Vision
To
be a world class academic medical centre for women's health.
Mission
To initiate,
develop, facilitate, and promote excellence in research, education, policy
and health service delivery for diseases and conditions that affect women's
health.
Goals
To
initiate interdisciplinary and interspeciality collaborations in research,
education, policy and health service delivery projects that recognize
the broad biological, psychological, social, economic and community determinants
of health and disease.
Research
To
identify, promote, conduct and disseminate research into diseases and
conditions which are unique, more prevalent or more serious in women than
in men or which are major causes of women's ill health. To promote gender
specific and gender comparison projects and to encourage analysis of databases
for possible gender effects.
Education
To create,
apply and disseminate new knowledge to the public and health professionals,
for the well-being of women specifically pertaining to the prevention,
epidemiology, course of disease, treatment, access to treatment, quality
of life, prognosis of diseases and conditions that affect women. To help
incorporate gender based biology and the social determinants of women's
health into the curriculum of health professionals and academia.
Policy
To
advocate that women are appropriately represented in biomedical/biobehavioural
research as both subjects and researchers. To facilitate development and
promotion of policy to improve women's health locally, provincially, nationally,
and internationally.
Services
To
advocate for and facilitate the development of services within the community
and the hospital to enhance the exemplary and compassionate care of women.
To build strategic alliances and infrastructure to develop and nurture
an excellent women's health program. To use new technologies and knowledge
for the benefit of women's health.
