Mission of Health Sciences South Carolina

The Mission of Health Sciences South Carolina is to conduct collaborative health sciences research to improve health status, education, workforce development, and economic well-being for all South Carolinians.

With regard to health status, we will accomplish this by:

• Translating research results into clinical practice.
• Promoting wellness and implementing disease management programs to reduce disparities in health status.
• Improving patient safety and clinical effectiveness.

With regard to education and workforce development, we will accomplish this by:

• Improving the quality of and access to health-related education.
• Increasing the number of health-related professionals trained.

With regard to economic well-being, we will accomplish this by:

• Attracting a significant increase in funding to SC for health sciences research.
• Attracting nationally prominent scientists to South Carolina, bringing intellectual property to stimulate the state’s knowledge-based economy.
• Creating and attracting health-related companies to South Carolina that will increase highly skilled jobs.