Intersectional advocacy and education surrounding social issues affecting healthcare, medicine, and public health. We seek to provide resources through education, social media, and infographics, while promoting advocacy skills in writing, outreach, and fundraising. Our goal is to promote advocacy and empower others to analyze healthcare through the lens of intersectionality in order to make it more accessible and equitable.
Time Commitment: 2-3 hours/week
Organization Size: 100
AIM has weekly 1.5 hour long meetings on Tuesdays. AIM has five committees: Education, Fundraising, Graphics, Outreach, and Social Media. Each member is sorted into one of the five committees based on their application, each with their respective tasks and focuses that further AIM’s missions and goals. Members also have the chance to join our podcast team, regardless of which committee they are in.
Our organization is the first and only UCLA pre-health organization that centers intersectionality in discussions of medicine and healthcare. Although we are a pre-health organization, members do not have to be pre-health or pre-med to apply and learn more about the mission of equitable healthcare through intersectionality. At AIM, we believe that awareness and education on social factors, whether they directly or indirectly relate to healthcare and medicine, are pre-requisites to practicing and advocating for equity in medicine.
General meetings are typically presentation style, and can also include joint presentations with other organizations, guest speaker events, and other discussion based forums. We discuss important social issues affecting healthcare that are typically not thought of or discussed.