Mission & Vision
Mission Statement
To Educate Pharmacy Practitioners and Leaders,
To Serve as a Catalyst for Innovations and Discoveries
in Pharmaceutical Science and Practice
for the Promotion
of
Health and Wellbeing, and
To Deliver Quality Patient Care
Goals
UHH-COP mission is predicated on four over-arching goals:
1) Implement academic curricula that lead to a flagship Pharm. D. program, which produces graduates committed to serving people via science-based practice.
2) Accountability to the Institute of Medicine’s core competencies for the health professional workforce.
3) Conduct research that advances pharmaceutical sciences and makes a difference for humanity inclusive of effects on global health.
4) Cultivate culturally competent, intellectually inquisitive, self-directed, caring pharmacists, who are critical thinkers, problem solvers and life-long learners in a changing healthcare environment.
Vision Statement
The College of Pharmacy strives for pre-eminence in two domains:
1) Be recognized among the top 25 Pharmacy programs in the USA.
2) Evidence of scholarship via funded research programs and innovative pharmaceutical care programs to serve individuals, families and communities.
This vision will be attained by:
A) Advancing excellence in pharmacy practice through translational research programs designed to enhance pharmaceutical healthcare in the State of Hawaii, the Pacific Region and throughout the world.
B) Harnessing the unique and creative energies of Hawaiian, Asian Pacific Islanders and other diverse cultures to create pharmaceutical experiential experiences, for applications to global health and health services research among students, faculty and the larger community.
C) Serving Humanity through pharmacy leaders and scholars whose practice and scholarship is imbued by Humanistic values.
Values
A values framework underpins the COP mission and vision in its commitment to building a culture of quality and excellence in pharmacy practice and pharmaceutical sciences via enactment of five values:
1. Ethics underlies responsibility and accountability to standards in ensuring safe, quality, healthy environments for education, conducting research, providing pharmaceutical healthcare services, and sustaining livelihood. The COP thrives upon ethical decision-making and morality.
2. Community is cultivated through spaces of collaborations and places of meaning, respect, openness, freedom and creativity. The COP is rooted in humanism.
3. Diversity among people, cultures, theories, practices, institutions permeate 2lst century health care. The COP embraces and celebrates diversity, with a niche in cultural diversity.
4. Scholarship is the passion and outcomes of academic and professional life. The COP’s quest for quality and excellence affirms scholarly pursuits.
5. Life-long learning is the pathway to stimulating pharmacy practice on a continuum of development and advancing pharmacy as a science and profession. The COP is nurtured via the continuum of lifelong education.