Resources and Opportunities

UW Links:

Webpost Discuss SEH issues with other officers, members, and interested UW students.

AED Alpha Epsilon Delta, UW premedical honors society. 

MAPS Minority Association of Pre-Health Students.  Annual winter quarter conference.

LMSA Latino Medial Student Association

MARCH Multiethnic Alliance for Research and Community Health

SAAN Students AIDS Action Network

DASA Disability Advocacy Student Alliance

Resources:

• Association of Physicians for the Underserved: http://www.clinicians.org/
• Centre for Social Justice: http://www.socialjustice.org/
• Doctors for Global Health: http://www.dghonline.org/
• The Nation (unconventional news): http://www.thenation.com/
• People’s Health Movement (campaign for equal access to healthcare): http://www.phmovement.org/
• Physicians for Social Responsibility (advocating for public policies that promote the protection of human health) http://www.psr.org/
• Social Medicine Portal (promote collaboration of multi-disciplinary health professionals committed to social justice and health activism) http://www.socialmedicine.org/
• Human Rights Watch (up-to-date resource for global human rights issues):  http://hrw.org
• Global Health Resource Center at the UW (be sure to check out databases and opportunities section!) :http://depts.washington.edu/ghrc/index.html
• DiversityRx (Promoting language and cultural competence to improve the quality of health care for minority, immigrant, and ethnically diverse communities)  http://www.diversityrx.org
• Cross-Cultural Health Care Program (Seattle-based group addressing broad cultural issues that impact the health of individuals and families in ethnic minority communities): http://www.xculture.org/
• Global Health Watch: http://www.ghwatch.org/
• Healthy Documents (source of important health documents)  http://www.healthydocuments.info/
• Meet the World:  http://www.brazilianartists.net/home/flags/

 Global Opportunities:

• Volunteer Abroad (Comprehensive database for international service opportunities in a variety of disciplines): http://www.volunteerabroad.com/search.cfm
• International Service Learning (ISL—2 and 3 week opportunities for pre-health professions students to work in rural clinics in Central America and Africa) http://islonline.org

Local Opportunities:

• RESULTS Seattle (purpose of RESULTS Seattle is to create and empower strong voices in the community and in Congress to create the political will to end hunger and poverty and make the children of the world the highest priority of governments): http://www.resultsseattle.org/
• SEAMAR Community Health Clinics: http://www.seamar.org/
• Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic: http://www.seattlechildrens.org/our_services/regional_services/odessa_brown/
• Seattle Indian Health Board: http://www.sihb.org/
• Health Care Alternative Spring Break: http://students.washington.edu/hcasb/index.php
• Lifelong AIDS Alliance: http://www.lifelongaidsalliance.org/
• Community HealthCorps (dedicated to expanding access to culturally appropriate preventative and primary healthcare to medically underserved populations; long-term full-time and part-time service opportunities):  http://nachc.org

 Suggested Reading List:

• Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health by Laurie Garrett
• America’s Health Care Safety Net: Intact but Endangered - IOM
• Relief for the Body, Renewal for the Soul - G. Scott Morris
• Policy and Politics in Nursing and Health Care (4th Edition) - By Diana J. Mason
• Changing the U.S. Health Care System: Key Issues in Health Services Policy and Management - By Ronald M. Anderson
• Excruciating History of Dentistry: Toothsome Tales & Oral Oddities from Babylon to Braces - By James Wynbrandt
• The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow - By John C. Maxwell
• Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues, Updated Edition with a New Preface - By Paul Farmer
• Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor - By Jim Yong Kim
• Unequal Treatment:  Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare- IOM, 2002 (http://www.iom.edu/?id=16740)
• Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World- Tracy Kidder