• To eliminate health disparities among the State's communities and populations
  
• To integrate health, social and economic services for individual well-being
  
• To support healthcare delivery system improvement and accountability

To accomplish this mission we strive to:

• Promote collaborative health policy research
  
• Provide information to decision-makers in an understandable policy context
  
• Conduct applied research on critical health care issues
  
• Promote public knowledge and understanding