Partners In Health Canada

Partners In Health Canada We are a social justice and global health organization striving to make health care a human right. We refuse to accept that any life is worth less than another.

Partners In Health (PIH) was founded in 1987 to support a one-room health clinic serving a destitute squatter settlement in rural Haiti. PIH’s founders believed the conditions in the settlement — the crushing poverty, absence of modern health care and pervasive poor health — were not inevitable. These were social conditions subject to human intervention and so could be changed — in Haiti or anywhe

re in the world. PIH Canada opened our offices in 2011 to strengthen the work and add our voice to the Canadian movement for health as a human right. We bring the benefits of modern medicine to those who have suffered from the overt and subtle injustices of the world, in the past and in the present.

Global citizenship sounds cute until it asks institutions to give up control.And that was the part of the OCIC Symposium...
05/29/2026

Global citizenship sounds cute until it asks institutions to give up control.

And that was the part of the OCIC Symposium that stuck with us.

Not just the inspiring panels. (There were many!)
Not just the good conversations. (There was even more of those.)
The uncomfortable bit underneath it all:

Are we actually shifting power, or are we just getting better at saying we are?

Because youth leadership is not a vibe.
Locally led work is not a branding exercise.
“Solidarity” does not mean funding people with one hand and tying their hands with the other.

And when crises like Ebola expose what happens when health systems are under-resourced, the stakes get very real, very fast.

So yes, we left inspired.

But more importantly, we left with questions we can’t really un-ask.

What’s one thing our sector needs to stop pretending is “power-sharing”?

Health care is a human right. But rights don’t fund themselves.In Malawi, the government spends $7 per person on health ...
05/24/2026

Health care is a human right. But rights don’t fund themselves.
In Malawi, the government spends $7 per person on health care each year. In Canada, that number is $5,887. That gap is a clear systemic problem. And closing it requires more than foreign aid.

Swipe to see what it actually takes to build health systems that last and what PIH is doing about it. And read the full analysis through the link in our bio.

05/21/2026

Oh, you thought this was just a casual Saturday reading club… 👀

Our next session is about structural violence and maternal care — aka how unjust systems don’t just “happen,” they are built, maintained, and felt in people’s bodies.

We’ll be reading Paul Farmer’s “On Suffering and Structural Violence: A View from Below” and Human Rights Watch’s “No Money, No Care: Obstetric Violence in Sierra Leone.”

Join us online Saturday, May 23, 11 am–12 pm ET.
Register at the link in bio to receive your Zoom link.
You can also comment CLURB and we’ll send it your way!

05/18/2026

Applications are rolling in and we are being so normal about it.

There are still a couple of weeks left to apply for the 2026–2027 Mentorship Circle — get yours in before May 30 at 11:59 p.m. ET.

So you found your social justice profile.Cute.Now use it.Because the world does not change because people agree that inj...
05/18/2026

So you found your social justice profile.

Cute.

Now use it.

Because the world does not change because people agree that injustice is bad. It changes when people organize, build, witness, analyse, and keep showing up long after the carousel ends.

Find your role. Bring your people. And join the movement for health justice.

Link in bio.

Tell me your team is obsessed with spreadsheets without telling me your team is obsessed with spreadsheets. 📊🧐We all too...
05/17/2026

Tell me your team is obsessed with spreadsheets without telling me your team is obsessed with spreadsheets. 📊🧐

We all took the quiz at pihcanada.org/quiz and let’s just say... a lot of our meeting dynamics suddenly make perfect sense. If you’ve ever wondered what happens when a handful of activists try to balance pure chaos with heavy data analysis, swipe through to meet the crew.

Head to the link in our bio to find your archetype, and drop yours in the comments so we know who to send our next pivot table to! 👇

05/16/2026

I can see it in your eyes... I can see it in your smile... you want to join a reading club. 😉📚

RSVPs are NOW OPEN for our next Doing Hard Things with Friends session. And this one is a banger, if I do say so myself.

We’re unpacking Structural Violence and Maternal Health. Come for the Lionel Richie memes, stay for the incredible community and deeply meaningful discussion. Newcomers and returning friends are all welcome!

👉 Click the link in our bio to secure your spot today before they fill up! Or Comment CLURB and we’ll send it your way

05/14/2026

Celebrating a decade of impact: Our 10-Year Academic Report is now live.

Over the past decade, has grown in many ways. We have built new pathways for learning, deepened partnerships across borders, advanced research that drives real change, and worked shoulder to shoulder with communities to build stronger, more resilient health systems.

We believe health is a human right, and at UGHE, it is the foundation of everything we do. We prepare students not only to care for communities, but to stand with them, learn from them, and work alongside them to build a more just and equitable world.

Read the full 10-Year Academic Report here: go.ughe.org/10yrsreport

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890 Yonge Street Suite 603
Toronto, ON
M4W3P4

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