Our Vision and Strategic Plan

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Our Shared Values

The Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health is endowed by Dr. Karl E. Peace as a tribute to his wife and an enduring celebration of her life characterized by ‘a zeal for excellence, consideration of others, intelligence and scholarship, honesty, kindness and humility.’ In honor of Dr. Hsu, the faculty, students and staff of the JPHCOPH commit to demonstrate these values in our behavior toward one another and to those that we serve.

In 2007 the JPHCOPH Students, Faculty and Staff worked together to clarify the following list of shared core values. These values serve to guide decision making for our workforce development, research, professional service and community engagement activities.

We will also use these values to help us in choosing the right path.

• Excellence in research, service and instruction.
• Passion for improving the health of rural communities and underserved populations.
• Responsibility for promoting health equity and eliminating health disparities in rural communities and underserved populations.
• Commitment to community involvement.
• Collaboration for problem solving.
• Commitment to developing as a “Learning Organization.”

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Our Goals

Student Success

Support students in achieving their academic, personal, and professional potential by providing a wide range of opportunities for engagement.

• Recruit high-quality students who are committed to improving public health.
• Increase retention of students and encourage timely progression to degree completion.
• Support student development to ensure success in the public health workforce.

Teaching and Research

Create a culture of integrated teaching, research, and creative scholarly activity with an emphasis on reducing health inequities and disparities among rural and underserved populations.

• Evaluate the capacity of current academic programs to meet the needs of the public health workforce.
• Promote and invest in faculty development to maximize excellence in teaching.
• Develop mutually beneficial partnerships with a diverse range of local, regional, national, and international organizations and communities to enhance teaching.
• Increase research and scholarship activities of faculty and graduate students.
• Improve research opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students.
• Develop mutually beneficial partnerships with a diverse range of institutional, local, regional, national, and international organizations and communities to enhance research and scholarship.

Inclusive Excellence

Support a diverse faculty, staff, and student population in working toward global health equity.

• Advance the College’s commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion for all faculty, staff, and students.

Operational Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Sustainability

Provide an environment that facilitates faculty, staff, and student success and nurtures collegiality and the achievement of excellence.

• Provide a positive, inclusive work environment for all faculty and staff that encourages creativity, rewards excellence, and fosters high morale.
• Develop sustainable, transparent, and inclusive financial and budgeting models to be a responsible steward of all funding sources.
• Provide resources to support student success and scholarly activities.

Community Engagement

Foster collaborative partnerships to address health inequities and disparities in rural and underserved communities.

• Increase community partnerships and collaborations congruent with the JPHCOPH mission.

Last updated: 12/18/2023