Ryan Sutherland

Ryan Sutherland is a third-year medical student at the Yale School of Medicine. He earned a BS and BA in Biology and Music Performance with honors from Emory University. He also earned an MPH from Yale University and an MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge as a Rotary Global Grant Scholar. He is drawn to projects at the intersection of clinical medicine, public health, and global development, and actively conducts research on homelessness, substance use, maternal and child health, palliative care, and in Urology. He serves as the Executive Director of the New Haven PAUSE Project and Community Outreach Director of the Neighborhood Health Project, two local community clinics that focus on caring for New Haven's homeless, undocumented, and uninsured populations. At YSM, he leads the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) chapter, is a Solomon Fellow at the Yale Law School and serves as a member of the Student Advisory Board at the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking. As a scholar-activist, he is interested in leveraging his passion for social entrepreneurship, community mobilization and human-centered design to revolutionize healthcare delivery models and build more resilient communities.