Jessica Isom, MD, MPH, is a board-certified community psychiatrist and Clinical Instructor in the Yale Department of Psychiatry. She primarily works in Boston, MA as an attending psychiatrist at Codman Square Health Center. She currently serves as a member of the American Psychiatric Association Assembly, where her contributions center on illuminating the need for health equity in organized psychiatry. 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. Her teaching highlights the history of medical racism, interpersonal challenges in interracial interactions, and provides a language for naming and responding to racism at multiple levels. Dr. Isom is also a co-founder of not just a black body, a new initiative that shines a light on the impact of covid-19 and racism in the black communities and advocates for black patients.


The Racial Dialogue Collective is a faculty approved, medical student run club at the University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences that focuses on antiracism practices in and outside of medicine in addition to, uplifting the voices of those that are part of the African Diaspora.

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