Mission and Vision
Our mission and vision serve as guiding principles that inspire our efforts to educate future leaders, conduct transformative research, and implement solutions to today’s most pressing public health challenges.
Our Vision
Health, dignity, and justice for every human.
Our Mission
The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health works to improve health and promote equity so everyone can thrive. Together, we:
Discover
Research drivers of health, disease, and inequity and develop powerful solutions.
Teach
Train creative leaders to identify, analyze, and tackle challenges to population health.
Engage
Collaborate with policy makers, practitioners, and the public to drive meaningful change.
Our commitment
Members of the Harvard Chan School community are committed to advancing our mission of building a world where everyone can thrive.
“Seeing someone’s health is seeing their humanity. What a gift, to be in a field where you work on honoring the humanity of people you’ll never see or know.”
Gaurab Basu, Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Health
“The work that’s being done in universities . . . [is] laying the foundational groundwork to take our understanding today and turn it into the advances of tomorrow.”
John Quackenbush, Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
“I think public health attracts positive people that are mission-driven, and I see that every day.”
Danny Beaudoin, Deputy Director, Operations