Iheoma U. Iruka

Iheoma U. Iruka, Ph.D., is a tenured professor in the Department of Maternal and Child Health at the Gillings School of Global Public Health and Founding Director of the Equity Research Action Coalition at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. An applied developmental psychologist, Dr. Iruka’s work focuses on ensuring that racially, economically, and linguistically minoritized children thrive from the prenatal period through early childhood by centering their sociocultural assets and examining the racialized contexts that shape their development, experiences, and opportunities across research, practice, and policy.