Dr. Jannette Berkley-Patton is a professor in the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine Biomedical and Health Informatics Department, the director of the UMKC Community Health Research Group, and the director of the UMKC Health Equity Institute. Her expertise is in using community-engaged approaches to develop and test culturally-tailored health screening and linkage to care interventions to address African American health disparities including HIV/STDs, mental health, dementia, diabetes, and COVID-19 in collaboration with community and health agency partners. Dr. Berkley-Patton has been honored with induction into the KU Women’s Hall of Fame and the University of Missouri System Cross-Cultural Community Engagement Presidential Award, and is appointed as the Merle and Muriel Hicklin Endowed Chair in Internal Medicine in the UMKC School of Medicine.