Mission and Vision

The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health's mission and vision:

Mission

Meeting the health needs of Wisconsin and beyond through excellence in education, research, patient care and service.

Vision

To create a superior education, research, and community engagement enterprise that integrates biomedical sciences, care of individual patients, and the health of diverse populations. This new integrated approach will address the evolving health and health care needs of Wisconsin, and in so doing, will serve as a national model.

The UW School of Medicine and Public Health will recruit, admit and graduate a diverse student body; appoint and retain faculty, staff, administrators, residents and fellows from diverse backgrounds; employ a curriculum that includes emphasis on cross-cultural instruction and intercultural communication skills; advance a research agenda in areas of scholarship focusing on diversity and ethnic and racial disparities; and provide support for new and existing programs and resources to advance the diversity mission.