Doctors listen to an infant patient's heart and lungs

Homeless & Indigent Population Health Outreach Project

Bridging medical education and community needs in New Brunswick for over 30 years.

The Community is Our Classroom

The Homeless and Indigent Population Health Outreach Project (HIPHOP) is focused on providing healthcare professional students opportunities to empower our future patients and/or underserved populations. Our programs range from shadowing at clinics to teaching high school students about HIV prevention, mentoring and tutoring and much more. The common link for all our programs is that they allow us to reach out to the community, learn from the community, and provide much-needed services.

HIPHOP: Community Health Initiative

HIPHOP Community Health Initiative is a community service student-run program through collaborative community partnerships and supervised by Robert Wood Johnson Medical School that provides students with the opportunity to take part in service-learning activities and get involved with the Greater New Brunswick area.

Members of the HIPHOP Community Health Initiative host a "teddy bear clinic" at Rutgers Day

HIPHOP: Asylum Clinic

Our volunteer healthcare providers and student scribes at the HIPHOP Asylum Clinic assist with medical evaluations and documentation in support of asylum applications for victims of persecution from countries across the globe. Asylum seekers with legal representation and forensic medical affidavits are more than twice more likely to be granted asylum.

Exterior of the Eric B. Chandler Health Center in New Brunswick

HIPHOP: Promise Clinic

At the Promise Clinic, our student-doctors provide free primary care services to the clients of Elijah's Promise Soup Kitchen in New Brunswick. Our mission is to help empower our patients, many of whom are uninsured and have chronic conditions such as hypertension and diabetes, to live healthier lives.

A group of Promise Clinic steering committee members and student doctors in the clinic
Members of the HIPHOP Community Health Initiative host a "teddy bear clinic" at Rutgers Day
Exterior of the Eric B. Chandler Health Center in New Brunswick
A group of Promise Clinic steering committee members and student doctors in the clinic

Our Mission

To link educational experiences of medical students and health professional students with health-related needs of the Greater New Brunswick area while promoting healthy living practices and providing preventive health education, primary care, support and advocacy to underserved and indigent populations.

Leadership

Susan Giordano, BA

Program Director, Homeless & Indigent Population Health Outreach Project (HIPHOP) and Staff Council Vice Chair

Eric G. Jahn, MD

Senior Associate Dean for Community and Global Health and Associate Professor