Our Mission

The mission of Saint Augustine's University’s Center for Allied Health & Health Disparities Institute is to prepare competent, compassionate, culturally-sensitive healthcare professionals. Saint Augustine's University seeks to graduate healthcare professionals with the ability to provide their knowledge and expertise in enhancement of the health of the public and the advancement of the profession.

The programs in this division promote critical thinking, active participation in the learning process and service to the community while adhering to ethical standards expected from each profession.

Particular emphasis has been placed on the provision of educational opportunities to promising and ethnically diverse students. Saint Augustine’s University's Center for Allied Health and Health Disparities Institute takes great pride in selecting highly qualified faculty who through their teaching and research, are committed to training qualified health care professionals who will play an important part in reducing the existing health disparities by delivery of quality health care in the United States and abroad.

Educational Philosophy

The division’s educational philosophy is to promote excellence in education by instilling attributes of competence, ethics, intellectual leadership and professionalism to meet the demands of current healthcare system, community responsiveness and professional growth.

Program Goals

• To recruit and educate qualified and motivated and ethnically diverse students to serve as competent, compassionate and effective healthcare providers of the future.
• To produce quality health professionals who are competent and culturally-sensitive practitioners, critical thinkers, problem solvers, active life-long learners, and effective communicators.
• To recruit, retain, and advance a team of faculty members who are competent in the medical and health sciences, research and clinical practices deemed essential for the training and education of the students in this division and its programs.
• To maximize the level of community service provided by the faculty, students, and staff that promotes and addresses health disparities in communities and issues related to the promotion of health and wellness at local, national, and international levels.