Yolanda Ogbolu, Ph.D., Neonatal Nurse Practitioner, FNAP, FAAN
Yolanda Ogbolu, Ph.D., CRNP-Neonatal, FNAP, FAAN, Professor and Dean at the University of Maryland School of Nursing where she co-directs the Center for Health Equity and Outcomes Research and the Global Learning to Advance Health Equity Network. She previously served as Director of Global Health for the School of Nursing. Her interprofessional and community engaged research and scholarship focuses on advancing health equity and nurse capacity locally and globally. Projects center on strengthening nurses’ capacity to impact global health, improving the provision of culturally and linguistically appropriate care in rural and urban hospitals, and addressing social isolation and social determinants of health in marginalized communities in her native West Baltimore. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJ), she translated Dara Institute’s social inclusion program from Brazil to Baltimore to reduce family social isolation in West Baltimore.
She is highly regarded for her collaborative spirit and for catalyzing colleagues, including for the GL4HE network working with partners from Albert Einstein School of Medicine, Athens-City County Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard, Corner Health, Johns Hopkins University, University of Maryland Baltimore, and College Park. She has served nationally working on projects with the American Association of Nursing, National Quality Forum, National League of Nursing, the Surgeon General’s Office and consulted internationally with the World Health Organization. Ogbolu is an elected fellow of the National Academies of Practice and the American Academy of Nursing.