Princeton student organizations rely on student initiative and leadership. We maintain this list to inspire current students to revive or build on ideas of past prehealth students.

• Princeton Body Positivity is dedicated to creating conversations about body image, weight stigma, and eating disorders in the campus community. We host regular discussions within the club about these issues and plan advocacy projects to increase awareness about them across campus as a whole.
  
  contact: [email protected]
   
• Princeton for Palliative Care is a student group advocating for increased awareness around palliative care, through organizing fundraisers for palliative care organizations, inviting webinars/speakers in the field, and promoting local hospice volunteering.
   
• Princeton Pre-Veterinary Society provides students interested in pursuing careers in the veterinary field with resources, support, and information regarding the veterinary school application process, possible career paths, and other opportunities.
   
• The Princeton Public Health Review (PPHR) is a student-run publication designed to showcase the outstanding global health and medical research happening locally, nationally, and internationally, and to provide a forum for any health-related discussions.
   
• Princeton Varsity Athlete Pre-Medicine Society (PVAPS): A supportive community aiming to bring athletes together who are premed, provide resources that may be hard to access outside of HPA office hours, and connect premed athletes with student-athlete alumni now in medicine.
   
• American Physician Scientists Association (APSA) is the largest national organization specifically dedicated to helping physician scientists in their training. The Princeton Chapter of APSA was founded to become a hub for all Princeton students interested in becoming physician-scientists or pursuing MD/PhDs. We seek to improve opportunities for mentorship, community building, and support. Throughout the year, we invite physician-scientists and current MD/PhD students to speak on campus. We also send several students each year to the National APSA Conference in Chicago, where physician-scientists from across the nation speak about their research and own career paths.
   
• Be Jersey Strong Health Reform Movement: This initiative was established in Fall 2015 to mobilize students interested in implementing health reform efforts in NJ by talking one on one with uninsured individuals about their health care options.
  • Email questions to [email protected].
  • Insure Jersey (previously Be Jersey Strong) is a grassroots student movement assisting with the implementation of health insurance reform here in New Jersey. Many individuals are eligible for the health care marketplace but remain uninsured, and research suggests that for these remaining uninsured, it takes one-on-one, in-person conversations to make the decision to enroll. We train and mobilize student volunteers to have such conversations with the uninsured throughout the state.
     
• Cards for Courage: create and send hand-made cards to patients and healthcare workers
   
• Finding the Match: raise awareness of leukemia/lymphoma
   
• GlobeMed: partnered with a clinic in Uganda and address health inequalities.
   
• Health in Princeton Schools: was a Pace Center student group where members went into local elementary schools to raise health awareness and provide health education.
   
• Homefront Health Initiative: worked with Homefront to focus on health and education for children who are homeless.
   
• The Latino Medical Student Association, Princeton Chapter The purpose of the LMSA+ PU is to acknowledge the health needs of the Latino community, as well as to promote the interests and support of those undergraduate premedical students who identify themselves as Latino students of Princeton University through social, cultural, educational, political and other activities. We're a part of LMSA Northeast.
   
• Meals on Wheels: provide social interaction and meals for seniors in the area.
   
• The Minority Association of Pre-Health Students (MAPS) is a program created by the Student National Medical Association (SNMA) to offer guidance and support to undergraduate students interested in pursuing a career in medicine.  
  • SNMA is an organization dedicated to people of color and underserved communities.  Through various initiatives, SNMA aims to increase the degree of diversity in the medical profession by promoting levels of minority student recruitment, admissions, and retention in schools training healthcare professionals.  These efforts will work to improve the number of “clinically excellent, culturally competent, and socially conscious physicians” (SNMA.org). 
  • SNMA members work with MAPS chapters at nearby undergraduate institutions to advise them about the medical school application process, the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT), and to serve as mentors to undergraduate students to help them successfully matriculate into medical school.  The MAPS chapter at Princeton organizes fundraising activities to benefit health-related causes, publishes newsletters with advice for minority prehealth students, hosts study halls during exam periods, and much more! Everyone is welcome to join, so please feel free to stop by any MAPS meeting or event.
     
• Music is Medicine: perform for elderly individuals and patients in hospitals
   
• Princeton Journal of Bioethics: established in 1997, is the oldest undergraduate journal of bioethics in the world. The primary goal of the Journal is to provide undergraduates an arena for the discussion of current issues in bioethics including genetic engineering, reproductive rights, stem cell research, and euthanasia. The Journal serves as a resource for students and professors of bioethics, as well as a representation of undergraduate work in bioethics. Working with a Technical Review Board of leaders in education, medicine, science, and ethics, the Journal strives to provide material of the highest quality. The Journal's readership extends throughout the globe, and it is distributed at national bioethics conferences and associated committees.
   
• Princeton Disability Awareness: connect with young people with disabilities.
   
• Princeton Health Initiative (PHI) is a student organization that partners with the Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund (LALDEF), a grassroots nonprofit organization committed to serving the low-income Latino immigrant communities of the Mercer County region. Adults have lost their jobs due to COVID-19 and are facing financial distress and a lack of resources. Students are now forced to learn virtually in difficult home environments while also taking on the burden of caring for their families, especially younger siblings. PHI is committed to helping these students and adults by, respectively, creating mental health wellness lessons and providing education about resources that are available to them that can help in these difficult times. Contact: Jen No '22
   
• Princeton TropicalClinics for Rural Health (TCRH) is the founding student chapter of an initiative led by TropicalClinics, a 501(c)3 U.S. nonprofit with the mission of building one-of-a-kind health centers in rural areas of developing nations, starting in Kenya. Through implementing dedicated fundraising efforts and facilitating frequent rural health activism events, TCRH chapters provide direct support for the mission of TropicalClinics to bring quality health care to underserved rural populations in developing nations, while in the process fostering the development of their members as future leaders in the global health field.
   
• Operation Smile is an international medical charity that provides free reconstructive surgeries for children born with cleft lips, cleft palates and other facial deformities. They are one the world's largest medical charities with over 5,000 volunteers worldwide. Each Operation Smile surgery costs as little as $240 and can take as little as 45 minutes. Operation Smile is one of the few non-governmental organization's that allow high school, university, and medical students to volunteer on missions.
   
• Relay for Life: raise money for the American Cancer Society. This money will be used to fund cancer research, provide better support resources for cancer patients and survivors, and to raise general awareness about cancer and its effects on daily life. 
   
• Students vs. Pandemics Princeton seeks to alleviate the burdens posted by COVID-19 and make a positive impact in times of crisis. Contacts: David Eniola '23 and Paulina Przygonska '22.
   
• TigerTAIL: volunteer at a local no-kill animal shelter
   
• Unite for Sight: raise awareness and funds for eye surgeries in Ghana