Heather Irobunda, MD

Dr. Heather Irobunda is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist currently practicing at NYC Health and Hospitals, offering over a decade of experience in the medical field. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004, followed by attending a Post Baccalaureate Program at the SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and earning her Doctorate of Medicine from Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University in 2011. She went on to serve as an active-duty Army OB/GYN as she completed her Residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the National Capital Consortium, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and joined the Guthrie Ambulatory Care Center as an Attending Physician in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Fort Drum, NY. She helped soldiers, spouses and veterans by focusing on making sure military women had access to high-quality reproductive health care during their service. She continues to provide high-quality healthcare, currently for the people of the Bronx, New York.

She has had a variety of experiences throughout her career to include working in a variety of practice settings to include in Military medicine, academic practice, private practice, and currently with the public hospital system in New York City. Through these experiences she has observed that there is a need for good, evidence based, reliable, and easy to understand reproductive and sexual health education for the public. She also recognized the need for more discussion about health equity and wanted to integrate that into everyday conversations.

With these goals in mind, Dr. Irobunda created a blog and started Instagram and TikTok accounts with the goal of providing good information about reproductive health and justice that was inclusive and accessible. Her newest project, her podcast, Dr. Heather’s Advisory Cervix, has been developed to continue these conversations and allow listeners to hear from a variety of different voices and experts in health and medicine. She has also been featured in multiple mass media publications to include The New York Times, The Washington Post, CBS News, Cosmopolitan, Shape, and Ebony discussing a variety of topics relating to sex and reproductive health to help destigmatize these topics. She also provides consulting and advisory services to a variety of different companies and entities to include her role as a member of Peloton’s Health and Wellness Advisory Council. Additionally, she has cofounded the organization Obstetricians for Reproductive Justice.