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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

“We are not in public health for the times when it is easy to serve those burdened by injustice and disease. We are in public health exactly for the moments when it is hard to do so.”

Abrania Marerro, SM ’22, PhD ’22, Postdoctoral Research Fellow

“Public health isn’t a luxury we can give up. It’s the air we breathe, the food we eat, the spaces we work and play in, the ways we get around. It’s our ability to take care of our kids, our parents, our friends, and ourselves. No matter the challenges, public health is worth fighting for.”

Anna Miller, Senior Communications Manager, C-CHANGE