Dr. Roberta K. Timothy is the past Black Health Lead (2021-25), Inaugural Program Director, and the Creator of the first MPH in the field of Black Health. Dr. Timothy is also the former Program Director in Health Promotion (2019-2021). She is an Associate professor, a political scientist, therapist, and community health leader. She specializes in the areas of intersectionality, critical trauma-informed praxis, ethics in healthcare; Black health, transgenerational health: Black women’s/women’s health, children/youth health, Elders/senior health, Black families; confronting anti-Black racism, resistance and empowerment centred 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 particular expertise in critical health theories and social justice health policy development and implementation. She prioritizes critical and creative approaches to knowledge production that reflect the experiences and aspirations of African/Black diasporic, migrant, refugee, and transnational Indigenous communities. Her scholarship contributes to critical race theory by examining how factors such as Indigeneity, gender, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, (dis)ability, religion/spirituality, transgenerational connections, and historical and contemporary intersectional violence impact African/Black communities health and wellness, by centering community resistance through innovative decolonizing health practices, including art based practices.

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