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Strategic Plan
Goal 1
Prepare the next generation of public health leaders through rigorous educational programs and robust student support services
Develop a strong MPH alumni network to advise faculty on quality of training for career opportunities and for student networking in behavioral and community health sciences
Increase selectivity of doctoral admissions from top 30 percent to top 10 percent and increase number of applicants from 30 to 60 yearly
Goal 2
Expand knowledge in the field of public health through scientific inquiry and innovation
Invest in new faculty working on the frontiers of behavioral and community health sciences: computational modeling and simulation of health behavior∙neural basis of behavior, including experimental paradigms for studying health behavior social determinants of health, with focus on reduction of health disparities
Goal 3
Advance the health of populations across the lifespan through faculty service, in cooperation with partners at the regional, national, and global levels
Reinvigorate Center for Health Equity through new partnerships with community stakeholders and new initiatives to reduce health disparities by focusing on excess mortality at critical points in the lifespan: infancy (low birth weight, preterm birth), adolescence (community violence), and midlife (cardiovascular disease)
Goal 4
Secure adequate resources and promote operations effectiveness
Increase proportion of faculty with externally funded research annually from 50 percent to 80 percent; increase NIH component of depart