Ryan Sutherland, MPH, MPhil

Experience

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  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  May 2014 - Jul 2014

  Sexual Violence Prevention Visioning Task Force Intern

  Selected as Emory University’s Sexual Violence Prevention Visioning Task Force Intern with Emory University’s Office of Health Promotion and the CDC (Summer 2014): Advisors: Lauren Bernstein, MSW, LMSW and Jessica McDermott Sales, Ph.D.

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  Fulbright Association

  Sept 2016 - Jul 2017

  Fulbright English Teaching Assistant

  Developed and taught courses on international diplomacy, social justice, and gender equality in Madrid, Spain

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  USAID

  Aug 2017 - May 2018

  Intern

  Produced social media content, wrote human interest stories on public health and education, and drafted and translated press releases, credited as sole or contributing author on two published USAID articles

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  Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan (Ministry of Education and Culture Republic of Indonesia)

  Aug 2017 - Jun 2018

  Darmasiswa Scholar

  Received scholarship from the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture to study Bahasa Indonesia at Universitas Syiah Kuala in Banda Aceh, Indonesia

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  Global Environmental Health LAB

  Jul 2018 - Aug 2022

  Research Scholar

  Researching school-based smoking behavior and attitudes at CONTACT Center for Non-Communicable Diseases at Universitas Hasanuddin in collaboration with Global Environmental Health LAB (GEH LAB).

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  Yale School of Medicine

  May 2019 - May 2020

  Research Assistant

  Researched nonprofit hospitals’ community health needs, coordinated a Theater for Social Change project to highlight African refugees’ experiences of discrimination in healthcare settings, and examined the potential of group medical care to optimize health system performance through improved patient experience, better health outcomes, and the reduced cost of health care.

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  UNDP

  Jun 2019 - Aug 2019

  Intern

  Worked closely with the Indonesian Ministry of Health, senior policymakers, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance in order to increase nationwide immunization coverage

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  Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (CARE)

  Aug 2019 - May 2020

  Research Assistant/Food Policy Intern

  Created unified system to ensure equitable and dignified access to nutritious food for New Haven residents

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  New York University

  Aug 2019 - Feb 2020

  Research Assistant

  Researched barriers and access to in-network mental health care for at-risk patients with private insurance (this position was also in conjunction with Yale School of Public Health)

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  Cambridge Development Initiative

  Aug 2020 - Sept 2022

  - Director of student-run NGO at the University of Cambridge that partners with local change agents in Tanzania to collaboratively address development challenges (70 student volunteers). - The Cambridge Development Initiative works in Dar Es Salaam and Naalarami, Tanzania, and takes a holistic approach to tackling key development issues by piloting innovative, community-driven projects.- CDI seeks to improve physical and emotional wellbeing by engaging local communities and empowering local leaders to reach sustainable health solutions (http://www.cambridgedevelopment.org/health.html). - CDI is partnered with KITE Tanzania, a youth-led global organization dedicated to the advancement of global citizenship by helping university students create meaningful initiatives for the development of disadvantaged communities around the world (https://www.kitedsm.org/). Show less - Partnering with ShuleDirect, an online platform which provides educational content for secondary school students in Tanzania, to develop a curriculum focused on sexual and reproductive health and mental health education;- Scaling up a soap/detergent-making entrepreneurship initiative in collaboration with KITE Dar Es Salaam, a youth-led NGO dedicated to the advancement of global citizenship;- Spearheading a public health-focused Theatre for Social Change project (TfSC);- Designing health communication campaigns (health-focused TV and radio announcements);- Coordinating a pilot of Vesma, a low-cost pulley-driven ventilation fan aimed to reduce household pollution. Show less

  • Director

    Oct 2021 - Sept 2022

  • Health Project Director

    Aug 2020 - Oct 2021
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  Yale School of Medicine

  Oct 2020 - now

  Study Coordinator

  - Qualitative, in-depth interview study of patients with prostate cancer and physicians who diagnose and treat prostate cancer to better understand the perceptions of new prognostic technologies. - Overseeing patient recruitment and consent/compensating study participant;- Working collaboratively to refine interview guide;- Coordinating qualitative interviews;- Thematic coding and analysis of data in conjunction with Dr. Michael Leapman, MD, and study co-investigators (Dr. Schulman-Green, PhD); and- Data analysis and presentation. Show less

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  Partners In Health

  Oct 2020 - Jun 2021

  Case Investigator/Mentor

  - Massachusetts COVID-19 Community Tracing Collaborative (CTC) is a partnership of four groups:• MA COVID-19 Command Center• Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority (CCA)• Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH)• Partners In Health (PIH)- The goals of the Massachusetts COVID-19 Community Tracing Collaborative (CTC) are to offer a 1) comprehensive approach to address the magnitude of the COVID-19 health crisis; 2) design, deliver & operate scalable containment services/leverage unique expertise of the four partnered organizations, and 3) utilize technology, people and data to reach every person with a positive diagnosis of COVID-19 and their contacts to control the spread of the pandemic. Show less

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  Boston Congress of Public Health, Publisher of BCPH Review

  May 2021 - Aug 2021

  Fellow

  - With a passion for health communication and journalism, I completed an inaugural Fellowship with the Harvard Public Health Review (now the HPHR Journal). - During my fellowship, I wrote on a range of topics including migration, sex work, and cyberbullying. Here are some examples of my recent work: https://hphr.org/category/fellows/ryan-sutherland/. - In August 2021, I was interviewed Dr. Anthony Fauci with fellow HPHR Journal Fellow Javaid Iqbal. In this interview, Dr. Fauci offers advice to students interested in pursuing a career in public health and discusses the national response to the COVID-19 pandemic and HIV, stating that the best approach to dispelling public health misinformation is “flooding the system with people who are deeply involved with the truth and who have one goal … to preserve and protect the health and the safety of the people of the world.” Here is the link on YouTube for this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up9juVed67I&ab_channel=HPHRJournal Show less

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  Yale University

  Jun 2021 - Jul 2021

  Program Management Team, Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics
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  Cambridge Judge Business School

  Dec 2021 - Mar 2022

  EnterpriseTECH

  EnterpriseTECH is a 12-weeks long real-world learning experience at the Judge Business School (University of Cambridge) with lectures, workshops and project engagement opportunities providing an intellectual and practical foundation in entrepreneurship. Tasked with designing a business model for Alma, a wearable biosensor for at-home rapid testing of vaginal microbiome. Speakers include: Mauro Guillén, Dean, Cambridge Judge Business School; Stelios Kavadias, Margaret Thatcher Professor of Enterprise Studies in Innovation & Growth, Co-Director, Entrepreneurship Centre, Cambridge Judge Business School; Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Diageo Professor in Organisation Studies, Cambridge Judge Business School; Ghina M. Halabi, EnterpriseTECH Programme Manager, Entrepreneurship Centre, Cambridge Judge Business School; and Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller, Former Director General of the MI5, Former Chair of Wellcome Trust, and Co-president of Chatham House, among others. Show less

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  Effective Altruism Cambridge

  Jan 2022 - Mar 2022

  Effective Altruism Fellowship

  Completed 6-week fellowship with Effective Altruism Cambridge, focusing on philosophies and communities committed to maximizing good through career, project, and donation-based initiatives Topics covered: moral philosophy, health, artificial intelligence, poverty, animal welfare, biosecurity, governance, long-term risk, etc.)

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  Yale Law School

  Sept 2022 - Dec 2023

  Research Fellow, Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy

  - The Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School focuses on the intersection of law and the governance, practice, and business of health care. - Working to bring leading experts and practitioners from the public and private sectors to Yale to address cutting-edge questions of health law and policy, and to train the next generation of top health lawyers, industry leaders, policymakers, and academics.

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  Emory University

  Jan 2024 - now

  Emory Friends of Music Alumni Board of Directors
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  The Pride Network

  Jun 2024 - now

  Transformative Leadership Initiative: Fellow

  - A year-long program offering unique leadership opportunities for emerging, LGBTQ+ leaders to create change within themselves and in their communities.- Social Impact Grant program designed to help create solutions and sustainably empower vulnerable communities through strategically investing resources and inspiring confidence in passionate LGBTQ+ youth leaders who want to contribute to transformational change in people, organizations, and communities.- Honing heart-centered leadership, a wisdom-based and science-informed methodology for high-impact leadership and self-discovery.- Proposed Project: Transformative Cuts, an initiative to provide free haircuts to the transgender and houseless communities, while providing blood pressure, blood glucose, and health screening opportunities in partnership with the affiliated health faculties of Yale University (Yale University Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health, in addition to the Physician Associate Program). Show less

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  Fulbright Association

  Jun 2024 - now

  Fulbright Association: Spain Interest Group Board of Directors

  As part of the Board of Directors for the Fulbright Spain Interest Group, I collaborate closely with the Fulbright Spain commission in Madrid, as well as the national office in Washington DC to connect alums living in the US and around the world to network and remain connected with the Spanish Fulbright community.