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We'd like to invite you to attend our weekly meeting to learn a little more about potential involvement. The meetings will be:
Every Wednesday at 6:30-7:30pm in Thompson 202.
about us:
UW Students for Equal Health (SEH) is a coalition of dedicated students founded to address health disparities and advocate for diversity within the health professions in hopes of bridging the healthcare gap. Diversity is characterized by race, class, gender, disability, sexual orientation, and immigration status.
mission statement:
The University of Washington’s Students for Equal Health (SEH) is a coalition of dedicated undergraduates founded to address health disparities. We believe that health depends largely on social, economic, and political factors. Our goal is to address global and local health inequalities from a multidisciplinary context. We maintain that all projects toward social justice are part of an interrelated and unified effort. Our philosophy rests on leadership, empowerment, and community impact. We strive to empower ourselves and others through education and pursue social change through community participation. We understand that our growing awareness of health disparities requires a commitment to articulate, collaborate, and sustain just solutions. Our vision involves taking action in our local community as well as in the world as a whole.
The scope of Students for Equal Health’s work is twofold: education and action. Through educational efforts, we aspire to raise awareness to critical social justice issues on campus and in our local community. While the 35,000 undergraduate and graduate students on the University of Washington campus are our target audience, we are also accessible to local high school students and the broader Seattle population. Knowledge and dissemination are foundational to our organization’s philosophy. By supporting the awareness of crucial health issues, we hope to give ourselves and others the empowerment needed to make positive contributions to our campus, community, and globe. With our social consciousness in mind, the other keystone to Students for Equal Health is taking action in our community. We strive to become agents of positive change by volunteering against hunger and homelessness. Currently, we hope to establish a more intimate relationship with a local organization to work together against social injustices.
our logo:
The stylized feather is a reference to the ancient Egyptian hieroglyph for ma'at. Ma'at was a principle approximated by the modern designations of "good" or "right" order, justice, and balance. To exhibit ma'at was to uphold and honor the delicate balance of nature, the social order, and even the divinities. Upon successful navigation and entry to the netherworld, a deceased's heart was weighed against a feather of the goddess ma'at to ascertain the worthiness of the individual. The principle of ma'at correlates with the aims of this group both symbolically and literally, for we are striving to ensure that future health professionals have the awareness and tools to promote a rightful, just, and balanced approach to health with both their patients and their peers.