About Us
Our Mission
Liberating all our communities’ brilliant potential to be future healthcare leaders.
Our Vision
We envision a world that embraces the diversity of our communities being reflected in our healthcare providers. By ensuring underrepresented students are exposed to health careers and supported although their path we will have a profound impact on the number of health providers serving in underserved communities and conducting research to help eliminate health disparities and address social determinants of health that disproportionately affect communities of color.
Our Values
Leadership: We seek to be leaders in novel ways to attract, support and retain K-12 students on the path to health careers. We also seek to show them through example how to be leaders in their communities to address health issues that disproportionately affect their families and communities.
Equity: We strive for equitable representation of students of color in health professional and allied health schools locally and nationally.
Inclusiveness: We champion inclusiveness of all marginalized groups who are adversely affected due to disparities in health care and seek to have representation of all voices, especially those oft at the fringes of society and suffering a greater burden of disproportionate health care.
Anti-racist: We recognize the historical foundation on which much of medicine was constructed that has created institutions that minimize or negate the experiences of people of color. We seek to build a new foundation of anti-racist, decolonized healthcare education that incorporates a critical lens on education and builds strong thinkers to explore new ways to deliver health care that improves care for everyone.
Our method to achieve our intended goal is through our “arch of support” mentoring and serving students across our programs until they reach their final career goal of professional school admittance for allied health career job entry. Our enrichment pathway programs within WIHSE serve our students longitudinally over their educational career include:
- Doctor for a Day
- U-DOC
- BRIGHT-UP Summer Science Program
- Summer Health Professions Education Program (SHPEP)
- SHPEP Longitudinal Enhancement (SHPEPLE)
- UW Primary Care Mentorship Shadowing Program
- HCOP Ambassadors
