Population Health and Community Engagement Program
Mission and Strategy
The Population Health and Community Engagement Program’s mission is to improve the health of populations by bringing together diverse disciplines and data to understand and address social, environmental, behavioral, and biological factors on both a domestic and global scale.
Our overall strategy is built on four pillars
1. Collaboration and Community
Fostering partnerships and transdisciplinary research.
2. Research Resources
Providing a portal for data discovery and analysis to enable research.
3. Translation
Turning research into application.
4. Education and Training
Teaching and disseminating ClinTECH Center discoveries.
What Is Population Health?
Population health is the study of relationships between many health determinants and/or health outcomes in large populations. It sits at the intersection of medicine and public health, spanning basic and social sciences, enabling integrated research that encompasses virtually every domain of life and society.