About Us

The DePaul Organization for Intersectional Health, provides students interested in medicine, health and wellness at DePaul a space and opportunity to engage in scientific discourse with a social justice lens. The DePaul Organization for Intersectional Health is an organization focused on addressing current issues of equity and justice within health, medicine, and wellness. In addition, we will discuss the role that medicine and science has to play in combating current health inequities and disparities. Our goal is to increase awareness and sensitivity surrounding issues of inequity in healthcare to create more well rounded future health professionals, capable of creating positive change. DePaul places an emphasis on diversity, inclusion, social justice, and community involvement. The DePaul Organization for Intersectional Health will further these values, specifically, in the context of medicine, health, and wellness. DePaul Organization for Intersectional Health (DOIH) is in sync with DePaul University's values of maintaining diversity, inclusion, social justice, and community involvement in medicine, health, and wellness. Offering the platform for much-needed discussion about disparities in health and perpetuating systems, DOIH prepares students to be socially aware leaders who are well-placed to combat inequity in healthcare. The organization provides students with a forum to explore the intersection of identity and health in order to promote awareness, sensitivity, and action towards systemic change. By doing this, DOIH is able to assist DePaul in its effort to prepare students to work with and serve their communities through ethical and informed healthcare practice.