Dr Celestin Okoroji

Celestin is co-Director (name of new entity). Previously he was Head of Research at the Royal Society of Arts, and before that, he was the founding Head of the Black Thrive Research Institute. He has held visiting fellowships with both Kings College London and the London School of Economics (LSE) where Celestin was the first Black Faculty member in Psychology. His PhD in Social Psychology was awarded by the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at LSE in 2020.

Prior to joining the Center for Health Justice, I developed novel data mining methods to extract meaningful information from the EHR and study health outcomes and disparities in pregnant populations. I’m particularly interested in research that combines biomedical data science with open data sources in ways that prioritize health equity in communities.

• Certificate in Biomedical Informatics ∙ University of Pennsylvania ∙ 2019
• Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering ∙ Purdue University ∙ 2018
• B.S. in Biomedical Engineering ∙ University of Minnesota ∙ 2012

Dr Jolyon Miles-Wilson

Jolyon was previously a Senior Quantitative Researcher at the Royal Society of Arts, and before that Quantitative Researcher at the Black Thrive Research Institute and a Visiting Research Fellow at Kings College London. He completed a PhD in the Psychology of Social Decision-making at the University of Sussex in 2021. In 2022/23 he was Principal Investigator on a £140,000 project funded by the Wellcome Trust investigating the impact of Police stop and search on young Black people’s mental health.

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