Strategic Focus
The Center for Health Research Hawaii (CHR-H) embraces the Center for Health Research
Northwest (CHR-NW) Mission and Vision with its own Strategic Focus.
CHR-H Strategic Focus: “Advancing Knowledge to Improve Health of Diverse Populations”
CHR-H Vision: “To be leaders in discovering and advancing knowledge to improve
health of diverse populations through world-leading, innovative, interdisciplinary
research”
CHR-H Mission: To be an international leader in translational research to
improve individual health and to inform health policy through research that creates
knowledge
required to organize, finance, deliver, and evaluate health care in the
public’s interest emphasizing:
- Health Services & Economics
- Health Communication,
Decision-Making, Risk Perception & Use of Technology
- Nutrition & Health
Behavior
- Ethnic Diversity
- Epidemiology
- Disease Prevention
- Lifespan Development
To collaborate with leading researchers from diverse disciplines and institutions;
to establish appropriate institutional linkages to carry out this research; while
maintaining and fostering both professional autonomy and strong linkages to our
primary research laboratory, Kaiser Permanente Hawaii.
Publish research results in the public domain; and disseminate major findings to
the scientific community, to policy makers, and to the health care field.
Support education and training in health research.