Kaakpema Yelpaala

Digital Health Entrepreneur; Faculty Director, InnovateHealth Yale

Fusion Expert Network Member

Kaakpema ("KP") is a global entrepreneur and public health practitioner with over 20 years of experience in the public and private sectors across the United States, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Caribbean. He is a Senior Fellow and Lecturer at the Yale School of Public Health and Faculty Director for InnovateHealth Yale. KP co-founded InOn Health, leveraging digital communication and consumer insights to connect multicultural populations to healthcare services.

He also founded access.mobile International, a global digital health company improving access to health information and services in African countries. KP serves on the External Equity and Innovation Advisory Board for the American Medical Association and is Chair of the Advisory Board for IndyGeneUS, which increases diversity in clinical trials and genomics. In early 2021, Governor Jared Polis appointed KP to serve on the Colorado eHealth Commission. He is now the Chair of the Commission, which governs all health IT for the State of Colorado. KP holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honors from Brown University and a Master of Public Health from Yale. He is a 2023 Rock Health Top 50 in Digital Health Luminaries honoree.