Haseeb Riaz
Haseeb Riaz is a medical student, who over the past 2 years has co-founded and developed a non-for-profit organisation called MAN UP, which provides peer to peer education around healthy masculinity to high school aged boys. The organisation aims to address toxic masculinity through workshops and presentations that engage young boys in high school to investigate their ideals of masculine culture, mental health and relationships.
During his undergraduate degree, he was also heavily engaged with the Dr YES program, which provides sexual health, mental health, and alcohol/drug related health education to high school students, where he was a Project Coordinator in 2019. In 2022, he was appointed as the co-chair WA Ministerial Youth Advisory Council, and also sat on the Australian Medical Students’ Association national executive and board as the National Treasurer.
In 2023, he is the Deputy Chair of the Medical Students' Council of WA and also a board member of the Fogarty Foundation, working to improve early childhood education access and opportunity. He is passionate about being an ally to gender equality, and working to encourage young men to engage with dialogues about gender equality, especially in rural settings.