Partners In Health Engage

Our Mission:

“Partners in Health Engage @ Yale - a student organization” is dedicated to achieving the goal of the greater Partner in Health Engage network: to mobilize students to build a movement for the universal right to health. We are committed to advocating for global and domestic policies that further the right to health, educating our communities through discussion and lectures, and fundraising to strengthen public health systems.

Our Activities:

Harvard-Yale Event
Advocacy, or Activism
An event to connect students from our Yale PIH Engage chapter with students from the Harvard chapter. Conversations at this event will focus on strategizing ways to further each chapter's impact both locally and abroad.

Letter to the Editor Write-In
Advocacy, or Activism
Advocacy is a significant component of our mission as a chapter. The letter to editor write-in is one of the many advocacy events that will enable students to learn about global health efforts and educate the Yale and New Haven communities. The write-in will also provide students guidance on how to publish their opinions in a public forum

Global Health Professor Panel with YSPH
Advocacy, or Activism
Our global health professor panel will be in partnership with experts at the Yale School of Public Health. We look forward to inviting professors to share their work and opinions on global health efforts at Yale and abroad.

Letter to the Editor Write-In
Advocacy, or Activism
Advocacy is a significant component of our mission as a chapter. The letter to editor write-in is one of the many advoacy events that will enable students to learn about global health efforts and eduate the Yale and New Haven communities. The write-in will also provide students guidance on how to publish their opinon in a public forum

Advocacy Call-a-thon
Advocacy, or Activism
Through a call-a-thon, we will actively reach out to Members of Congress Offices, with the intention of scheduling in-person meetings with them. This event is the perfect stepping-stone after our email-writing session which we held in the fall.

Global Health Professor Panel with YSPH
Advocacy, or Activism
Our global health professor panel will be in partnership with experts at the Yale School of Public Health. We look forward to inviting professors to share their work and opinons on global health efforts at Yale and abroad.

Global Health "Speed Dating"
Advocacy, or Activism
This event falls under our Education & Team Building committee, and we hope to foster a sense of bonding and community within our chapter and the greater Yale community.

Workshop with alumna Anita Wu (‘03, ‘06 JD)
Advocacy, or Activism
Ms. Wu will coach us on oral advocacy, community-building, fundraising, etc., all areas of expertise. We would love to hold this workshop with other PIH Engage Chapters in the area.

Meeting with Representative DeLauro
Advocacy, or Activism
We look forward to meeting with Representative DeLauro in the New Haven office to advocate for legislation including the Community Healthcare Workers Act as well as the Paul Farmer Memorial Resolution

First Informational Meeting
Advocacy, or Activism
New members will receive an overview of PIH Engage, goals for the semester, our alignment with the overall network, some plans for this year, and leadership roles.

PIH Engage: Global Day of Action
Advocacy, or Activism
Bending the Arc Screening. Bending the Arc tells the story of Dr. Paul Farmer's vision to begin a movement that would change global health forever.

Crash Course Party
Advocacy, or Activism
The PIH Engage Crash Course provides a comprehensive curriculum to students on global health advocacy and action. Topics range from DEI to global citizenship.

Global Health & Cookies: Cross Campus Bake Sale
Fundraising
Global Health and Cookies will be a fun event that provides both an opportunity for fundraising and education. We are excited to share the importance of the right to global health with fellow students and community members.

Giving Tuesday Fundraising
Fundraising
Giving Tuesday is a national campaign aimed at grassroots fundraising. Chapter members will have the opprotunity to reach out to their local communities and share information about supporting global health.

Valentine's Day Candy Gram Fundraiser
Fundraising
We will fundraise in line with PIHE's campaign for this year, which is supporting the Maternal Center of Excellence (MCOE) in Sierra Leone. To execute this fundraiser, we will encourage Yale community members to send "candy grams" to their friends and peers, charging them a few dollars for this service. All of the proceeds will go toward the MCOE.

Pieing Fundraiser
Fundraising
A volunteer will agree to be the "target" and Yale community members will have the chance to pay $4 to "pie" the target. All proceeds will go to the Maternal Center of Excellence.

Global Health & Cookies: Cross Campus Bake Sale
Fundraising
Global health and cookies will be a fun event that provides both an opprotunity for fundraising and education. We are excited to share the importance of the right to global health with fellow students and community members.

Fun Run for the Maternal Health Center of Excellence
Fundraising
This Fun Run will hopefully receive much enthusiasm, as it will take place in the spring once the weather has improvd! We hope to raise money for the Maternal Center of Excellence. We plan to charge $20 per race participant.

Student Leaders:

Danielle Frankel - Co-Coordinator/Co-President Lilia Potter-Schwartz - Co-Coordinator/Co-President