Suttlepoints
Transforming Lived Experience into Leadership, Strategy, and Systems Change
Suttlepoints is a curated resource hub connecting analysis, lived experience, advocacy tools, and strategic insight across public health, policy, and community-based work. It is where ideas, practice, and purpose meet—designed to support learning, reflection, and action.
The Hub is organized by function, not chronology. Writing, media, and resources are grouped according to how they are meant to be used—whether to document lived experience, build leadership capacity, inform policy strategy, or support ethical public health practice.
The Five Pillars
The Hub organizes content across five core pillars:
Ending HIV Criminalization
Policy- and systems-focused resources examining HIV criminalization as a legal and public health failure, and outlining pathways for reform.
Public Health & Human Rights
Analysis exploring how law, health, and human rights intersect—centering institutional responsibility, equity, and accountability.
Leadership & Capacity Building
Trainings, tools, frameworks, and coalition-building resources designed to equip advocates, practitioners, and leaders to act within systems.
Storytelling & Media
Archived narratives, interviews, and reflections that document lived experience and movement history. These materials are preserved as record, not requirement.
Higher Education & Mentorship
Teaching, learning, and leadership development work connected to higher education and mentorship, growing intentionally over time.
Across all five pillars, the Hub reflects my commitment to translating lived experience into practical insight—supporting strategy, leadership, and more ethical public health responses without relying on repeated personal disclosure.
Leadership Forum: Native Son Black Gay Leadership Forum 2023 — Creating Change in a Changing World
A leadership forum examining how Black gay leaders navigate change, build power, and advance justice in shifting social and political conditions.
Podcast Episode (No. 5): “Is It a Crime?” From Zero Hour: A Global Conversation on Health and HIV
A global health podcast episode examining whether HIV criminalization aligns with science, public health goals, and equity.
Federal Roundtable: HIV is Not a Crime — Legal, Health & Equity Considerations
A federal public health roundtable examining HIV criminalization through legal, health, and equity lenses to support evidence-based systems reform.
Podcast Episode: HIV is not a crime - From HIV Unmuted Produced by International AIDS Society
A global podcast episode documenting how HIV criminalization has reshaped lives across different countries and legal systems.
Policy Roundtable: Revolutionary Health Live — HIV Criminalization (Part II)
A continuation of an interdisciplinary policy discussion examining HIV criminalization through legal, public health, and equity frameworks.
Policy Roundtable: Revolutionary Health Live — HIV Criminalization (Part I)
A multi-disciplinary roundtable examining HIV criminalization through legal, public health, and equity frameworks to support evidence-based reform.
Video Interview: Revolutionary Health Live - Robert Suttle on HIV Decriminalization
A public health conversation that frames HIV decriminalization as a necessary systems reform grounded in science, equity, and human rights.
Conference Talk: Influence Nation Summit 2019 — Opening Speaker Robert Suttle “Change is a Marathon, Not a Sprint”
A leadership conversation on sustaining social justice work over time—framing change as a marathon that requires strategy, resilience, and collective accountability.
A Declaration of Liberation: Building a Racially Just and Strategic Domestic HIV Movement
A foundational declaration asserting that effective HIV responses must be rooted in racial justice, collective accountability, and the dismantling of white supremacy.

