Mission and Values
Extending Berkeley’s reach to improve population health, especially for the most vulnerable, and providing the tools to address the pressing public health challenges of our time through:
We center our public health work from a place of service and cultural humility and a commitment to work in community towards the collective production of healthy social and built environments.
We welcome our learning community to bring their full selves, our professional and lived experience, to think critically about the history of our discipline and innovate public health practice on a path to sustainable and creative changemaking.
We strive to grow our program and honor our students, staff, and faculty from a place rooted in justice and equity and charge/invite all members of our community to lead from a pledge to unlearn and dismantle oppression in our efforts to promote health equity.
We cultivate connection through creating a collegial learning environment without walls, embracing the rigor of scientific inquiry together, and sharing the implementation of public health solutions in real time and around the world.
We honor and respect boundaries around personal time, well-being, caregiving, and rest. We support our community around prioritizing joy, not work, when and where you can. We protect space for investment in professional growth and sense of purpose in our work.