Udodiri R. Okwandu, PhD is a historian of science and medicine whose scholarship and teaching contextualize profound racial, gender, and class inequities within the U.S. healthcare landscape. She is particularly interested in examining the historical contexts of psychiatric and reproductive health injustices and sociocultural understandings of health and disease. She is currently a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. As a Presidential Scholar at Harvard University, Udodiri earned her PhD and MA in the History of Science.