About

Our Mission

“We aim to cultivate leadership and advocacy skills among health professional students so they can effect change in the healthcare system in support of comprehensive, high-quality, accessible, guaranteed, and affordable health care for all Californians.”

– CaHPSA at Berkeley

What We Do

CaHPSA organizes conferences, workshops, and presentations aimed at helping students develop effective health advocacy skills, promote a sense of social responsibility, and encourage collaboration.

We also support efforts by our allies and partners to improve the current healthcare system by participating in legislative visits, community education, and outreach events.

In addition, CaHPSA is also committed to helping people get health coverage now. Through our Project White Coat program, we have helped over 400 families enroll in Medi-Cal or another form of health insurance.


Who We Are?

“California Health Professional Student Alliance (CaHPSA) is the student section of California Physicians Alliance (CaPA). CaHPSA aims to cultivate leadership and advocacy skills among students so they can effect change in the healthcare system, primarily through grassroots efforts, education, and community outreach, in support of comprehensive, high-quality, accessible, guaranteed, and affordable health care for all Californians” (CaHPSA main website).

Our organization consists of over 3,000 undergraduates, medical students, and health professional students located statewide who are interested in developing health advocacy skills that can be utilized to effect change in the health care system. Members are able to apply their experiences to better communicating the need for an improved Medicare-for-all health care system in which all people can have access to necessary health and medical services.

Where We Are

Parent Organization

Our parent organization, the California Physicians Alliance, is a collaboration of doctors across the state of California dedicated to collaborating and advocating for equitable and universal healthcare access. According to their website, their vision “ is the creation and full implementation of Golden State Care, a unified system of public financing for California. Golden State Care would cover all necessary healthcare costs, finances the delivery of healthcare while building upon current, private networks, covers all Californians from birth to death, and is unlinked from the place of employment.”

Please feel free to explore CaPA’s work and mission at their website:  https://caphysiciansalliance.org

Other Chapters

Medical Schools
David Geffen School of Medicine (UCLA)
University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
College of Osteopathic Medicine, Touro
California Northstate University, College of Medicine
UC Davis School of Medicine

​Undergraduate
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Davis
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Merced
University of California, Riverside
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, San Diego
University of California, Santa Cruz
California State University, Chico
California State University, Long Beach
Sonoma State University
Fresno State University
San Francisco City College
West Valley Community College at Mission District

​Graduate
University of California, Davis Post-baccalaureate Program
University of California, Los Angeles Post-baccalaureate Program
University of California, Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health
Keck Graduate Institute