Vaden Student Health Advisory Committee

Non-Confrontation, Mutual Respect, and Partnership

What are we?

The Vaden Student Health Advisory Committee is a collection of Stanford students (undergrad and graduate) who advocate for affordability, accessibility, and equity amongst Stanford’s campus health resources. We meet with Vaden administration on a monthly basis to review the biggest issues that Stanford students are facing in regards to their healthcare, and we advocate for student health through other avenues such as Associated Students of Stanford University (ASSU), Aetna Student Health, and Stanford administration like the President/Provost’s offices. If you have a healthcare question, concern, or inquiry, this is the right place to be.

Our Team

Joy Molloy (she/her)

Joy Molloy (she/her) is a Human Biology major and a part of the class of 2025. She just finished her second term on the ASSU Undergraduate Senate, where she served as Deputy Chair. Joy has been working to help create the VSHAC since spring quarter of last school year and her motivation for getting involved was hearing about the various concerns students on campus had about healthcare. Moving forward, Joy hopes that Stanford student leaders can continue to create an open form of communication between the student body and Vaden administration.

Perry Nielson Jr. (he/him)

Perry Nielsen Jr (he/him) is a second year masters student studying health policy and recently served as the 23-24 ASSU Exec Cabinet Director for Grad Student Affairs. He has a history of student advocacy, clinical informatics, & policy analysis and helped cofound the VSHAC with Joy and Liz during the Summer of 2023. He hopes through the VSHAC to educate Stanford Students on Vaden’s resources and drive them to high-value, low cost care to help curb the ballooning costs of Stanford’s student health insurance.

Liz Park (she/her)

Liz Park (she/her) is a fourth year PhD candidate in chemistry and ChEM-H CBI Fellow interested in neuroscience and chemical biology. She recently served as co-chair of the ASSU Graduate Student Council (GSC), where she helped create the VSHAC and address various aspects of student affordability on campus. She hopes to continue addressing affordability issues (especially for unfunded, masters, and professional students) through healthcare advocacy.

How can you join?

We meet with Vaden monthly on Wednesday evenings, 6-7pm (usually near the 15th of the month). Meetings are hosted on zoom and are invite only. You can join or present at a VSHAC meeting by emailing VSHAC@ASSU.stanford.edu. For specific concerns or reports that do not require joining a VSHAC meeting, please use the concern form below. The VSHAC will be accepting applications for general membership during early Fall 2024.

What resources do we have?

- Vaden ServiceNow Ticket (The ONLY official way to report misadjudications or healthcare concerns directly to Vaden)
- VSHAC Concern Form (For the VSHAC to bring your insurance or healthcare concern to Vaden administration AFTER completing a ServiceNow Ticket — miscellaneous or general concerns can also be reported here)
- Annual Cardinal Care Survey (will be posted Late Fall)
- VSHAC General Membership Application (will be posted Late Summer-Early Fall)

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