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Richa Gawande1, Keyona Aviles1, Julia Naganuma-Carreras1
1Richa Gawande, Jeffrey Thomas, Daphney Small, Zev Schuman-Olivier, and Paula Gardiner are with Cambridge Health Alliance, Malden, MA. Keyona Aviles, Julia Naganuma-Carreras, and Kalatauma Rosario are with Mandela Yoga Project, Cambridge, MA.
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Mandela Yoga Project aims to improve health outcomes and reduce costs for communities with lived experience of chronic illness and systemic racism. Codeveloped with diverse staff at a safety-net health center, the Mandela Yoga Group Medical Visit model was piloted (n = 32) in two five- to six-week groups for patients with multiple chronic conditions. We report qualitative and quantitative findings (reduced pain, increased belonging, healing relationships), and discuss systems alignment to scale this peer-led, trauma-informed, culturally resonant public health intervention. (Am J Public Health. 2026;116(S3): S138-S142. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2026.308594).
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