A project funded by the Health Resources & Services Administration with additional support from a Cooperative Agreement of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Association of American Medical Colleges.

C. William Keck, M.D., M.P.H., Director
Elizabeth Piatt, Ph.D., Assistant Director

Vision

The vision of the center is to improve the health of individuals and communities. We will accomplish this by providing physicians and others concerned with the public's health the opportunity to develop the leadership competencies necessary to work to enhance each other's skills and expertise.

Mission

The Center is an academic/community partnership whose mission is to provide the knowledge, skills and attitudes that medical and public health practitioners will need to lead change in bringing their professions together to improve health and health status. It will do so through activities in teaching, research and service.

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