Nigerian-born health innovator Anina Agboola unleashes care app to battle diseases

By Emmanuel Adarabioyo

Anina Agboola never intended to become a healthcare innovator. Her journey began in digital media and storytelling—until a personal loss changed everything.

“When my father passed away from complications related to chronic illness, I started asking questions,” she says. “Why was everything so reactive? Why didn’t we have better tools, sooner? And why do so many families, especially in underserved communities, fall through the cracks?”

Those questions led Agboola to create Roots, a next-generation chronic care app designed to predict and prevent disease—not just treat it. At the center of the app is MyRootScore, an AI-powered “credit score for your health” that helps users understand their personalized risk in real time. But Agboola’s vision goes far beyond numbers.

“I’m building a wellness operating system,” she explains. “Something that integrates early detection, lifestyle change, clinical insight, and cultural relevance—all in one place.”

Her work has attracted attention across sectors, from integrative medicine practitioners to public
health leaders around the globe. But it’s her new book, The Chronic Care Blueprint: A New Era of Root Cause Prevention and Whole-Person Wellness, that cements her role as a thought leader in digital health transformation.

The book unpacks not just the problem—rising rates of preventable disease—but also offers tangible solutions, rooted in behavioral science, technology, and system redesign. It’s already being hailed as a timely resource for a global healthcare system in crisis.

“We don’t need more apps,” Agboola says. “We need more context. More humanity. More tools that understand the person behind the data. That’s what I’m building.”

And she’s just getting started.

Anina Agboola is a Nigerian-born digital health innovator and founder of HoliHealth. She is the creator of the Roots app and author of The Chronic Care Blueprint. She leads digital transformation at Tims Clinic, a 45-year-old legacy healthcare institution. Her work blends behaviour change, chronic disease prevention, and culturally intelligent technology to build scalable, human-centered solutions.

Learn more about The Chronic Care Blueprint and the Roots app at AninaAgboola.com. For more on the company behind the technology, visit HoliHealth.io.