Jessica Isom, MD MPH

Dr. Jessica Isom, M. D., M. P. H., is a recent graduate of the Yale psychiatry residency program and currently an attending psychiatrist at Codman Square Health Center in Dorchester, MA as well as the Boston Medical Center Department of Psychiatry. She received her MD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she also received her MPH with a focus on public health leadership. She currently serves as a member of the APA Assembly representing Early Career Psychiatrists where her contributions center on illuminating the need for a health equity focus in organized psychiatry. She has also been elected to the Councilor Position for the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society where her focus on social justice and health equity provides an opportunity to improve the care provided to marginalized populations in the state. She has continued to work with the Yale Department of Psychiatry residency program as a voluntary faculty track leader for the Social Justice and Health Equity Curriculum. Her professional interests include working towards eradicating racial and ethnic mental health disparities, mitigating the impact of implicit racial bias on clinical care, and the use of a community focused population health approach in psychiatric practice.