Onyeka Otugo MPA 2021: Speaking up for people who haven’t been heard
As an emergency medicine physician, Otugo believes systemic racism is the number one factor for differential health outcomes, including Black maternal health and chronic diseases. She wants to change that.
Julie Galante
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Onyeka Otugo MPA 2021 had worked late the night before in the emergency room at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. She sounded tired, but even still, she seemed energized. There’s important work to do.
As an emergency medicine attending physician and health policy fellow at the Brigham, Otugo sees practice and policy as intimately tied. She’s passionate about medicine, health policy, racial health disparities, and access to care issues. There are reasons for that.