King Boston is pleased to announce that April Khadijah Inniss, MD, MSc has joined the team as the Director of Community Engaged Research. Dr. Inniss brings extensive experience to this role to shape and execute King Boston’s research, evaluation, archival, and community data vision. She will work with cross-sector partners and organizational leadership to develop the organization’s research, policy and advocacy agenda.
“We couldn’t ask for a better research director to work alongside our partners and team to build a community-based action system that evaluates Boston’s past, present and future,” said Imari Paris Jeffries, Executive Director of King Boston. “April’s background in healthcare and academia lend perfectly to this role because it aligns with King Boston’s focus on wealth building, education, housing, and racial equality.”
Dr. Inniss has a background as a pediatrician and mixed methods researcher. Her research background includes work in both academia and industry, and consists of projects that examined a variety of issues including racial and ethnic health disparities, and the impact of media exposures on adult and child health. For five years, Dr. Inniss was the Director of Research & Evaluation at The Message, a Boston-based, youth-facing media literacy startup, and she has extensive experience as a freelance research analyst at other companies and organizations.
“I am passionate about King Boston’s vision for the Boston community and I look forward to helping create the solutions that dismantle systematic racism,” said Dr. Inniss. “In this role, I’ll be able to work across sectors to build an archival and storytelling strategy for Boston’s rich BIPOC history; this will inform how individuals live and organizations are run.”
Dr. Inniss received a Master’s in Health Services Research from the University of Michigan as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar; a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School; and a BA in Urban Studies from Brown University. She completed her residency in Pediatrics at Tufts Children’s Hospital in Boston, MA.