EqualHealth

What EqualHealth does

EqualHealth is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, headquartered in Brookline, Massachusetts, that delivers social medicine education, health-equity advocacy, and solidarity-based mutual aid to a global community of health professionals, educators, and activists. Founded through the 2019 merger of SocMed (established 2010) and Physicians for Haiti (established 2010), and officially launched as a unified entity in 2020, the organization operates four interconnected programs: the Social Medicine Course (a transnational graduate-level course for health professional students run simultaneously in Uganda, Haiti, and Minnesota since 2010, with 670+ alumni to date); the Social Medicine Consortium (a convening platform hosting annual conferences of 400-800+ attendees since 2016); the Campaign Against Racism (a 17-chapter organizing network spanning 10 countries, launched 2018 with 350+ founding members); and Mutual Aid (a solidarity fund that has distributed $4,000-$10,000 grants to local Haitian and Ugandan organizations, reaching 22,000+ beneficiaries). The underlying technology is a hybrid synchronous-and-in-person transnational course delivery model that bridges co-learners across three continents through web-based presentations, narrative-medicine pedagogy, and locally embedded teaching teams in partnership with the University of Minnesota, Gulu University, and Haitian medical institutions.

The organization serves two distinct stakeholder groups: graduate-level health professional students and a broader movement of health-justice advocates. Its GTM is community-led and event-driven — annual conferences, the Highlander Retreat, transnational Saturday Sessions, and direct chapter-based organizing — complemented by direct-to-individual donor engagement via the GiveButter platform. EqualHealth does not charge for its educational programs; revenue is generated entirely through tax-deductible individual donations and foundation grants, with named institutional funders including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Abundance Foundation, and Deb & Max Stone Foundation. The 2025 course cycle achieved record enrollment of 68 learners selected from 300+ applicants, and the organization is now recruiting its 2026 cohort.

EqualHealth is led by four co-founders — Michelle Morse, Zadok Sacks, Mike Westerhaus, and Amy Finnegan — operating under a collective leadership model that intentionally centers leaders from Haiti, Uganda, and other Global South countries. It maintains 1-10 employees and operates across North America, East Africa, the Caribbean, Western Europe, South America, West and Southern Africa, the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia.

Name

EqualHealth

Legal name

EqualHealth 501(c)(3)

Website

https://equalhealth.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

EqualHealth is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that delivers transnational social-medicine education, health-equity advocacy, and mutual aid to health professionals and communities across Haiti, Uganda, and the United States through its Social Medicine Course, Campaign Against Racism chapters, and the Social Medicine Consortium.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Social Medicine Education

NAICS

Social Advocacy Organizations (8133), Social Assistance (624)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Global Health Advocacy, Policy & Rights Organizations (HLAJAKAO)

akta.pro secondary industries

Nutrition, WASH & Social Determinants Partnerships (Cross-Sector Health Initiatives) (HLAJAOAO), Human Rights & Anti-Discrimination Organizations (BPAGAFAB)

Keywords

• Social medicine education
• Health equity advocacy
• Community health organizing
• Mutual aid funding
• Global health solidarity

Headquarters

HQ city

Brookline

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Individual Donations: EqualHealth receives contributions from individual donors through its GiveButter fundraising platform, supporting the Campaign for Health Equity and Mutual Aid programs.
2. Foundation Grants: Funding from foundations including Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Abundance Foundation, Deb and Max Stone Foundation, and others supporting specific programs and operational costs.
3. Mutual Aid Fundraising: EqualHealth raises funds specifically for Mutual Aid grants ($4,000-$10,000) to local Haitian and Ugandan organizations. In 2021, raised $57,196 total; distributed $41,926.92 to 6 organizations from August 2021 to December 2022.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

EqualHealth is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that runs a transnational Social Medicine Course for graduate-level health professional students across Uganda, Haiti, and Minnesota, an annual Social Medicine Consortium conference, a global Campaign Against Racism organizing network with 17 chapters across 10 countries, and a Mutual Aid solidarity fund that distributes $4,000–$10,000 grants to local organizations in Haiti and Uganda affected by disasters.

Product overview

EqualHealth is a nonprofit social medicine education and advocacy organization offering four interconnected core programs: the Social Medicine Course (a transnational graduate-level educational program for health professionals in Uganda, Haiti, and Minnesota), the Social Medicine Consortium (a convening platform for conferences and knowledge-sharing), the Campaign Against Racism (an organizing framework with chapters across 10 countries), and the Mutual Aid Program (a solidarity-based fund supporting disaster-affected communities). These programs collectively work toward health equity through education, training, advocacy, and direct community support.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Campaign Against Racism (CAR): A program dedicated to dismantling structural racism and its global effects on health by supporting local actions, efforts, and networks.
• Social Medicine Course (SocMed)
• Mutual Aid
• Social Medicine Consortium (SMC)

Products and services

• Social Medicine Course (SocMed) A transnational graduate-level course for health professional students in Uganda, Haiti, and the United States that offers experiential learning in health equity, social determinants of health, and community-based healthcare. The course merges community engagement, synchronous web-based discussions, group reflection, theater, film, and narrative medicine. It runs from September to December annually and is based out of the University of Minnesota's Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility.
• Social Medicine Consortium (SMC) A collective of committed individuals, universities, and organizations fighting for health equity through education, training, service, and advocacy, with social medicine at its core. The SMC convenes annual conferences that draw 400–800+ attendees from health professions globally.
• Campaign Against Racism (CAR) A global organizing campaign to dismantle structural racism and its global effects on health by supporting local actions, efforts, and networks. CAR operates with a chapter model across 17 chapters in 10 countries.
• Mutual Aid Program A solidarity-based fund that provides immediate assistance to grassroots communities in Haiti and Uganda impacted by natural and human-caused disasters through grants of $4,000–$10,000 to local organizations, plus technical assistance for short-term material needs and long-term capacity building.

Quantifiable outcome

• 670+ graduates of Social Medicine Course since 2010, now serving as healthcare leaders worldwide
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• University of MinnesotacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe University of Minnesota's Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility serves as the academic home for the Social Medicine Course. EqualHealth's course is designed for graduate-level students and based out of this institution, with faculty including Dr. Michael Westerhaus from the university.
• Abundance FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Abundance Foundation and its partners train, support and empower local leaders in communities worldwide to develop new capacities. They serve as a connective hub to a network of visionaries working to transform scarcity into abundance, supporting EqualHealth's programs.
• Highlander Research and Education CentercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHighlander serves as a catalyst for grassroots organizing and movement building in Appalachia and the South. They support EqualHealth's efforts to take collective action and shape their own destiny, hosting CAR launches and annual retreats.
• SocMed Alumni Haiti (SMAH)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSMAH is a group of Haitian and international students and professionals who have participated in EqualHealth's Social Medicine Course and dedicated themselves to promoting social medicine. They lead the Haiti Social Medicine Seminar and have extended the course to over 10 new institutions.
• Zanmi Lasante / Partners In HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrong and loyal partners of EqualHealth for many years. Zanmi Lasante operates Mirebalais University Hospital in Haiti. EqualHealth has issued solidarity statements in support of Zanmi Lasante following attacks on the hospital.
• The Lancet CommissionmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEqualHealth contributes to the Lancet Commission on structural drivers of health inequity. A CAR organizer was selected as Commissioner on the Lancet Global Health Commission on People-Centered Care for Universal Health Coverage.
• South Feminist FuturesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in collaborative initiatives supporting feminist organizing and health justice efforts.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves10 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Last Mile Health: Nonprofit that trains community health workers to deliver primary care in remote regions of Africa. Comparable to EqualHealth in its focus on health workforce education for equity, transnational training model, and donor-supported nonprofit structure.
• Grassroot Soccer: Nonprofit using sport to deliver adolescent health education across Africa and globally. Comparable as a health-education-focused nonprofit using innovative non-traditional pedagogical methods to reach young people in Global South countries.
• Seed Global Health: Nonprofit that educates and trains health professionals in resource-limited settings including Uganda. Shares EqualHealth's model of investing in health professional education as a lever for health equity in Global South countries.
• VillageReach: Nonprofit strengthening health systems in under-served communities with a focus on logistics and community health workers. Comparable as a health equity nonprofit with program delivery in African countries and foundation-funded model.
• Health Leads: Nonprofit addressing social determinants of health through partnerships with health systems. Shares EqualHealth's framing of health equity through addressing structural determinants and training health professionals to address root causes.
• Global Health Corps: Nonprofit developing the next generation of global health leaders through fellowship programs. Comparable in its leadership-development-for-health-equity mission, transnational cohort model, and foundation-supported structure.
• Partners in Health: Global health equity nonprofit providing healthcare in resource-poor settings including Haiti. Partners in Health operates Zanmi Lasante (a long-standing EqualHealth partner) and shares a social justice-oriented health equity mission, making it the most directly comparable peer.

Broad incumbents

• Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders: Large established international medical humanitarian organization operating across many countries including Haiti. Overlaps with EqualHealth in advocacy (e.g., access to medicines, structural critique) but operates at vastly larger scale as a clinical service provider.

Others

• The Lancet Commission: Policy and research commissions within The Lancet that translate evidence into global health recommendations. EqualHealth contributes to and has representatives on Lancet Commissions, making it an enabling policy platform rather than a direct competitor.
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Major U.S. health philanthropy funding health equity initiatives. While a funder rather than competitor, RWJF's health equity grantmaking strategy is the conceptual framework against which EqualHealth positions its programs, making it an ecosystem reference point.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/equalhealtheqh
• Facebookfacebook.com/EqualHealthHaiti
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/10119410

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles13 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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