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The Family Van, Harvard Medical School's local health clinic co-founded by Echoing Green’s President Cheryl Dorsey, has offered free counseling and tests for seventeen years to residents in Boston's low-income neighborhoods. According to the journal, BMC Medicine, a team of researchers at Harvard University studying the Family Van have found that preventive care offers an astounding economic return on investment.

We always knew that Echoing Green Fellows had strong points of view, but recently, they’ve been spreading the word. Two fellows were in the news in the past week with opinion articles in the New York Times and the Huffington Post.