Health & Veritas Sudhakar Nuti: Bringing Healthcare to the Unhoused
Dec 4, 2025
Sudhakar Nuti, a street-medicine physician and population-health leader at NYC Health + Hospitals, shares his work bringing care directly to people experiencing homelessness. He discusses mobile clinics, trust-building through basic needs like food and hygiene kits, challenges of housing transitions, team resilience after patient loss, and training future clinicians to bridge privilege and empathy.
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Broad Research Ban Risks Scientific Decoupling
- The SAFE Research Act would ban federal funding to U.S. researchers with many forms of ties to China, retroactive for five years.
- Harlan warns this blunt approach risks isolating U.S. science and harming long-term research cooperation.
From Section 8 To Street Medicine
- Sudhakar Nuti grew up in Section 8 housing and relied on his mother working multiple jobs to keep them afloat.
- He connects deeply with patients experiencing homelessness because he sees his own childhood reflected in their stories.
Scale And Funding Fragility
- NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest public health care system in the U.S. and served ~70,000 people experiencing homelessness last year.
- Homeless healthcare funding is a patchwork of city, state, federal, value-based contracts and philanthropy, making programs hard to sustain.