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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.

Initiatives

Initiative #3a: Plan and build a new, identity-defining building

  • Design collaborative spaces – physical and other – that define the identity of the school, and that allow for engagement​ within and outside of YSPH
  • Ensure environmental sustainability, accessibility, and healthfulness of building​
  • Complete a successful transition plan to enhance the sense of community between now and the completion of the new building​

Initiative #3b: Create systems and structures that enhance interconnected, inclusive, and interdisciplinary communities within YSPH

  • Grow opportunities for faculty, staff, and students to engage with one another, both in person and virtually​
  • Define, recruit, and support faculty, students and staff with a wide diversity of lived experiences​
  • Intentionally create space and programming for civil discourse and rigorous interdisciplinary scholarship on public health challenges (See also: 2b)

Initiative #3c: Create systems and structures that enhance interconnected, inclusive, and interdisciplinary public health work across Yale

  • Build financial and administrative support for the full spectrum of dual degrees between YSPH and other Yale schools​
  • Develop research, educational, and practice programming with at least three other schools at Yale​
  • Conduct recurring shared convenings/events with other schools and units at Yale​
  • Continue to advance and enhance university plans for diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging​

Initiative #3d: Create systems and structures that enhance our role within an interconnected, inclusive, and interdisciplinary New Haven and Connecticut public health community

  • With hospital systems, policymakers, community organizations, local groups
  • (See also: 1d, 2d, 4d, 5d, 6d)​