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The Standing Committee on Public Health (SCOPH) brings together medical students from
all over the world to learn, build on skills, cooperate, explore and share ideas when it
comes to addressing all issues related to public health, including global health issues,
health policies, health promotion and education activities.
History
Back in 1952, medical students of the International Federation of Medical Students’
Associations (IFMSA) formed the Standing Committee on Students’ Health (SCOSH), driven
by a strong will to take an active part in preventing and making policies concerning health
problems. During the following years, the wide variety of activities led to the change of
the name to the Standing Committee on Health (SCOH) in 1963. Afterwards in 1983 the
name of the committee changed once more to the name we use to this day, the Standing
Committee on Public Health (SCOPH).
Since these six decades have past, SCOPH members are implementing, maintaining and
improving a wide variety of community- based projects on a local, national, regional and
international level. Through these activities we reach our united vision for a healthier
society and further development our own potential to become competent and talented
health professionals.
Vision
The Standing Committee on Public Health works towards ensuring a healthy global society
that is empowered through its knowledge, skills and opportunities to live a life of complete
physical, mental and social well-being.
Mission
In order to work towards our vision, we promote community based outreach activities at a
local level, which are inspired by the best practice within our federation and through the
development of our own skills and potentials, as medical students and future health
professionals, we voice our actions together through the powers of advocacy. Below
represents the core purpose and values of SCOPH.
Goals
The focus of our efforts is to try and tackle the key public health issues according to local
needs. The coordination and performance of these activities are based on the fundamental
WHO World Health Days thus combining our efforts and energies with health professionals
around the world.
In order to achieve our goals SCOPH needs an organised and sustainable way to support its
members with information and know-how. The backbones of this ongoing process are the
national and international SCOPH meetings as well our platforms for communication and
information keeping. Our goals include:
In order to combine our efforts with worldwide health professionals we focus the
coordination and performance of our specific activities according to the main WHO World
Health Days.
These Days are promoted through our communication media (e.g. Yahoo-Group) to give
guidance to our National Member Organisation’s (NMO’s). This supports the flow of
information and exchange of experience but is only meant to act as guidance and is not
enforced. The World Health Days SCOPH supports are:
Tobacco
Tuberculosis
Malaria
Mental Health
As well as: Cancer, Eyes health, Blood donation, Organ donation, Ageing and health,
Road safety, Rural and remote health, Environmental health, SCOPH Exchange and
many, many more
SCOPH Projects & Activities:
The first part of these projects & activities is a list of the Initiative Projects of SCOPH.
These projects combine many approaches and ideas and provide an introduction to a
specific topic.
The second part of these projects is a list of the most common activities within SCOPH.
They are common because of their relevance, simplicity and attractiveness of their basic
idea.
Anti-TB Campaign
Smoke-free Party
Smoking-ologist
SCOPH Meetings:
NMO SCOPH Meetings and trainings: open for national or international attendance
The strength of SCOPH on the international level is within the potential to support medical
students on a local and national level.
Information
SCOPH Projects Booklet (descriptions and guidelines for the main projects and
activities of SCOPH)
SCOPH – The Movie (a movie as an introduction about our Standing Committee; for
internal and external use)
SCOPH Movies (informative movies as introductions to the main public health topics
and projects we are working on; to be published at You-Tube)
SCOPH World Reports (compilation of the half-year NPO Reports as a global SCOPH
Database)
Communication
Regional MSN Meetings (facilitated by the SCOPH Regional Assistants, open for all
regional SCOPHians to share ideas and experiences)