Dr. Yvonne Commodore-Mensah is a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she is also a faculty of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity. As a nurse and cardiovascular epidemiologist, her program of research seeks to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease in populations of African descent living in the U.S. and globally (sub-Saharan Africa) through epidemiologic and community-engagement methods. She is a co-investigator in the Johns Hopkins Center for Mobile Technologies to Achieve Equity in Cardiovascular Health.