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 that all students, including educationally and economically under resourced students, are exposed to health careers and supported along 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.
Our Values
Leadership: We seek to be leaders in novel ways to attract, support and retain 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 affect their families and communities.
Equity: Open to all students, WIHSE strives for equitable representation of educationally and economically under resourced students in health professional and allied health schools locally and nationally.
Inclusiveness: We champion inclusiveness of all groups, including those who are adversely affected due to disparities in health care and seek to have representation of all voices, especially those often 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 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)
- HCOP Ambassadors
Visit Our Programs to learn more.
