Our staff and faculty joined the Center because of their desire to use their talents, skills and expertise in partnership with providers, community leaders, organizations and residents  in identifying, testing and evaluating solutions to the challenges that prevent communities from realizing their full health potential. 

We believe in...

• Promoting a population health framework as a unifying approach for addressing health determinants, interventions, and outcomes

• Forging equitable and sustainable partnerships with community and academic experts from diverse organizations, backgrounds, and disciplines
• Creating an environment of innovation
• Using research to impact effective policies, programs, and practices
• Fostering the knowledge transfer through clinical and community-based learning
• Reducing health disparities
• Delivering exceptional value by integrating the best available resources and methodologies to address key issues with integrity, objectivity, and responsiveness.