Tabia Henry Akintobi, PhD, MPH 

Education

SECONDARY TITLES:
Principal Investigator, Prevention Research Center
Associate Dean, Community Engagement
Director, Evaluation and Institutional Assessment

GRADUATE:
University of South Florida College of Public Health
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in Public Health, Social and Behavioral Sciences

University of South Florida College of Public Health
Degree: Master of Public Health, Maternal and Child Health

UNDERGRADUATE:
University of Miami
Degree: Major: English; Minor: Microbiology

Research Interests

• Diabetes Prevention
• Maternal & Child Health
• Mental & Behavioral Health
• Social Marketing
• Community-Based Participatory Research and Evaluation
• Clinical and Translational Research
• Implementation Science
• Participatory Evaluation
• Social and Behavioral Sciences

Publications

• Henry Akintobi, T. & Miles-Richardson, S. (2025). Community-Centered Public Health: Strategies, Tools, and Applications for Advancing Health Equity. Springer Publishing Company, ISBN-13: 9780826189455: Manhattan, New York.

• Henry Akintobi, T., Bailey, R., & Michener, L. (2025). Community Engagement and Population Health: Harnessing the Power of Community Engagement for Population Health. Prevention Chronic Disease. 2025;22:250189.

• Henry Akintobi, T., Holliday, R., Hoffman, L., Rollins, L., Daniels, Y., Grant, H., & Kottke, M. (2025). Contextualizing Barriers and Facilitators to Scaling Community-Engaged Research Transformation at a Historically Black Medical School. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. 9: e57, 1–7. doi: 10.1017/ cts.2025.3

• Coughlin, C., Williams, L. & Henry Akintobi, T. Black Health in the South. (2023). Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, Maryland. ISBN: 9781421445465

• Henry Akintobi, T., Sheikhattari, P., Shaffer, E., Evans, C. L., Braun, K. L., Sy, A. U., Mancera, B., Campa, A., Miller, S. T., Sarpong, D., Holliday, R., Jimenez-Chavez, J., Khan, S., Hinton, C., Sellars-Bates, K., Ajewole, V., Teufel-Shone, N. I., McMullin, J., Suther, S., Kimbro, K. S., … Tchounwou, P. B. (2021). Community Engagement Practices at Research Centers in U.S. Minority Institutions: Priority Populations and Innovative Approaches to Advancing Health Disparities Research. International journal of environmental research and public health, 18(12), 6675. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18126675

• Henry Akintobi, T., Jacobs, T., Sabbs, D., Holden, K., Braithwaite, R., Johnson, L.N., Dawes, D., Hoffman, L. (2020). Community Engagement of African Americans in the Era of COVID-19: Considerations, Challenges, Implications, and Recommendations for Public Health, Preventing Chronic Disease, 2020 https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2020/20_0255.htm

• Braithwaite, R. L., Henry Akintobi, T. K., Blumenthal, D., Langley, M. W. (2020). The Morehouse Model: How One School of Medicine Revolutionized Community Engagement and Health Equity. Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, Maryland. ISBN: 978-1421438047

• Henry Akintobi, T., Lockamy, E., Goodin, L., Hernandez, N., Slocumb, T., Blumenthal, D., Braithwaite, R., Leeks, L., Rowland, M, Cotton, T., & Hoffman, L. (2018). Processes and outcomes of a community-based participatory research-driven health needs assessment: A tool for moving health disparity reporting to evidence-based action. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action. (12)139-147. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5977395/pdf/nihms968176.pdf

• Hoffman, L.M., Rollins, L., Akintobi, T.H., McAllister, C., Hernandez, N., Erwin, K., & Miller, A. (2017). Evaluation of a community-based participatory oral health intervention for low-income African American men. American Journal of Public Health, Supplement 1(107), 104-110. PMID: 28661811 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5497882/pdf/AJPH.2017.303760.pdf

Other publications may be accessed at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/tabia.henry-akintobi.1/bibliography/public/

Honors and Awards

• 2026: Academy of Community Engagement Scholarship Inductee

• 2025: Executive Leadership in Academic (ELAM) Alumni

• 2024: Medicine American Public Health Association Caucus on Public Health and the Faith Community, Inc.

• 2024: Dr. John W. Hatch FLAME Award

• 2024: Inaugural Rotary Women of Impact Award for Wellness Advocacy, Rotary Club

• 2024: Legacy Leadership Award

• 2024: Southeastern Primary Care Consortium Atlanta Area Health Education Center

• 2023: Lucille Webb Award for Leadership in Community-Based Public Health

• 2019: American Public Health Association National Community-based Organization Network

• 2019: Robert D. Russell Visiting Scholar

• 2018: Southern Illinois University Department of Public Health and Recreation Professions

• 2017: American Public Health Association Community Public Health, Caucus Thomas Bruce, MD Award

• 2015: National Community-based Organization Network Lucille Webb Award

• 2015: University of South Florida College of Public Health Inaugural Outstanding Alumni Award

• 2015: Morehouse School of Medicine Master of Public Health Program Keystone Award

• 2014: Fulton County Healthy Heart Coalition, Heart of Champions Award

• 2014: Morehouse School of Medicine Master of Public Health Program Teacher of the Year Award