Speak Out for Surgery at UCLA is an on-campus organization dedicated to combating healthcare inequality in the Greater Los Angeles area.
Dallas, TX
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In partnership with local nonprofit organizations, our mission is to provide free surgical care and long-term support services to people from underserved communities who have been denied access to crucial medical procedures through mainstream routes. As a result, we hope to increase awareness about socioeconomic and sociocultural disparities in the healthcare system and construct an empowering narrative around disability. Through speaking out on these issues, we aim to encourage a culture where advocating for community needs leads to healthcare equity.
Speak Out for Surgery (S.O.S) is a student-led organization that was created to address and resolve domestic healthcare disparities. As advocates for those who are overlooked in our healthcare system, members of S.O.S. aim to recognize the medical and personal struggles that patients and their families face. After hearing their stories, our team connects people with the surgical, legal, psychological, and financial resources necessary to remedy issues in their lives that are outside of their control. In addition to working towards patient care on an individual basis, we strive to increase awareness about socioeconomic and sociocultural disparities in the healthcare system. S.O.S. uses information from the interviews to write anecdotal pieces, publish public health statistics, host campus-wide educational events, and coordinate fundraisers. Each of these tasks contributes to our ultimate goal: broadening the discussion about disparities in children’s health across Southern California.
