From Jake-
To give you a little background, AFTU started about about 3 years ago, as a semi-independant advocacy group composed of health professional students at UW (nursing, dental, social work, medicine and others.) I say semi-independent because it is sort of the advocacy arm of SITC, however the advocacy projects are usually thought up, incubated and executed by the AFTU group itself, without SITC oversight.
The projects AFTU undertakes usually have either an action/advocacy component or an educational bent, related to improving the health and wellbeing of low-income and other underserved populations. Projects vary. This past year we had two docs speak about their advocacy experience as physicians (in the past we've had epi professors talk about nutrition in low income neighborhoods.) This year we also sent letters to national representatives regarding SCHIP, went to the city council to urge them to continue funding public health, and took a group of students to Olympia to lobby our legislators about various health reforms.
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