Health Policy Action Committee Gender & Sexuality Policy Coordinator
Term: 2025-2026
Team overview: Health Policy
The Health Policy (HP) team is responsible for developing AMSA’s policy positions and legislative agenda, for supporting policy-related programming and advocacy, and for promoting AMSA’s presence and visibility in policy-related efforts. The make-up of the Health Policy Team has been designed to cover issues that are addressed throughout AMSA’s Action Committees & Teams as well as campaigns.
Each policy coordinator provides policy-related expertise for corresponding Programming/Advocacy Coordinators. The policy coordinators are also encouraged to initiate policy-related programming and advocacy in collaboration with Programming/Advocacy Coordinators, as well as promote skills in policy- related advocacy in collaboration with the Advocacy Development Coordinator.
During the summer, the HP team will update AMSA’s legislative agenda for the upcoming year. This process will require the assistance of other national leaders and staff, a deep understanding of AMSA’s mission and principles, and knowledge of current policies and policy opportunities. A brief update report is encouraged halfway through the year.
The Health Policy Team will also participate in development and planning of Advocacy Day by contributing their expertise and legislative updates to the planning committee.
Position Description
Gender and Sexuality Policy Coordinators role as a national leader is but is not limited to assisting in the development of AMSA’s legislative agenda in the areas of Gender and Sexuality as well as contacting the Programming and Advocacy Coordinators of Gender and Sexuality to update or provide resource that they seek. As a Gender and Sexuality Coordinator you will collaborate with the rest of the Health Policy team to research policies and determine if it falls within AMSA beliefs, if it does then you may continue to further pass the information to the Programming/Advocacy Coordinators to finally reaching Membership, if it is not in AMSA’s beliefs then a proposal may be written and presented at The House of Delegates at National Convention to be voted on.
Note that the Programming Coordinators and Advocacy Coordinators will remain under the direction of their respective Chair. As a national Policy Coordinator, the Gender & Sexuality Policy Coordinator will fulfill the duties of a national Policy coordinator as described further below.
