{"id":23375,"date":"2013-05-07T13:56:16","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T18:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=23375"},"modified":"2026-06-09T15:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:01:08","slug":"leanne-yinusa-nyahkoon","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/profile\/leanne-yinusa-nyahkoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Leanne Yinusa-Nyahkoon, ScD, OTR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p abp=\"1737\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Leanne<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Yinusa-Nyahkoon, ScD, OTR\/L, is an occupational therapist whose practice has focused on children with disabilities and chronic health conditions and their families, the majority of whom are from urban communities of color. Dr. Yinusa-Nyahkoon is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy at Boston University, a Research Scientist in the Department of Family Medicine and a Research Associate in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, both within Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Yinusa-Nyahkoon\u2019s research focuses on examining health disparities that affect urban communities of color and the clients\u2019, families\u2019, providers\u2019, and community\u2019s perspectives of the inequities that impact health behavior and illness management. Her current funded research projects include <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Innovative Communication Technology to Improve the Health of Young African American and <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Black Women: The Gabby System<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/about-us\/our-publications\/inside-sargent\/inside-sargent-2020\/closing-the-gap\/\">Gabby System<\/a> is a web-based health education system <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">designed for young Black women that uses an embodied conversational agent to assess 150<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">preconception health needs, and deliver evidence-based interventions to facilitate health<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">behavior change. Dr. Yinusa-Nyahkoon and her interprofessional research team are currently<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">implementing the Gabby System at Healthy Start sites and community health centers across the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">United States. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Yinusa-Nyahkoon\u2019s research interests also include interprofessional care. As a qualitative expert, she is currently participating in a research project examining clients\u2019, health professional trainees\u2019, and health care providers\u2019 perceptions of the interprofessional care experience within urban medical centers. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2 abp=\"1737\">Scholarly and Practice Interests<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li abp=\"1738\">Leanne Yinusa-Nyahkoon is a three time graduate of Boston University receiving her BS, MS, and ScD degrees at Sargent College. She has clinical experience as an occupational therapist treating individuals of all ages; however, her clinical expertise and passion is working with school-aged children.<\/li>\n<li abp=\"1738\">Leanne\u2019s research to date has focused on examining health disparities that disproportionately affect urban communities by understanding the family routines that impact health management. She currently serves as a research associate for a project titled, Using Innovative Communication Technology to Improve the Health of Young African American Women. Her research team, which includes researchers from Boston and Northeastern Universities, is examining young, African American female\u2019s beliefs about preconception care, in an effort to develop a web-based health educational system that assesses health risks, delivers health interventions, and ultimately helps minimize the existing poor maternal and child health outcomes that plague the African American community.<\/li>\n<li abp=\"1738\">Leanne has also integrated occupational therapy\u2019s focus on occupations into this primary care intervention, and is interested in expanding occupational therapy\u2019s role in primary care.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 abp=\"1749\">Publications<\/h2>\n<p><span>Lists of published works: <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar?hl=en&amp;as_sdt=0%2C22&amp;q=Leanne+Yinusa-Nyahkoon&amp;btnG=\">Google Scholar\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7252,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/23375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7252"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/23375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86285,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/23375\/revisions\/86285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}