Strategies to Achieve Our Goals
By implementing this plan, the Gillings School will be in an excellent position to capture resources from new federal public health investments and maximize benefits for communities as we make a meaningful difference in health equity and outcomes.
- Strengthen Gillings’ practice leadership and infrastructure so we can harness our capacity to make a difference in health equity outcomes in N.C. and with global partners
- Implement key initiatives with high potential for impact
- Fund practice from a variety of sources
- Further incentivize practice to enable more interested faculty, staff and students to engage; and
- Measure our contributions to solving health problems, and communicate annually Gillings’ practice impact with meaningful data, analysis and stories that illuminate the difference we make.
Progress Tracker
The Gillings School six-year practice strategic plan, approved in July 2022, provides a roadmap for action. Gillings elevates practice as equal with research and teaching to help make North Carolina the healthiest state in the nation and to advance health globally.
The practice vision, goals and strategies were developed by the Gillings Practice Task Force after interacting with over 175 people across faculty, staff, students, alumni, friends, and stakeholders. The interactive progress tracker provides periodic updates about the steps we have taken to make a meaningful difference in health equity and outcomes.
A bubbling innovation for kids with visual impairment
Halima Hasan, a graduating senior in health policy and management, is part of App Team Carolina, a student iOS development team that worked with teachers of students with visual impairments to design an app to improve the reading skills of children with Cortical Visual Impairment.
