Tichianaa Armah

Dr. Tichianaa Armah is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and holds leadership roles at Community Health Center, Inc. (CHCI), including Chief Psychiatry Officer and Vice President of Behavioral Health. She graduated from Swarthmore College (B.A. Psychology, 1999) and the University of Rochester School of Medicine (M.D., 2008). Her academic focus centers on cultural humility and addressing mental healthcare disparities, particularly for underserved populations.

She completed her psychiatry residency at Yale, serving as Chief Resident of the Hispanic Clinic and co-president of the Psychiatric Residents Association. Currently, she leads CHCI’s behavioral health initiatives, which serve over 130,000 patients annually. Her professional achievements include co-authoring cultural psychiatry training modules and co-PIing an HRSA-funded telehealth grant to expand virtual care access.

Dr. Armah has received prestigious awards such as the APA’s Excellence in Teaching Residents and the Connecticut Psychiatric Society’s Roger Coleman Memorial Award. She advocates for increasing diversity in mental health care providers and actively trains future clinicians through residency programs. Her work emphasizes integrating telepsychiatry into rural and underserved settings to improve equitable care delivery.

• Education: Swarthmore College (B.A.), University of Rochester School of Medicine (M.D.)
• Affiliations: Yale School of Medicine, CHCI, Weitzman Institute
• Grants: HRSA Optimizing Virtual Care Grant (Co-PI)