Our Commitment
To build a healthy and just world, OIE commits to:
- model mutual respect and compassion for every community member;
- cultivate diverse, inclusive learning and equitable working environments;
- examine and remediate the practices of marginalization, hate, and othering at Columbia Public Health;
- foster understanding of people’s unique and shared needs;
- build mutually beneficial partnerships across people and communities;
- create learning opportunities of how marginalization, hate, bias, and othering impact public health and the common good;
- teach skills to foster dialogue across differences to prepare current and future public health practitioners and researchers to serve locally and globally.