Shaping and Sustaining Minnesota's Health: A New Covenant to Guide Health Education, Research, and Outreach

The Academic Health Center of the University of Minnesota is one of the nation’s most comprehensive centers with schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health, and veterinary medicine and programs in the allied health sciences. It is one of only nine such centers in the United States and, thus, is in an almost unique position to play a leadership role in establishing a new paradigm of health education, research, and service. Our future rests on maintaining and furthering the excellence of our individual schools and on leveraging their strengths in new multidisciplinary efforts to improving the state’s health