Dr. Reginald Tucker-Seeley
Dr. Reginald Tucker-Seeley is the principal and owner of Health Equity Strategies and Solutions. He completed master and doctoral degrees in public health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) and a postdoctoral fellowship in cancer prevention and control at HSPH and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI). He held professor appointments at HSPH and DFCI as well as the University of Southern California. He is a national expert in health disparities, health equity, and social determinants of health with a specific focus on financial hardship and cancer. He has published 50+ peer-reviewed manuscripts and worked with several community organizations in creating tools to raise awareness about and report on health disparities. He serves on two boards of national organizations: the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Foundation and the Patient Advocate Foundation/National Patient Advocate Foundation.
Dr. Tucker-Seeley brings a unique background to lead Health Equity Strategies and Solutions. He has a background in accounting, mental health, and public health and has worked in academia, government, and non-profit organizations. He spent the 2017-2018 academic year as an RWJF Health Policy Fellow working in the US Senate, and this experience highlighted the various pathways to change (impacting health outcomes) outside of the traditional academic pathways.
Dr. Tucker-Seeley is eager to work with you as a thought-, development-, implementation- and evaluation-partner on grants and in project/programs focused on the social determinants of health, financial hardship/financial toxicity related to chronic disease (especially cancer), health disparities measurement, and health equity strategy.
Advisors and Collaborators
Dr. Cassandra A. Okechukwu, ScD, MSN, MPH
Advisor, Social Epidemiology and Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Okechukwu is a nurse, social epidemiologist, and executive with over two decades of experience designing, implementing, and evaluating policies, programs, and technologies that center equity and community voice. Her work spans federal agencies to Fortune 5 companies, translating data into actionable strategies.
As Vice President of Health Equity Research at UnitedHealth Group, she reviewed AI/ML-powered tools to ensure clinical integrity, compliance, and responsiveness. At MITRE Health, she spearheaded initiatives for HRSA, CMS, and other HHS agencies, creating tools and frameworks for better defining and addressing unmet needs for health services. A longtime educator and former faculty member, she continues to mentor emerging leaders as an Adjunct Associate Professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Dr. Okechukwu’s career is rooted in her lived experience. She grew up in poverty in Nigeria and immigrated to the U.S. in 1993 to join her widowed mother. After graduating from a U.S. public high school, she attended community college while working as a nursing assistant.
She has chaired or served on committees for the CDC, NIH, UN World Food Programme, Howard Community College Foundation, and the Clinton Foundation’s Too Small to Fail initiative. She is the author of over 80 peer-reviewed and public-facing publications. Dr. Okechukwu holds a BSN from the University of Maryland, Masters degrees in nursing and public health from Johns Hopkins, and a doctorate from Harvard.
Dr. Sherrie Flynt Wallington
Advisor and Collaborator, Qualitative Research Methods and Community Engagement
Sherrie Flynt Wallington is an associate professor (tenured) and health disparities researcher specializing in oncology at George Washington University. Dr. Wallington teaches and conducts research on health communication, social determinants of health, and community-based participatory research strategies that focus on prevention, health disparities, and clinical trial recruitment and engagement. She has a particular interest in cancer, particularly prostate, breast, and HPV-associated cancers. Dr. Wallington has been funded by the American Cancer Society, the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the National Cancer Institute. She has authored several peer-reviewed publications and serves as a scientific grant reviewer for the NIH and other national foundations. In addition, she is a program evaluator and consultant on NIH-funded, governmental, and foundation grant awards. She has collaborated with Dr. Tucker-Seeley and Health Equity Strategies and Solutions on multiple projects and peer reviewed manuscripts including the following:
Tucker-Seeley, R. D., Bezold, C. P., James, P., Miller, M., & Wallington, S. F. (2016). Retail pharmacy policy to end the sale of tobacco products: what is the impact on disparity in neighborhood density of tobacco outlets?. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 25(9), 1305-1310.
Tucker-Seeley, R. D., Wallington, S. F., Canin, B., Tang, W., & McKoy, J. M. (2021). Health equity for older adults with cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 39(19), 2205-2216.