Join our E-Board!
Applications now open!
Role of each team:
Executive Chair: The Executive Chair oversees Medical Students for a Sustainable Future as a whole, supporting each chair on their projects, facilitating development, implementing strategy, and directing organizational structure and logistics. The Executive Chair supports and embodies the mission and principles of the group as a whole and mobilizes the entire leadership team to achieve MS4SF goals and priorities.
Vice Chairs: The Vice Chairs assist the Chair in overseeing Medical Students for a Sustainable Future as a whole, supporting each chair on their projects, facilitating development, implementing strategy, and directing organizational structure and logistics. The Vice Chairs support the mission of MS4SF and help the Chair mobilize the leadership team to achieve MS4SF goals and priorities.
Advocacy: The Advocacy team mobilizes coordinated medical student actions and advocates for policy solutions that fit the scale of the climate crisis. The Advocacy Chairs will continue to develop MS4SF’s advocacy platform and facilitate climate, health, and justice centered advocacy actions for medical students. While there is ample room for flexibility and creativity in the process, Advocacy Chairs support efforts at institutional, state, and national levels.
Climate Smart Healthcare: The Climate Smart Health Care Chairs work to align with the “do no harm” credo of physicians by improving the resiliency of health care facilities in the face of climate change. They promote and facilitate sustainability initiatives at medical schools and their associated health care systems through educational events and by providing support to individuals hoping to lead such endeavors.
Communications: The Communication Chairs create powerful communications tools that allow knowledge-sharing and interdisciplinary collaboration and maintain accessible social media platforms. Chairs will have the opportunity to recruit sub-chair positions for their committees to support specific projects.
Finance: Finance works closely with the Executive Chair and Vice Chair to manage the financial future of MS4SF. This will entail navigating the process of obtaining funding or other sponsorship for the organization as well as managing relationships with current funding sources.
Partnerships:
The Partnership Chairs lead collaboration and partnerships with organizations whose missions and values align with our own to increase impact and reach. Chairs will have the opportunity to recruit sub-chair positions for their committees to support specific projects.
Research: The Research Chairs support members in initiating research projects, help plan MS4SF’s annual research symposium to provide opportunities to share their work, facilitate collaborations within our group, and connect students to research mentors.
More details on each role here
Apply here by 9/30/26!
See the list of current chapters below, and click on the image above for an interactive version!
Become an MS4SF member
If you are a medical student interested in joining Medical Students for a Sustainable Future, please take these steps to become a member:
- Review our MS4SF mission statement and principles to understand what it means to join our community!
- Complete our member contact form!
Join as a Chapter or Affiliate
If you are a medical student interested in starting a Medical Students for a Sustainable Future (MS4SF) chapter at your school or connecting your existing organization with the MS4SF coalition, you have the following options:
- Form an MS4SF Chapter at your institution or transform your current organization into an MS4SF Chapter
- Join the MS4SF coalition as an Affiliate
Please note that Chapters and Affiliates are provided with the same level of support and the difference is nominal only. In order to join as a Chapter or an Affiliate, please complete the following steps:
- Review the MS4SF mission statement and MS4SF principles to determine whether your organization aligns with and will be able to uphold our mission statement and principles.
- Review the MS4SF chapter & affiliate guidelines to make sure you are able to abide by our guidelines.
- Complete our Chapter & Affiliate Form to join the coalition.
- Once a year complete our Chapter & Affiliate Census.
List of Medical Schools with an MS4SF Chapter or Affiliate Group
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine
Carle Illinois College of Medicine
Case Western Reserve Medical School
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Creighton University School of Medicine Phoenix
Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin
Emory University School of Medicine
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth CollegeGeisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine
George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences – Joplin Campus
Larner College of Medicine at University of Vermont
Loma Linda University School of Medicine
Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine
Medical College of Georgia
Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine
New York University Grossman School of Medicine
Northeast Ohio Medical University
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Oregon Health and Science University
Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Stanford University School of Medicine
State University of New York Upstate Medical University
University of Alabama Heersink School of Medicine
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine
University of California Davis School of Medicine
University of California San Francisco – University of California Berkely
University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
University of Colorado School of Medicine
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine
University of Massacheussets Chan Medical School
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
University of Michigan Medical School
University of Minnesota Medical School
University of Nebraska Medical Center
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
University of Oklahoma
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine
University of Utah School of Medicine
University of Washington School of Medicine – WWAMI regional sites
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Washington University School of Medicine
Weil Cornell Medicine
Please contact us at ms4sf.med@gmail.com if you have any questions!
