SPHCM Mission
The mission of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine (SPHCM) is to promote better health, prevent illness and injury, and ensure more efficient and cost-effective health care services, through education, research, and service.
Goals
To fulfill its mission, the SPHCM has the following goals:
- To advance knowledge in the public health sciences;
- To train able and effective public health practitioners;
- To train highly competent researchers in the public health sciences; and
- To promote health through involvement with communities.
Objectives
We intend to achieve our goals through meeting the following objectives:
- Recruit and retain outstanding faculty in the range of disciplines and specialties appropriate to our mission;
- Recruit graduate and undergraduate students of the highest academic capabilities who are committed to public health;
- Provide a multicultural setting for public health learning;
- Maintain and improve excellent graduate and undergraduate programs that allow us to produce knowledgeable and effective public health practitioners and researchers;
- Develop new programs in response to new technologies and advances in the public health sciences;
- Develop the infrastructure to support state-of-the-art research;
- Compete successfully for research funding in the public health sciences;
- Increase research and training links and activities with regional research centers, state and local health departments, and other UW schools;
- Develop and sustain formal links with a wide variety of community organizations; and
- Disseminate findings to the public health community.
Values
We value:
- Prevention of disease and injury and the promotion of the public's health;
- Pursuit of knowledge through research and other scholarly activities
- Learning through classroom education and community training;
- Creativity and interdisciplinary approaches in solving public health problems;
- Objectivity and professional integrity in research, education, and service;
- Collaboration, or working with communities to improve health;
- Vigilance, to recognize and forecast threats to public health;
- Diversity and cultural competency; and
- Compassion, equity and social justice in defining and addressing health needs.