Dr. Rupi's Protective Care Framework
Our Reimagining of Clinical Care
Antiracist MD (ARMD), under the leadership of Dr. Rupi Legha, operates on the belief that mental health care cannot be separated from social justice and that true healing requires dismantling the systems that cause harm in the first place. We aim to challenge psychiatry’s role in perpetuating oppression and offer an alternative:
This unique and innovative framework centers dignity, refuses complicity in punitive systems, and treats context as inseparable from care.
About Dr. Rupi’s Protective Care Framework
I spent years working within the system, believing I could change it from the inside. I trained at Harvard, completed dual board certifications in adult and child/adolescent psychiatry, taught in academic institutions, and tried to build antiracist practices in racist settings.
