Gender & Sexuality Action Committee Sexual Health Coordinator
Term: 2025-2026
Action Committee overview: Gender & Sexuality
The Gender & Sexuality (GS) Action Committee is responsible for executing AMSA’s programming and advocacy efforts in issues of gender & sexuality by (1) ensuring equal access within health care and within medical education for women and for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex (LGBTQ+) persons, and (2) supporting the training of medical students to become excellent health care providers for women and for LGBTQ+ persons. Toward these goals, the GS Action Committee advocates for policies that will improve the health or health care access for everyone including LGBTQ+ persons, and develops programming that will improve the training of medical students in the care of women and LGBTQ+ patients. Additionally, GS supports all women, LGBTQ+, and ally medical students by fostering a safe and inclusive environment, providing leadership opportunities, and advocating for their rights.
Women’s issues include but are not limited to reproductive health and rights, sexual health, intimate partner violence, sexual assault, representation of gender in research, disparities in health between men and women, and promoting and recognizing women in medicine. LGBTQ+ issues include but are not limited to a need for medical education reform, sexual health, healthy relationships, trauma-informed care, structural and physical violence against LGBTQ+ community, marriage and adoption equality with regard to patient rights, intimate partner violence, disparities in health within the queer and intersex community, promoting and recognizing LGBTQ+ people in medicine, and inclusion and equitable access in health care.
Position description
The Sexual Health Coordinator is responsible for executing AMSA’s programming efforts in issues of women’s health and women in medicine. Women’s issues include—but are not limited to—reproductive health and rights, sexual health, intimate partner violence, disparities in health between men and women, and promoting and recognizing women in medicine.
Additionally, as a part of the G&S committee, the Sexual Health Coordinator will also work with the LGBTQ+ Programming and Advocacy Coordinators on programming to ensure committee efforts and the projects worked on are inclusive of issues involving women and LGBTQ+.
In addition to the duties and responsibilities of all Coordinators (defined below), the Women’s Advocacy Coordinator will be responsible for:
- Collaboration with the G&S Committee and AMSA staff and other national leaders on the planning and execution of Women Leaders in Medicine award nominations, selection, and reception.
- Regular contact, consultation, and collaboration with the leaders of the Sexual Health Leadership Course.
- Coordinating with the American Medical Women’s Association and Physicians for Reproductive Health in education efforts.
- Continued development of a “white coat card” for women’s health topics.
