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AMHERST A national leader who has pioneered municipal efforts to provide government-funded reparations to Black Americans will be in Amherst this week to support both the town’s ongoing work to address harms perpetuated against residents of African.
AMHERST A national leader who has pioneered municipal efforts to provide government-funded reparations to Black Americans will be in Amherst this week to support both the town’s ongoing work to address harms perpetuated against residents of African.
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
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.
Studying at HKS was an almost unimaginable opportunity for Gillies.
Growing up in Australia, in a poor household, she credits a dedicated single parent, a strong public education, an accessible welfare system, and a series of fortuitous interventions for creating an opportunity that was out of reach for so many others.
“I am definitely drawn to a career in public service because of my upbringing and background,” she says. “I came to HKS to learn the leadership and technical skills to reform social policy in Australia, specifically to reduce the incidence and impacts of long-term welfare dependency.”
“I have first-hand experience of the potential for health care, social services, housing, education, and disability support policies and services to transform the lives of the Australian people, including members of my own family,” she says. “I understand the strengths and weakness of these policies and services. And I am aware of the immense potential for public