Submitted by Paul Brown (UC Merced) on May 7, 2014 - 7:05am
Last revised by Brad Bulger on September 29, 2020 - 6:02pm.
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Executive Summary:
'Human health sciences' is currently a major research and education area at UC Merced. This Strategic Focusing Initiative (SFI) outlines how four proposals from the first round—Healthy Development (Psychological Sciences), Public Health, Health Sciences Research Institute (HSRI), and Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB)—have been combined into a single joint vision how to achieve excellence in research and education related to human health sciences at UC Merced by 2020. We have linked this proposal to other concurrent proposals, thus demonstrating the relevance of human health sciences to many areas on campus and the potential for human health sciences to expand in the future. Our goal is for UC Merced to be world renown in human health sciences research and education by 2020, and this proposal describes what is needed to consolidate and build on upon our achievements to date. We propose to achieve this goal by i) focusing our research and teaching on health issues pertinent to the underserved populations in San Joaquin Valley (SJV), a focus that will bring us national recognition, utilize the existing strengths in the region and at UC Merced, and fulfill our unique mission within the UC system, ii) achieving greater coordination, efficiency, and effectiveness in the development of human health sciences by advancing leadership and establishing a structure for making decisions regarding the future of human health sciences research and teaching, and iii) identifying the high priority health research facilities that will be needed to achieve this goal.
Initiative Description:
Human health is represented across a broad range of systems from cells to society, including genes, organ systems, behavior patterns, human relationships, and environmental context. Our proposal consolidates human health sciences research and education at UC Merced, representing an inter-disciplinary collaboration among several existing and emerging faculty groups and programs. In the first phase of the strategic planning initiative, 10 proposals were classified as relevant to health, with four having human health as their central focus: Psychological Sciences/Healthy Development, Public Health, HSRI, and MCB. This proposal combines these four key proposals, but also identifies the pathway in which other groups and programs on campus can join in the development of human health sciences research and education.
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