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health-oriented student organizations

groups with a specific focus in one of these areas - click on link for full list.

groups with a broader view and approach on health sciences - click on link for full list.

groups that can’t fit into any category – the health oriented special interests groups are the following:

  1. -Committee on Eating Disorder Awareness (CEDA)

  2. -American Red Cross Club at UW

  3. -Body and Brain Club

  4. -American Cancer Society - University of Washing (ACSUW)

Below is information about health-oriented RSOs that are active in the Consortium. Please feel free to contact any of us for further information! We are all looking for ways to further engage the community.


At the bottom, you will also find links to directories organized by the Student Activities Office. It is a list of the current registered student organizations (RSO) with a health focus. These RSOs are further subdivided into categories. For a complete list of all RSOs found at the University of Washington, visit the Student Activities Office website by clicking here.

The SHC  |  Get Involved  |  RSOs  |  Events  |  Resources  |  Links  |  The Forum  |  ContactSHC_Overview.htmlSHC_Get_Involved.htmlSHC_Events.htmlSHC_Resources.htmlSHC_Links.htmlhttps://catalysttools.washington.edu/gopost/board/asuwshc/13995/SHC_Contact.htmlshapeimage_10_link_0shapeimage_10_link_1shapeimage_10_link_2shapeimage_10_link_3shapeimage_10_link_4shapeimage_10_link_5shapeimage_10_link_6shapeimage_10_link_7
UW MAPS
Minority Association of Pre-Health Students (MAPS)
Our Mission: MAPS at the University of Washington is dedicated to helping underrepresented individuals realize their potential in health fields. Through our community service, we are committed to promoting and enhancing health among minorities, which enables us to educate ourselves so we can better address health concerns.
General concerns: mapsuw@u.washington.edu 
President: Alisha Wang
Website: http://www.students.washington.edu/mapsuw
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Alpha Epsilon Delta
Our mission: Alpha Epsilon Delta is the National Health Preprofessional Honor Society dedicated to the encouragement and recognition of excellence in preprofessional health scholarship, including medicine, dentistry, veterinary, and others. The Society welcomes ALL students engaged in the pursuit of a professional healthcare career. AED offers opportunities for intellectual and professional development, provides a forum for students with common interests, and extends a program of service to benefit the college/university community.
Contact: aed@uw.edu 
Website: http://students.washington.edu/aed/ 
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Husky EMS
Our aim is to bring attention to the issues of sudden illness and emergency response on campus.  We are especially committed to training students to respond in an autonomous and effective manner to sudden medical emergencies on campus. We are also actively working to create volunteer opportunities for students to serve the university community as part of a campus emergency response program.
Contact: huskyems@u.washington.edu 
Website: http://students.washington.edu/huskyems/ 
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Food Group
Raising nutritional awareness at the University of Washington and the greater Seattle Area
Contact:  foodgrp@uw.edu
Website: http://students.washington.edu/foodgrp/mailto:foodgrp@uw.eduhttp://students.washington.edu/foodgrp/shapeimage_14_link_0shapeimage_14_link_1
Students in the Community
Students in the Community is an interprofessional group of students at the University of Washington. We maintain the SITC-Aloha Health Outreach Center at Aloha Inn, a transitional housing facility for the homeless in King County. We also organize Patient Education and Health Promotion events and programs (at Aloha Inn, Women's Resource Center, and Urban Reststop), and Student Education and Advocacy opportunities (on campus and throughout the community). We welcome all UW students to participate in patient education, health promotion, student education and advocacy.
Contact: uwsitc@u.washington.edu 
Website: http://depts.washington.edu/uwsitc/index.htm 
http://depts.washington.edu/uwsitc/index.php?title=SITC-Aloha_Health_Outreach_Centerhttp://www.alohainn.org/http://depts.washington.edu/uwsitc/index.php?title=Patient_Education_and_Health_Promotionhttp://depts.washington.edu/uwsitc/index.php?title=Student_Education_and_Advocacyhttp://depts.washington.edu/uwsitc/index.php?title=Student_Education_and_Advocacymailto:uwsitc@u.washington.eduhttp://depts.washington.edu/uwsitc/index.htmshapeimage_16_link_0shapeimage_16_link_1shapeimage_16_link_2shapeimage_16_link_3shapeimage_16_link_4shapeimage_16_link_5shapeimage_16_link_6
Students for Equal Health
Students for Equal Health (SEH) is a nonprofit organization at the University of Washington in Seattle founded to work toward equality in health and well-being of people around the world. Our goal is the eradication of health disparities locally and globally through elimination of the political, economic, and social determinants of poor health. We aim to achieve this through individual empowerment and collective action. We recognize that inequalities in wealth and power deteriorate health in societies worldwide. We envision health equity as a principal measure of human progress and the foundation for a healthy, sustainable global society rooted in social justice. We intend to facilitate multidisciplinary collaboration between students, faculty, professionals, universities, and community organizations to work toward this end.

Contact: equalhealth@uw.edu
Website: http://www.uwseh.org

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AMSA
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, premedical students, interns, residents and post-MD/DO trainees; and advancing the profession of medicine.

Contact: uwamsapremed@gmail.com 
Website: http://amsauw.com/

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Vietnam Health Clinic
Vietnam Health Clinic (VHC) is a student-led, non-profit organization dedicated to improving health care services and access to the underserved population of Vietnam. The foundation of our organization's mission is based upon the belief of equal opportunity healthcare for all. In addition to providing high-quality health care to the impoverished and underserved, we aim to provide real-life experience to our student volunteers who are interested in various social work and health care professions. This project will give the volunteers opportunities to shadow healthcare professionals to learn the process of rural medicine and the basic healthcare system: from triage, to diagnosis, to treatment, and pharmacy consultation. In the process of fulfilling our goal, we hope to collaborate with local medical students and doctors in a joint effort to minimize health disparities in Vietnam.

Contact Info:
Vietnam Health Clinic
12009 78th Ave South
Seattle, WA 98178
Phone: 206.659.7497
Email: info@vnhealth.org
Website: www.vnhealth.orgmailto:info@vnhealth.orghttp://www.vnhealth.org/shapeimage_19_link_0shapeimage_19_link_1