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EQUALHEALTH IS DEDICATED TO THE PURSUIT OF HEALTH EQUITY FOR ALL THROUGH CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND MOVEMENT BUILDING.

EqualHealth is a global community of health professionals, educators, and activists dedicated to the fight for health equity which transcends borders.
We bring together the strength and vision of organizations with their own histories and paths united by a shared commitment to building a global movement of social medicine educators and practitioners tackling health inequity in their institutions and in broader society.

OUR HISTORIES UNITED

2010 - SocMed offered its first 4-week social medicine immersion course in Gulu, Uganda.

2010 - EqualHealth (as Physicians for Haiti) held its first meetings in the days after Haiti’s devastating earthquake. Physicians for Haiti established a training partnership with the Fleming Class, Haitian medical students who worked to complete their studies following the destruction of the state medical school in Port-au-Prince.

2011 - EqualHealth began our work following the devastating earthquake which left a decimated clinical education system that we hoped to help strengthen.

2011- SocMed  formed as a non-profit developing curricula and implementing training that engages with the social determinants of health to inspire a lifetime of personal commitment and action aiming for health equity. Programs are based in Minneapolis, MN and Gulu, Uganda.

2013 - EqualHealth held its first social medicine course in Haiti, based on the SocMed Uganda course.

2015 - The Social Medicine Consortium (SMC) was envisioned among friends and colleagues to achieve health equity by constructing systems that demand justice, recognize our global interconnectedness, and support the next generation of health professionals to organize and act.  
After 5 years of education focus, EQH and SocMed committed our collective efforts to action and praxis going forward.

2015 - Social Medicine Alumni of Haiti, a vibrant activist group, was formed by graduates of EqualHealth’s annual Social Medicine course.

2016 - Social Medicine Consortium launched its first Conference, Reimagining Social Medicine, in the Twin Cities, MN.

2018 - The SMC Campaign Against Racism is launched with over 350 members from around the world together in Churchrock, New Mexico.

2020 - A unified EqualHealth is launched, bringing together the histories, visions and commitment of our founding organization.