PHM-US is a network of individuals and organizations working to transform the United States health system while also supporting international efforts to challenge destructive US policies and corporations. Being part of PHM-US means sharing the values of the People's Charter for Health and advancing a vision of health for all.

 There are many ways to join the movement!

• READ AND ENDORSE the People's Charter for Health

• SIGN UP to receive occasional announcements and action alerts by emailing phmusa-subscribe@lists.riseup.net

• GET ACTIVE with an interest group on:
• Health Systems Reform and Access to Health Care (email jopuvvula-at-hotmail.com)
  Recommended readings and videos: The Struggle for Health in El Salvador (video); Global Health Watch 2 Part B: The Health Care Sector; Out in the Rural (video); Frontline documentary Sick Around the World; NGO Code of Conduct for Health Systems Strengthening
• Environmental Justice (email abnolen-at-utmb.edu)
  Recommended readings and videos:  Health Crisis Rocks the Gulf in the Aftermath of the Spill, but Feds and BP Turn a Blind Eye; Filmmaker Josh Fox on"Gasland" (video)
• Anti-Militarism (email elyon-at-pih.org) 
• Worker's Rights, Health, and Economic Justice (email dorothy-at-hesperian.org)
  Recommended readings and videos:  Behind Closed Doors: Working Conditions of California Household Workers;  Check, please!: Health and Working Conditions in San Francisco Chinatown Restaurants; Global Health Watch 2 Part A: An Alternative Paradigm for Development; Richard Wolff (videos):  "Capitalism Hits the Fan", "Why the economic crisis deepens"; Robert Reich (video): "The Next Economy and America's Future"; Elizabeth Warren interviewed by Maria Hinojosa (video)
• Trade and Access to Essential Medicines (email lily-at-hesperian.org)
• PHM US Student Circle (email jdashmore-at-gmail.com)

Learn more

You can learn more about who we are and how we work on the coordinating committee page and by checking out the news and resources posted below. Have questions or ideas? Please write to phm@hesperian.org!