The PHM-USA Circle is currently the smallest, and we are beginning to organize various outreach activities as a way to build awareness of and support for the People's Health Movement. While we believe it is essential to develop a strategy to achieve primary health care in the U.S., we think this cannot be done in an isolated way without broader participation. In the short term, then, we think it imperative to build the organization and take advantage of our location in the United States to carry out activities focused on support for the international movement.

Our current activities include:

• Building awareness among U.S. and Canadian based groups and networks who oppose the ways in which corporate-led globalization is worsening people's health and how the initiatives of the People's Health Movement offer alternative visions of health and development.
• Reaching out to health professionals interested in health and human rights.
• Reaching out to people organizing around universal health care in the U.S.
• Educating and inspiring students within the healthcare field about the possibilities of improving people's health worldwide within the context of a profit-driven health care system.
• Putting primary health care back at the top of the agenda for people involved with international health and development.
• Building a Peoples Health Movement-USA web site and listserver as a means of sharing information and engaging in debate and discussion.
• Organizing educational and media events in North America for visiting international representatives of the Peoples Health Movement.

The conveners of the PHM-USA circle are:

• Hesperian Foundation. Sarah Shannon/Tawnia Queen phm@hesperian.org
• Doctors for Global Health. Steve Miller/Lanny Smith dghinfo@dghonline.org