We will conduct world-class research and develop entrepreneurial frameworks that use our scholarship to tangibly improve societal well-being.
Yale School of Public Health Strategic Plan
2025–2030
Linking Science and Society
Making public health foundational to communities everywhere.
How It All Comes Together—
Our Vision, Mission, Strategic Priorities, and Scholarly Areas of Focus
Through this plan, we foresee a future in which we proactively link science and society, helping communities everywhere to thrive based on a foundation of public health.
Our Strategic Priorities
Create Pathways for Translating Outstanding Science into Local and Global Health Impact Educate Generations of Public Health Leaders We will ensure our students excel in understanding, conducting, and using rigorous science to advance population-level health.
Foster Interconnected, Inclusive, and Interdisciplinary Public Health Communities, Within and Beyond Yale We will invest in building resilient public health communities in our school, at Yale, in New Haven, Connecticut, and beyond.
Shape the Future of Public Health Data Science & Artificial Intelligence We will meld ethics and equity with cutting-edge methods to shape how health-oriented data science is structured and used.
Enhance Trust in the Science and Practice of Public Health We will support our students, faculty members, alumni, staff, and external partners in serving as trusted spokespeople for, and translators of, public health science.
Achieve Strategic Imperatives through Operational and Financial Excellence We will strengthen the administrative and financial management systems that are fundamental to our ability to achieve our mission.
Our Scholarly Areas of Focus
Our areas of focus guide our scholarly pursuits. They serve as areas of scientific excellence, distinction, and influence. They reflect current and aspirational research strengths of our school, the university’s science priorities, and our assessment of the globe’s most pressing health challenges.
How place, space, and climate impact health
Built and natural environments influence diseases ranging from infection, to cancer, to mental illness. We examine how various exposures – environmental, chemical, and social – interact to affect health, and then develop systems-level solutions that improve both environmental quality and human well-being.
Reducing harm from intersecting epidemics
Social, infectious, and chronic disease epidemics mutually reinforce and are often rooted in structural disparities. We develop, evaluate, and disseminate strategies to support communities in their quest for emotional, social, and physical well-being.
Cost of and connection to the health ecosystem
The health ecosystem is a complex web of formal and informal care providers, government agencies, elected officials, nonprofit organizations, and private corporations. We work to optimize policies, incentives, and systems that can drive equitable, efficient, high-quality health ecosystems around the globe.
The health implications of emerging technology
Artificial intelligence tools, genomics, wearable sensors, and other quickly evolving technologies have substantial effects on health, health equity, and health privacy. We create and integrate these tools for social good and define how to protect us from their potential health harms.