepreneur, board-certified pediatrician, community health equity consultant, career transition & business coach, public health researcher & health justice advocate.
She has been a practicing pediatrician for the past 14 years in the United States and internationally in several countries across Latin America, Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Her perspective on delivering pediatric care is globally-informed, innovative and unconventional- healthcare can be effectively delivered in non-healthcare settings in the community. It must consider the child and the disease, the parents, the household, and the larger community.
Omolara co-founded Strong Children Wellness, a multi-award-winning healthcare practice network in NYC, providing integrated physical, mental, and social health services for low-income communities of color. She has served as faculty at Columbia University Medical Center and Cohen Children’s Medical Center, conducting research and training resident physicians in community-engaged pediatrics, social determinants of health and care of global/immigrant populations.
She received her medical degree from New York University School of Medicine. She completed residency training in the Harvard and Boston University-affiliated Boston Combined Residency Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center. She received her MPH and completed fellowship training in health services research at Columbia.
Omolara Thomas Uwemedimo, MD, MPH, joins Eric to discuss place-based interventions and how they are used to address health inequities. The place-based model focuses on improving health that aligns with community members, businesses, schools, churches and other institutions in a specific geographic location (a specific community or zip code).
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