This study aims to address the influence of Popular Extension in university education in health for SUS, considering the experiences of a nursing student. It will be considered the learnings acquired in the activities developed by the Projeto Educação Popular e Atenção à Saúde da Família (PEPASF): home visits, weekly meetings and community political activities. The weekly home visits approaches the students to the popular world, by creating ties, and making them develop new ways of thinking and doing health; the weekly meetings work the principles of interdisciplinary towards integral health; and in the spaces of community articulation the students engage in conflicts and learn to stimulate popular participation. The Popular Front Extension is an alternative to teaching at the university that has contributed to a health training consistent with the principles of the SUS.