Student Health Action Coalition - SHAC is the nation’s oldest student run health service, providing free acute care, screening, and referrals to patients in the Carrboro-Chapel Hill area. An unique aspect of SHAC is its comprehensive nature with students from all six UNC professional schools (medicine, dentistry, public health, pharmacy, nursing, social work) providing care.

Tiyatien Health - promotes equity in rural Liberia by advancing healthcare and the fundamental rights of the poor. Tiyatien’s HIV equity initiative, jointly run with the Ministry of Health, is Liberia’s first comprehensive community-based treatment program and seeks to determine how best to deliver high-quality HIV care in a post-conflict setting.

Veer Labs - embraces social entrepreneurship to develop low-cost, high-tech tools for global health. Current projects include a UV-LED based household water purifier, a cheap, portable flow cytometer, and a reagentless malaria diagnostic system.

Universities Allied for Essential Medicines - UAEM is an international coalition of student groups dedicated to making essential health technologies accessible to developing countries through three primary aims: 1) encouraging neglected disease research at universities 2) transforming the university technology transfer process through the use of access provisions in licenses 3) the use of humanitarian impact metrics to measure research success.

Dune Quotes - An effort dedicated to bringing the wisdom of Frank Herbert’s science fiction classics to the world. These quotes are elegant and eloquent commentaries on politics, psychology, religion, science, and sociology.



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