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

American Public Health Association (APHA), International Health Section, was founded in 1976 to provide leadership and a focus on international public health issues within APHA. It is one of 25 discipline-based sections. Sections are the basic organizational unit of APHA. The Section is earning a reputation as an active community of international health professionals engaged in networking, policy development, and sharing scientific knowledge and experience with peers as well as increasingly in advocacy and public education. We are building relationships with other sections to promote global health throughout APHA.
Website: www.apha-ih.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

The Global Health Council is the world’s largest membership alliance dedicated to advancing policies and programs that improve health around the world. In achieving this goal, the Council’s University Program seeks to engage universities and students in the broader global health policy dialogue and increase global health literacy and action on campuses and in communities.
Website: www.globalhealth.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

GYCA is a youth-led, UNAIDS and UNFPA supported alliance of over 3000 young leaders and adult allies working on youth and HIV/AIDS in 150 countries world-wide. It was proposed by youth worldwide, including the youth attendees of the XV International AIDS Conference in Bangkok 2004 and XIV International AIDS Conference in Barcelona 2002. GYCA empowers young leaders with the skills, knowledge, resources and opportunities they need to scale up HIV/AIDS interventions amongst their peers.
Website: www.youthaidscoalition.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

The Student Campaign for Child Survival (SCCS) is a national advocacy movement that works with students across the country to raise awareness and promote better policies regarding child survival as part of a broader global justice agenda. SCCS envisions a world where all children are given a healthy start to life, where all children have access to medical services, are provided with basic education and guaranteed their fundamental human rights. It is a world where a basic respect for our children ensures that they will not be deprived of their innocence as a result of war, internal conflict, disease, discrimination, debt, trade policies, and lack of resources or politics that perpetuate injustice.
Website: www.supportchildsurvival.org

The Student Global AIDS Campaign (SGAC) is a national movement with more than 85 chapters at high schools, colleges, and universities across the United States committed to bringing an end to AIDS in the U.S. and around the world through education, informed advocacy, media work, and direct action. With 42 million people infected with HIV/AIDS around the world we need effective and science-based prevention programs and inexpensive, life-saving AIDS medications. In order to accomplish these things, SGAC demands access to treatment, complete funding of the U.S. share of the global HIV/AIDS need, full funding of domestic AIDS programs, comprehensive prevention programs, and debt cancellation.
Website: www.fightglobalaids.org

The Student National Medical Association (SNMA) is the nation’s oldest and largest independent, student-run organization focused on the needs and concerns of medical students of color. SNMA is dedicated both to ensuring culturally sensitive medical education and services, as well as increasing the number of African-American, Latino and other students of color entering and completing medical school.
Website: www.snma.org

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

Students for Microbicides (S4M) , is a new student advocacy organization affiliated with the Global Campaign for Microbicides. S4M mobilizes students from all disciplines and from all parts of the world to advocate for the development of a safe and effective microbicide.
Website: www.global-campaign.org/s4m.htm

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

UNICEF Campus Initiative is a growing grassroots movement that affirms the power of college students to make a difference in the life of a child. UNICEF Campus Groups are present in at least 27 states around the nation promoting campus-wide education, advocacy and fundraising for UNICEF. For nearly 60 years, UNICEF has been the world’s leader for children, helping them to survive and thrive, from early childhood and through adolescence to healthy adulthood. Currently working in 158 countries and territories, UNICEF aims to ensure the survival, protection, and healthy development of children around the globe.
Website: www.unicefusa.org

Our Partners and Affiliates…

Acting on AIDS is a broad network of groups on college campuses formed by Christian college students that seek to change hearts on campus, create awareness in communities, and advocate for those affected by the global AIDS pandemic.
Website: www.worldvision.org/aoa.nsf/aids/home

YouthAIDS, an education and prevention initiative of PSI, uses media, pop culture, music, theatre and sport to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS and reach 600 million young people in more than 60 countries with life-saving messages, products, services and care.
Website: www.youthaids.org