Dr. Ifeolu David is a physician and public health scholar, and Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Health Leadership and Analytics at the University of Texas at Tyler. He earned his Ph.D. in Public Health from the University of Missouri-Columbia and completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the Michigan Society of Fellows in Epidemiology at the University of Michigan. Before entering academia, Dr. David practiced medicine in both rural and urban communities in Sierra Leone. His frontline work during the West African Ebola outbreak with the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization shaped his commitment to advancing outbreak preparedness, disease surveillance, and health equity in low-resource settings. His research explores HIV and COVID-19 among immigrants, minority populations, and healthcare workers in the United States, South Africa, and Sierra Leone, using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Through interdisciplinary, collaborative research, Dr. David focuses on infectious disease prevention, vaccine hesitancy, and public health preparedness, with a strong emphasis on improving health and well-being in underserved and rural communities.