Peer Health Exchange gives teenagers the knowledge and skills they need to make healthy decisions. We do this by training college students to teach a comprehensive health curriculum in public high schools that lack health education.Our vision is to give as many teenagers as possible the knowledge and skills they need to make healthy decisions by building a health education organization that serves teenagers nationwide.

In 1999, six Yale undergraduates began teaching health workshops in New Haven public high schools in order to fill the gap left by an underfunded, understaffed district health program. Today, ninety Yale volunteers teach (and often serve as the primary source of) health education in eight New Haven public high schools. In 2003, the founding members of the New Haven group established Peer Health Exchange, Inc. in order to replicate this successful program in other communities with unmet health education needs. PHE's first sites are in New York City, where there are currently only 196 trained health instructors to teach required health courses to 1.1 million public school students (NYC Dept. of Education Press Release,