Explore the list of Pre-Health Organizations registered under IHC! Register your club at the bottom of this page.
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Advocates for Healthy Aging
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Description: Advocates for Healthy Aging at USC is a volunteer organization aimed to enrich the lives of older adults at a retirement community. We aspire to promote wellness in all facets of life through the interactive programs and activities that our members lead and help in. If you'd like to work with and help older adults, learn from their life experiences, and develop intergenerational friendships, this is the org for you.
Email: advocates.healthyaging@gmail.co |
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Alpha Epsilon Delta
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Description: Alpha Epsilon Delta hopes to encourage and recognize excellence in premedical scholarship and to stimulate an appreciation of the importance of premedical education both in and outside of the classroom; to promote communication between medical and premedical students and educators; to provide a forum for students with common interests; and to use its resources to benefit health organizations, charities, and the community.
Email: aedusc@gmail.com Website: http://www.usc-aed.com/ |
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American Medical Women's Association
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Description: The USC AMWA Chapter aims to foster an enriching environment for the female pre-med students of USC. Our branch provides valuable opportunities and resources to educate and support our members through their pre-health journeys, including our mentorship program with the AMWA Chapter at USC Keck, discussions with guest speakers about life in medical school and as a healthcare professional, and monthly community volunteering opportunities.
Email: amwauscpremed@gmail.com National Website: https://www.amwa-doc.org/ Chapter Website: https://amwauscpremed.weebly.com/ |
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American Red Cross at USC
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Description: The American Red Cross at USC is a humanitarian organization dedicated to alleviating human suffering through emergency assistance, disaster relief, and disaster preparedness education. From hosting blood drives to teaching local middle school students CPR, we work together with the Los Angeles chapter to provide support to our local and national communities. With students across all majors, ARC USC welcomes you to join and advance our humanitarian effort!
Email: redcross@usc.edu Website: www.arcusc.org |
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Biology Club
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Description: Founded in 2017 by faculty in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Southern California, Biology Club aims to foster a sense of community among students who are studying biology at USC. We have since grown as an undergraduate-led organization with an executive board that's passionate about bringing a variety of fun and helpful events to the student body. All are welcome to join the email list!
Email: bioclub@usc.edu |
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Community Health Connection
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Description: Community Health Connection organizes and carries out health and resource fairs in South Central Los Angeles to bridge local communities to numerous health direct services, health education resources, and advocacy organizations.
Email: chcusc@usc.edu Website: https://usccommunityhealthconnection.weebly.com/ |
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Colleges Against Cancer
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Description: Colleges Against Cancer (CAC) partners with the American Cancer Society to bring the fight against cancer to the USC community. As a USC organization we work to create a supportive community among students. With ACS we work towards a cancer free world through fundraising and advocacy, including Relay for Life.
Email: collegesagainstcancerusc@gmail.com Website: www.relayforlife.org/uscca |
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Community Health Involvement Project
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Description: We are a club of students who have a passion for spreading health awareness to the community. By establishing long-lasting relationships with community centers such as recreational centers, after-school programs, churches, and health fairs, we aim to be an integrated part of the community’s public health programs. We provide important health services such as blood pressure, blood glucose, and basic health education. During COVID-19, we have been able to maintain our involvement with the community by starting and maintaining a community fridge, making and distributing health resource packets, and mailing K-12 students science experiments. Feel free to reach out with questions!
Email: uscchip@gmail.com Website: http://uscchip.weebly.com/ |
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Emergency Medical Services of USC (EMSC)
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Description: The Emergency Medical Services of the University of Southern California (EMSC) is a student organization that seeks to provide accessible pre-hospital care to Trojans and the USC community. We strive to augment the current emergency health care options at the University and create an opportunity for students to gain first-hand medical experience, serve their community, and develop critical leadership skills.
Email: emsc@usc.edu Website: https://www.uscemsc.org/join-emsc/ |
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GlobeMed at USC
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Description: GlobeMed is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering students in the movement for global health equity. Each of our 56 chapters partners with a unique grassroots NGO working on projects to improve the health and lives of the communities they are based in. GlobeMed at USC currently works with Spark Microgrants in Uganda, an incredible organization that promotes a model for development where local communities drive social change with the support of global development experts.
Email: usc@globemed.org |
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Health Sciences Education Program
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Description: HSEP is a teaching and outreach organization that seeks to educate K-12 students in the Los Angeles community on relevant health topics. Through discussing the biological basis for health and providing evidence-based preventive measures, HSEP encourages individuals to make educated choices. HSEP is committed to innovation in teaching, cultivation of scientific curiosity, and development of personal initiative in health and beyond.
Email: hsep@usc.edu Website: https://www.uschsep.com/ |
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HOSA at USC
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Description: HOSA at USC is an organization dedicated to helping pre-health students learn about the various facets of healthcare. This semester, we are planning to have speaker events to introduce students to professionals in fields such as audiology. We also help students prepare for the events at the leadership conference, which we will attend once things are in person again.
Email: hosausc@gmail.com |
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Kidney Disease Screening and Awareness Program (KDSAP)
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Description: USC KDSAP is a student-run organization that is dedicated to reducing the alarmingly high number of people who unknowingly suffer from Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). With the help of nephrologists from USC's Keck School of Medicine, USC KDSAP conducts free kidney health screenings and educational events in Los Angeles to waive these health disparities that our community faces. Members will gain community service and clinical experience.
Email: usckdsap@usc.edu Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/usckdsap/ |
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Latino Students in Medicine
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Description: Latino Students in Medicine works to mitigate the underrepresentation and increase the retention of Latinx students in healthcare careers. We provide our members with education, mentorship, and professional development through our programming, partnerships, and extended community. Members will become competitive applicants to graduate programs, develop a professional network, and be part of an inclusive community supporting their success.
Email: lsmusc@usc.edu Website: https://linktr.ee/lsmusc Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lsmusc/?hl=en |
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Medical, Educational Missions & Outreach at USC
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Description: M.E.M.O. (Medical, Educational Missions and Outreach) at USC is the 4th chapter of the nonprofit organization, M.E.M.O., with a mission to help the underprivileged communities locally, in Orange County, San Diego, Los Angeles, and abroad, in Vietnam. Throughout the year, we offer our MEMObers the opportunity to serve their local community, access to a variety of pre-health resources, and most importantly, a tight-knit family that will give unconditional support. Although the current circumstances are keeping us from having our annual mission trip to Vietnam where MEMObers get hands-on experience enacting long-lasting medical care and educational opportunities to the impoverished, we will be hosting plenty of events this upcoming semester that will definitely be worth checking out!
Email: uscmemo@gmail.com Website: https://uscmemo.wixsite.com/uscmemo Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/usc_memo/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/731635270899476/ |
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Mobile Clinic at USC
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Description: In a typical year, our team works with doctors from the Keck School of Medicine and the JWRCH Institute along with medical, OT, PA and pharmacy students to run free clinics at homeless shelters. We also visit these shelters twice a month to bond with the residents through fun seasonal activities and help escort patients from the shelter to their follow up medical appointments. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we will be focusing on health-based education and telehealth clinics.
Email: usc.mobileclinic.la@gmail.com Website: https://www.mobileclinicusc.org/ |
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Peer Health Exchange
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Description: Peer Health Exchange’s mission is to empower young people with the knowledge, skills, and resources to make healthy decisions. We do this by training college students to teach a skills-based health curriculum in under-resourced high schools across the country.
Email: usc@peerhealthexchange.org |
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Pre-Optometry Society at USC
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Description: Are you looking for leadership opportunities? Are you interested in joining the e-board for a newly-founded pre-health organization? Come check out the Pre-Optometry Society at USC! We are dedicated to introducing USC students to the field of optometry, as well as providing networking, volunteering, shadowing, and internship opportunities in eye care related fields. All is welcome regardless of your major or pre-professional interests!
Email: uscprop@gmail.com |
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Southern California Healthcare Outreach
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Description: Southern California Healthcare Outreach is a student-run organization that works to expand healthcare coverage in Los Angeles. We create and disseminate educational information about obtaining healthcare insurance, hold educational events, and directly assist with enrollment.
Email: schealthcareoutreach@gmail.com Website: www.schealthcareoutreach.wixsite.com/home |
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Student Gerontology and Medical Gerontology Associations
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Description: The clubs at the Leonard Davis School are unique opportunities for students to promote issues in aging not only within the Leonard Davis School but throughout the USC campus and surrounding Los Angeles community. We have a strong emphasis on working to promote the lives of older adults through philanthropic and volunteer initiatives.
Student Gerontology Email: uscsga@usc.edu Medical Gerontology Associations Email: medicalgerontologyassociation@gmail.com |
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USC American Lung Association
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Description: The USC American Lung Association fights for clean air and lung health through advocacy and education, both on USC campus and in the wider community.
Email: alacc.usc@gmail.com |
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USC Interaxon
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Description: Our mission is to promote STEM and higher education to students attending underserved K-12 schools in the Los Angeles area by providing interactive neuroscience and STEM-related lessons. Additionally, each semester we invite high school students to Neurocamp, an event typically held on campus where students gain hands-on experience as scientists through lab tours, dissections, panels, and lectures. This year, we plan to conduct lessons and Neurocamp virtually.
Email: usc.interaxon@gmail.com Website: https://uscinteraxon.weebly.com |
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USC MEDLIFE
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Description: MEDLIFE is a global organization focused on fostering a worldwide movement to help alleviate healthcare disparities endured by low-income families in developing nations all over the world. MEDLIFE has been able to do this by maintaining an emphasis on medicine, education, and development. Here at USC, the MEDLIFE chapter not only works with providing students with an opportunity to go abroad and help others, but also the opportunity to remind us of the assistance still needed back home in our Los Angeles community.
Email: uscmedlife@gmail.com Website: https://www.medlifemovement.org |
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USC Nursing and Physician Assistant Club
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Description: The USC NPA Organization provides information to pre-PA, pre-Nursing, and pre-NP students regarding their pathways and requirements for graduate programs to get them prepared for their exciting journey in healthcare! We also host guest speaker events with working healthcare professionals, giving our members great opportunities to ask all of their questions and learn first-hand about their future in the medical field. Along with informational meetings, our Executive Board members are always available to answer any questions and provide advice to all of our members regarding classes, volunteer opportunities, healthcare experience, and more!
Email: usc.npa@gmail.com |
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USC Pre-Physical Therapy Club
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Description: The USC Pre-Physical Therapy Club is a student-run organization dedicated to assisting undergraduate students with their career goals in the physical therapy profession. We strive to inform and raise awareness about the field through working alongside USC faculty and USC DPT students at the “#1 Physical Therapy School” in the nation. Students will have the opportunity to participate in many events/activities throughout the year including:
Email: uscpreptclub@gmail.com |
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Violence Intervention Volunteers
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Description: VIV is an organization that sends student volunteers to work at LAC+USC hospital’s Violence Intervention Program, also known as VIP! VIV works directly with the VIP Community Health Center, founded by Dr. Astrid Heger of Keck Medical Hospital, to help underserved communities in the LA/South Central areas. Through childcare, online tutoring, special events, and mentoring services, VIV helps VIP provide services to women and children who are victims of sexual and domestic violence, foster children, and individuals with mental disabilities. In addition to volunteering in the Mental Health Activity Center, volunteers can shadow in the VIP Urgent Care Clinic, where they can take vitals and help prep exam rooms.
Email: violenceinterventionvolunteers@gmail.com Website: https://violenceinterventionvolunteers.weebly.com |
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Vision for Vision
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Description: We are a non-profit, student-run, community service organization est. 2006. We are focused on health promotion of preventable eye diseases and provide eye health resources to underserved populations in the LA community. Partnered with USC Roski Eye Institute, we offer unique, hands-on clinical and shadowing opportunities for USC students.
Email: visionforvision@gmail.com Website: http://visionforvision.org/ |
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WorldMed@UPC
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Description: WorldMed@UPC is a health-based philanthropy organization with a sister chapter on the Health Sciences Campus (HSC). We aim to create a platform in which undergraduates, graduates, prospective students, faculty, and staff can discuss and eliminate existing critical health challenges.
Email: uscworldmed.upc@gmail.com |
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