Off the Charts
A column by Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu, M.D., M.S., a psychiatrist specializing in women’s mental health and reproductive psychiatry. She is a graduate from Harvard College and the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and here she offers reflections on medicine and justice through the lens of a doctor with many identities: Black woman, immigrant, patient, mother, mental health advocate.
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