Strategic Priorities

STRATEGIC PRIORITY 1
Educate the Next Generation Healthcare Workforce
A diverse future healthcare workforce is needed to serve communities with cultural expertise; interprofessional education and practice (IPEP) will prepare current and future health workers to work as teams to meet California’s needs.

Initiatives

Informatics & Technology (PHIT) Workforce Development Program

An impactful Public Health specialized studies program to reach vulnerable populations through informatics, data analytics and health technology.

Translating Engineering Advances to Medicine – Doctors (TEAM-DOCs)
IPEP Collaborative

The UCI IPEP Collaborative seeks to transform health professions education and health care delivery by fostering community-centered partnerships, collaborative learning, interprofessional research and continued interprofessional practice advancements. Learn More.

VCHA Future Healthcare Workforce Work Group

Our Work Group on Future Healthcare Workforce will provide guidance on how to create career paths for students, including UCI undergraduates, and develop recommendations on the future healthcare workforce.

Healing Without Delay (UCI Health team-based care)
STRATEGIC PRIORITY 2
Discovery and Implementation
Advance health through basic, translational and clinical research innovations where UC Irvine can uniquely address critical local and national needs.

Initiatives

Development of a physician-scientist pipeline
Continued increase in annual research awards; including clinical trials

Health Affairs research awards have increased 77% over the last five years. In 2022-2023, fiscal year research awards totaled $384 million across Health Affairs.

Samueli Endowed Chairs

By creating perpetual support for researchers in integrative health, Susan and Henry Samueli are generously advancing integrative health in Orange County and beyond.

STRATEGIC PRIORITY 3
Accelerate Precision Care
Improve healthcare quality, safety, equity, cost and policy using big data.

Initiatives

Institute for Precision Health

The IPH consolidates expertise across UCI in the application of data science, machine learning-artificial intelligence, genomics-multiomics and public health measures to individualize healthcare. It confronts the linked challenges of health inequity and the high cost of care. 

Creation of a UCI Center for Bioethics Institute

Bioethics involves interdisciplinary training in addressing moral and ethical issues that arise in both the public and private sectors. It is a broad field that encompasses a full range of topics including the ethical implications of stem cell research, abortion, medical aid-in-dying, organ transplantation and more.

STRATEGIC PRIORITY 4
Advance Health Equity
Deploy strategies to achieve health equity for individuals, families and communities.

Initiatives

PRIME-LC, PRIME LEAD-ABC

Our Program in Medical Education for the Latino Community (PRIME-LC) and Program in Medical Education for Leadership Education to Advance Diversity – African, Black and Caribbean (PRIME LEAD – ABC) create leaders and physician-activists who aspire to work in underserved communities. Learn More.

FQHC partnership and integration of COHS units

UCI Health Family Health Centers, our Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) in Santa Ana and Anaheim, garner national recognition from the Health Resources and Services Administration as a Health Center Quality Leader.

Health Equity Collaborative (involvement across all units in Health Affairs)
STRATEGIC PRIORITY 5
Innovate in Healthcare Service and Lifelong Wellness
Lead the emerging discipline of integrative whole-person health and expand access as a regional provider by creation of UCI Health — Irvine and alliances across Orange County.

Initiatives

BraveNet Collaborative
Co-Chair position

UCI Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute co-leads the BraveNet Practice-based Research Network.

Mussallem Nutritional Education Center

A broadcast-ready, gourmet teaching kitchen in the Susan Samueli Intgrative Health Institute advances culinary medical eduation by blending the art of food and cooking with evidence-informed medical practices. 

Ocular Stem Cell Transplant Program

Launched first and only ocular/corneal disease stem cell transplant program west of the Mississippi at Gavin Herbert Eye Institute.