Obianuju “Uju” Berry, MD, MPH is both a child/adolescent and women’s mental health psychiatrist. She is also the Director of NYC Health + Hospitals Domestic and Gender-Based Violence Mental Health Initiatives and an Associate Clinical Professor at NYU Langone within the Department of Child Adolescent Psychiatry.
Uju is a graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Medical School, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Columbia University Psychiatry Residency and Fellowship Programs. She is an academic researcher and child/adolescent and reproductive psychiatrist with several peer-reviewed article publications and clinical expertise in early childhood mental health, women’s mental health, health equity, and trauma. She is experienced in mental health research, public policy, and has worked with a variety of state and federal institutions, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institute ofDomestic Violence in the African American Community, and NYC Health and Hospitals, the largest municipal health system in the United States. She is a multiple Principal Investigator for the NYU site on a large longitudinal cohort NIH grant called the Healthy Brain Child Development Study that will follow approximately 8000 children from pregnancy through age 10. She is also the Director of two city-wide initiatives to expand mental health access to families impacted by domestic violence, working closely with the Mayor’s Office and with the largest holding of domestic violence shelters in the United States. Dr. Berry serves on the American Psychiatric Association’s Council of Women’s Mental Health, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist as a Councilor-at-Large, and is on the Board of the National Alliance for Hope. Dr. Berry’s interests focus on implementation science, service delivery, maternal health, equity and inclusion, and impact of trauma on child psychopathology.
