Center for Urban Population Health

Principles and Values The Center embraces principles and values that support its mission and vision:

• 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 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.

The Center seeks partnerships that embrace similar core values from program development through implementation.

Performance: The Center has experienced tremendous growth since its inception. At any given time the Center supports over 80 university, health care and community investigators. In partnership with over 200 partners, the Center supports over 125 research and education projects and serve on over 70 community-based committees, coalitions and workgroups-helping to address our community’s health disparities and population health concerns.