Reclaiming
the Narrative
What if the key to our nation’s health isn’t in hospitals or prescriptions, but in the systems that allow us to care for one another?
Our Mission
Health shapes how we live, learn, and survive — yet too often it’s discussed far from the people it affects. The Tande Project translates public health from academic and institutional spaces into human stories. Through conversation and community-centered outreach, we help people turn knowledge into action.
Reclaiming Public Health
A founding reflection from The Tande Project: This first piece explains how public health has drifted away from everyday life — and why reconnecting knowledge, access, and community is essential to our shared future. It marks the beginning of The Tande Project and the conversations that will follow.
Olugbenga G. Ogedegbe, MD, MPH
“Your zip code can determine your life expectancy more than your genetic code ever will.”
Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH
"Medical care creates only 20% of a population’s health, the rest comes from the systems and environments that shape our daily lives."
Samuel Kelton Roberts, Jr., PhD
"Getting a diagnosis means virtually nothing if you don't have the ability to be apart of the market”
Our Initiatives
The Tande Project was created in response to a simple, yet lingering feeling that the systems shaping our health are often invisible to the very people they affect. Too often, public health knowledge stays locked in classrooms, journals, and institutions.
Here, we believe that meaningful change starts with a conversation—the kind that breaks down complex ideas, invites lived experience, and makes public health something we all can engage with.