UNIVERSITY COALITIONS for GLOBAL HEALTH

UCGH is a membership organization comprised of both National Member Organizations (NMOs) and campus organizers who work to promote collaboration on global health issues. Collaboratively, the members decide the objectives of UCGH and guide the direction of the global health student movement.

To learn more about our NMOs and campus organizers visit the “Join UCGH” section of the website.

Find out if UCGH is at your campus by viewing the Member Map.

National Member Organizations…

Advocates for Youth is dedicated to creating programs and advocating for policies that help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health. Advocates provides information, training, and strategic assistance to youth-serving organizations, policy makers, youth activists, and the media in the United States and the developing world.
Website: www.advocatesforyouth.org

The American Medical Student Association (AMSA), with a half-century history of medical student activism, is the oldest and largest independent association of physicians-in-training in the United States. Today, AMSA is a student-governed, national organization committed to representing the concerns of physicians-in-training. The American Medical Student Association is committed to improving health care and healthcare delivery to all people; promoting active improvement in medical education; involving its members in the social, moral and ethical obligations of the profession of medicine; assisting in the improvement and understanding of world health problems; contributing to the welfare of medical students, interns, residents and post-MD/DO trainees; and advancing the profession of medicine.
Website: www.amsa.org

Americans for Informed Democracy (AID) is a non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that brings the world home through programming on more than 1,000 U.S. university campuses and in more than 10 countries. AID fulfills its mission by coordinating town hall meetings on America’s role in the world, hosting leadership retreats, and publishing opinion pieces and reports on issues of global importance. Website: www.aidemocracy.org

Globe Med connects the assets of a student-led network to local health organizations working in communities around the world. By inspiring and training university students to mobilize resources for global health, we seek to build a movement fighting for a more sustainable and secure world.
Website: www.globemed.org

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) mobilizes health professionals to advance health, dignity, and justice and promotes the right to health for all. The goal of PHR’s Student Program is to advance health professional students’ understanding and lifelong investment in health and human rights activism, and to cultivate their unique contributions as advocates promoting health and human rights locally, nationally and globally.
Website: www.physiciansforhumanrights.org/students

Students Partnership Worldwide (SPW) is an established youth-led non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to making young people central to the development process. Founded in 1985, SPW currently recruits just under 1000 volunteers (aged 18-28) each year to work on targeted health & environmental education programs in rural India, Nepal, Sierra Leone, South, Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia & Zimbabwe. Programs last between 5 and 12 months. Uniquely, 85% of SPW’s volunteers are young African & Asian volunteers leading development in their own countries. These volunteers live and work alongside a number of international volunteers recruited primarily from North America, Europe and Australia.
Website: www.spw-usa.org

Universities Allied for Essential Medicines has a two-fold mission: (1) to determine how universities can help ensure that biomedical end products, such as drugs, are made more accessible in poor countries and (2) to increase the amount of research conducted on neglected diseases, or those diseases predominantly affecting people who are too poor to constitute a market attractive to private-sector R&D investment. UAEM currently works with student and faculty groups across the US, Europe and Canada to coordinate efforts to improve the research, licensing and patenting decisions of universities.
Website: www.essentialmedicine.org