PIHPSA

Warm Pacific Greetings to you all!

PIHPSA stands for Pacific Island Health Professional Students’ Association and is open to students studying in:

Health Sciences First Year
Medicine
Pharmacy
Physio
Otago School of Medical Sciences
Dentistry

PIHPSA was started 5 years ago by Prerna (She is now working as a doctor) whose vision was to support our students & encourage networking between and within the health professions. Since then PIHPSA has been working to achieve that vision via mentoring, advocacy, organising social events, sending students to conferences, cultural dances, Friday lunches, encouraging research and the list goes on!

Here is a list of our purposes and aims:

To provide mentoring and support for Pacific Island Students studying health professional courses.
To help facilitate networking for our students with our future and existing health professionals.
To encourage Pacific culture and community
To provide a forum where students can be informed of pacific health issues
To help advise academic institutions on pacific curriculum and Pacific island recruitment and retention
To promote health professions as careers in Pacific communities

PIHPSA is an independent student body, please click here to go to PIHPSA’s website.

Our hope is to help create a culture of unity, encouragement and support. We want to see you all achieve to the best of your abilities and we hope we can be instrumental in getting you there.

Your ATTITUDE,
not your APTITUDE,
determines your
ALTITUDE.

Zig Ziglar

God bless!
PIHPSA President