The University Health Sciences Council initiated the first phase of its work to develop a Health Sciences Strategic Plan. There was broad consensus that the council should develop major themes and then build the vision, mission and strategic goals around these themes.
The council developed five themes around which we are organizing faculty focus groups to more fully determine the feasibility of development of the themes in the context of the three missions of teaching, research and clinical care/service. The thematic areas are:
- Rural Health
- Global Health
- Health Informatics and Prevention
- Nano-Medicine
- Environmental Health (to include, biological and chemical factors, as well as, natural resource impacts – air quality, access to clean water and water sanitation, and energy resources)
Louise Sandmeyer and Mike Dooris from the Office of Planning and Institutional Assessment will be conducting the focus group meetings in mid June. Please direct questions to Heidi Watson, Health Sciences Liaison Officer, at
hwatson@psu.edu.
