Ogechi Nwodim is an Emergency Medicine Resident Physician at UPenn, whose interests and work focuses on fighting structural racism through community-based interventions in urban areas. She is currently a researcher with the initiative “Lift Every Voice”, which Is a platform that collects experiences of racism in the healthcare workplace (specifically, the Emergency department and OB-Gyn department), and creates possible policy solutions from the collated data.

Her previous policy research includes examining the effect of DEI policies on brain drain, the effect of national health insurance on the tuberculosis rates in prison, and CPR disparities in black and brown communities. She also has current work published in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

In addition to her work at the Urban Health Lab, she is a volunteer in the community for the Philadelphia Black Women’s Health Alliance, and at local libraries, teaching CPR in the community.