Goals

The program's goals that describe strategies to accomplish the defined mission are as follows:

1. Provide professional education built on public health competencies for students.
2. Engage in scholarly activities and research that advance public health knowledge.
3. Participate in diverse community engagement through service, outreach, and partnerships.

Values

Our values mirror the UIS system and guide our mission

1. Student-focused Teaching and Learning: We place student development – fostered through meaningful interactions among students, faculty, staff and the community – at the core of all University activities. We also honor innovative teaching and evidence-based scholarship that promote academic excellence and knowledge discovery.
2. Civic Engagement: We build meaningful relationship that enable us to both learn from and contribute to our local and global communities. We promote collaboration within the campus and outside of campus.
3. Strategic Thinking: We are a proactive learning organization committed to continuous improvement, evidence-based decision-making and innovation.
4. Inquiry: We seek to understand the world around us through the mastery of core skills of excellence in evaluation, analysis and expression; through the acquisition of knowledge; and through the pursuit of scholarship that is challenging and significant. We recognize sound public health science. We share and provide access to knowledge and skills.
5. Diversity: We hold diversity in high esteem and embrace diversity in ideas, disciplines and people. The Department fosters diversity.
6. Integrity: We maintain integrity and exceptional ethical behaviors
7. Accountability: We translate intentions into actions via shared governance and fiscal stewardship, holding decision-makers responsible to our students, colleagues and other stakeholders.