To partner with the community to enhance community capacity for prevention and conduct policy-relevant health research.

The mission of the Center for Community Health is to partner with the community, conduct policy-relevant health research, and enhance community capacity for prevention.

• Work collaboratively with the community
• Facilitate interdisciplinary, policy-relevant research
• Translate research into practice and policy
• Enhance community capacity for prevention
• Improve population health, with a special focus on vulnerable populations
• Eliminate health disparities
• Build trust in the community

• Promote and foster interdisciplinary broad-based partnerships
• Work in concert with the community to identify needs and assets
• Share research and evaluation findings with community stakeholders
• Foster health-promoting policies
• Create replicable models of change to improve population health