About Us

The Health Career Collaborative (HCC) is a 501c-3 non profit organization that supports medical training programs and other healthcare partners to engage in meaningful outreach to youth from historically marginalized communities that are underrepresented in medicine. The HCC model includes empowering medical students and allied health professional students to go to the high schools to serve as mentors and provide engaging science and health curriculum to high school students from local underserved schools. The mentors then support the high school students to create high level academic and artistic presentations about health topics of their choosing. Regular field trips to the medical school and healthcare facilities are an important part of the HCC model to show the high school students the possibilities of careers in healthcare. As of 2024, HCC has chapters in 32 cities at more than 40 medical schools and health professional training programs.

This video created in 2014 describes some of the fundamental principles behind the dissemination of the HCC program nationally.