Omolola "Lola" Adepoju, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Lola Adepoju, Ph.D., M.P.H. is a health services researcher and Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Health Systems and Population Health Sciences, University of Houston College of Medicine. She also serves as research director at the Humana Integrated Health Systems Institute, an academic-industry partnership that integrates social and medical data to drive evidence-based practices in real-world settings. In this role, she leverages her strong quantitative expertise using big data curated from large claims datasets and electronic medical records, a skill cultivated as Associate Director of Health Economics at Optum/UnitedHealth Group.

Her work uses robust multidisciplinary methodologies to uncover patterns that promote individual and population health outcomes to alleviate cost, quality and access-to-care issues in vulnerable populations, particularly minoritized groups and older adults. In contextualizing these findings, she works directly with clinical and community partners to promote evidence-based practices.