The three-year Fairbanks School of Public Health strategic plan focuses on advancing the public's health and well-being through seven distinct avenues that leverage our strengths in education, innovation, and leadership.
Advancing the public's health and well-being through education, innovation and leadership
Provide premiere, distinctive educational opportunities
- Prepare learners for evolving public health and health care fields
- Expand infrastructure to support programs, instructors and learners
- Increase exposure to and knowledge of public and global health
- Implement innovative educational models Including IPE
- Expand learning beyond the classroom
- Explore sources of external validation, e.g. certification
Cultivate and sustain a purposeful, diverse research portfolio
- Hire and enable a research dean
- Increase collaboration across departments and between schools
- Foster and reward success
- Facilitate student involvement in research
- Ensure capability to respond to new opportunities
- Establish a practice-based research network to solve contemporary challenges
Engage with communities and stakeholders
- Provide education, service and research linked to community needs
- Develop and advocate for effective public health policies
- Partner with communities to improve health equity
- Communicate and disseminate best practices and results
- Increase student/alumni involvement in service, learning and applied experiences
- Integrate a philanthropic mindset across FSPH
Expand and sustain partnerships to improve population health
- Strengthen partnerships with schools and centers
- Increase the school’s value to governmental public health agencies
- Support and enhance population health initiatives of health care delivery systems
- Create and grow a program of public health practice
- Expand portfolio of international relationships and programs
Strengthen organizational effectiveness and stewardship
- Promote excellence in scholarship
- Develop and retain faculty and staff
- Achieve targeted enrollment growth
- Expand financial capacity to achieve our mission
- Create and embody the FSPH identity