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Ryan Sutherland, Community Outreach Director of the Neighborhood Health Project (NHP), shares how his journey—from aspiring ethnomusicologist to public health advocate—shaped his passion for community-centered care. Since 2003, NHP has redefined healthcare access by offering free diabetes and hypertension screenings every Saturday at Loaves and Fishes food pantry in New Haven.

In this episode, Ryan explains how meeting patients where they are not only improves health outcomes but also rebuilds trust in a system that has often failed them. We dive into NHP’s unique model, where students across health disciplines provide compassionate care alongside partners offering everything from emergency contraception to mental health services.

We also explore how NHP’s philosophy—"nothing about us without us"—reshapes medical education by teaching future providers to view health equity as both a clinical and social justice imperative. Ryan’s story reminds us that global health starts in our own neighborhoods, and that real change begins by listening.

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