Delivered in partnership with EqualHealth, the Social Medicine Course is a transnational training programme offered across Uganda, Haiti, and the United States.
The course brings together health professional students, residents, graduates, and practitioners from Uganda, Haiti, and Minnesota (USA) into a shared learning space, equipping them with the knowledge, skills, and critical perspective to understand and address the social determinants of health.
Running from September to December 2026, the programme explores how social and structural determinants shape health outcomes while equipping participants with the skills to lead meaningful change. Through this model, we are building a global community of health professionals grounded in equity, collaboration, and action.
This is not a traditional classroom experience. It is an immersive, interdisciplinary learning journey that connects theory to real-world practice. Participants engage through community experiences, reflective dialogue, creative expression, and cross-cultural exchange, exploring how biological, social, economic, and political forces intersect to shape health outcomes.
We believe meaningful learning happens through the continuous interaction between reflection and action, enabling participants to critically analyze health systems and respond effectively to the communities they serve.
We center lived experience. Participants engage in critical self-reflection on identity, power, privilege, and their role in advancing health equity, understanding how their own stories connect to the systems they work within.
We foster collaboration across diverse backgrounds, disciplines, and geographies, building a community that drives innovative and just solutions to health challenges at local and global scales.
Participants enhance their ability to engage deeply with the structural forces shaping health, and emerge equipped to drive change in clinical, research, policy, and community settings.
The programme is open to health professional students in higher institutions who are passionate about advancing equitable healthcare systems and engaging in transformative global health work.
We welcome applicants from medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health, social work, and related disciplines who are committed to equity, justice, and community-centered care.
This course changed how I see patients, not just as cases, but as people shaped by systems and society. It has transformed how I practice and advocate.
Learning alongside peers from different countries helped me understand how global forces shape local realities. It gave me both perspective and purpose.
The 3Ps framework gave me a language to describe what I had always felt, that medicine without social awareness is incomplete.
The connections I made with students in Haiti and the US opened my eyes to the universality of health inequity, and the power of solidarity across borders.
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Health inequities persist not only because of limited resources, but because health systems often fail to address the social and structural drivers of disease. Poverty, geography, gender, race, and political exclusion all shape who gets sick, and who gets care.
By training health professionals to understand and respond to these realities, the programme contributes to stronger, more equitable health systems both locally and globally. Our work is part of a shared global effort to reimagine healthcare, one that requires continuous learning, collaboration, and action.
We are cultivating a growing network of health professionals who are applying social medicine principles across clinical care, public health, research, leadership, advocacy, and community engagement.
This course is proudly delivered in partnership with EqualHealth and a global network of educators, institutions, and health workers committed to advancing social medicine and health equity.
We welcome partners, educators, and institutions to join us in shaping a new generation of health professionals committed to equity and justice.