Dr. Timothy is the Black Health Leado and the program developer, and the Inaugural program director of the first MPH in the field of Black Health. She is an Assistant professor, a political scientist, a therapist, and a community health leader. Dr.Timothy specializes in the areas of intersectionality and ethics in health; Black health, confronting anti-Black racism, resistance and empowerment centred praxis; transnational African/Black and Indigenous health; racialized health, gender and violence;  Black families, healing and wellness, and anti-oppression/anti-colonial/decolonizing approaches to mental health. With extensive teaching experience in universities, colleges, social service organizations and community settings, she has particular expertise in critical health theories and social justice health policy development and implementation. She prioritizes critical and creative approaches to knowledge production that reflect the experiences and aspirations of African/Black diasporic, migrant, refugee, and transnational Indigenous communities. Her scholarship contributes to critical race theory by examining how factors such as Indigeneity, gender, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, (dis)ability, religion/spirituality, transgenerational connections, and historical and contemporary intersectional violence impact African/Black communities’ health and wellness, by centring community resistance through innovative decolonizing health practices, including art-based practices.