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Goal 1
Prepare the next generation of public health leaders through rigorous educational programs.
Establish a mentoring program for doctoral and post-doctoral students.
Institute a summer Research in Progress seminar series for students.
Implement a formal statistical genetics certificate in collaboration with the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology.
Update the Human Genetics web site to facilitate recruitment, including up-to-date information on faculty interests, thesis abstracts, and student funding.
Incorporate systems thinking and health equity issues into our existing curriculum.
Implement a computational genetics track in the new PhD program in Computational Modeling and Simulation.
Goal 2
Expand knowledge in the field of public health through scientific inquiry and innovation.
Recruit additional junior faculty in the area of genetic epidemiology to expand our existing faculty.
Implement a system for mentoring junior faculty.
Increase and continue and enhance grant applications and manuscripts.
Continue and expand our current research into innovative areas such as emerging genetic technologies, personalized genomic medicine, and the genetics of aging.
Continue and expand our current research into factors that affect health at different ages (ranging from newborns to long-lived individuals) and in populations with different geographic ancestry.
Goal 3
Advance the health of populations through service and through partnerships with regional, national, and global organizations.
Continue and enhance interaction with other schools of the health sciences, Children’s Hospital, Magee-Womens Hospital, Pennsylvania Huntington Disease Society, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Alzheimer Disease Research Center, and similar health organizations.
Develop connections with the new Center for Innovative Science to explore personalized genomic medicine.
Continue and expand our studies and interactions, including providing training opportunities, with researchers and organizations in other countries to enhance the utilization of genetics in global health.
Goal 4
Secure adequate resources and promote operational effectiveness, so as to enhance the school's capacity to fulfill its mission.
Restore and maintain our departmental administrative structure to promote operational effectiveness.
Implement and maintain a virtual machine infrastructure to help meet our departmental computing needs.
Expand existing efforts to generate and maintain alumni and student databases.