Research & Practice Overview

Understanding the determinants of health in populations, how to prevent disease and how to promote health are important facets of the Department of Health Services mission. The faculty support that mission through their involvement in a broad range of activities centered around health services research and practice. They share a long-standing, and successful track record of securing government and private support for projects that range in scope from the local and regional, to the national and international. Much of that work is facilitated by centers and programs that bring investigators, students and others together around topics of mutual interest.