She was a member of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority[2] and served as president of the Einstein chapter of the Physicians for a National Health Program.
At Yale School of Medicine, Jordan served as the director of Social Justice and Health Equity curriculum for the department of psychiatry.
[9] In 2017, Jordan joined Yale School of Medicine psychiatry professor Chyrell Bellamy to design the Imani Breakthrough Project.
[1] In 2020, Jordan worked with U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro to secure funding for a program addressing racial disparities in the treatment of drug and alcohol addiction.
The program, "Computer Based Training for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy", targeted the Black community in New Haven, Connecticut, and was hosted by the Dixwell Avenue Congregational United Church of Christ.
[16] Jordan was a senior author of a 2021 study published in Lancet Psychiatry that found that minority patients suffering from depression or anxiety had unmet needs for healthcare practitioners who were culturally competent.
In a 2015 deportation trial for a former child soldier from the country, she told the judge that returning him to Sierra Leone would likely result in him being stigmatized and suffering a psychotic episode.
[22] As a science communicator, Jordan has written articles and provided commentary on subjects relating to mental health and addiction.
Topics she has addressed include fentanyl,[23] cannabis use disorder,[24] treatments for methamphetamine users,[25] Narcan use,[20] the portrayal of addiction in the television series Euphoria,[26] the link between suicide and substance abuse disorders,[27] follow-up care for patients who screen positive for depression,[28] excited delirium,[29] the viability of SPECT scans for assessing alcohol-related brain damage,[30] and racial disparities in the prescription of addiction treatments[31] and overdose deaths.
She cited corporate marketing strategies and physician bias as factors that contribute to attributed racial disparities in the duration of treatment for buprenorphine.