Student Advocacy

About the Program

Goals and Objectives

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.  

To achieve this goal, the Student Program’s objectives are to:

• Advance a global understanding of health and human rights amongst health professional students and health-related institutions
• Work with students to provide educational opportunities on a range of PHR’s issues
• Organize and link campus chapters to local, national and international policy debates and campaigns
• Promote student skill development and activism on key health and human rights issues
• Support and strengthen PHR student chapters’ capacity to become effective health and human rights activists