Global Health Action Committee Chair
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 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 GS Chair is responsible for leading the GS Action Committee’s programming and advocacy efforts in issues of gender and sexuality. The GS Chair will lead and collaborate with other members of the committee, including the GS LGBTQ+ Programming Coordinator, GS LGBTQ+ Advocacy Coordinator, GS Women’s Programming Coordinator, and GS Women’s Advocacy Coordinator. (see separate descriptions).
