To imporve health, health care delivery systems and community health programs through research, education and the development, evaluation and dissemination fo behaviors and a special emphasis on health disparities among underserved ethnic and racial minority populations.

Core Values

• Support and conduct research that improves the health of minority populations.
  
  
• Foster culturally sensitive approaches to health improvement interventions.
  
  
• Integrate the social sciences and humanities in research and health promotion.
   
• Facilitate inter-disciplinary collaboration to produce evidence-based research and decision-making.  
  
  
• Develop culturally informed and scientifically valid research tools.  
  
  
• Commit all resources toward elimination of health disparities.