![]() Our new long-term partnership with Henry Ford Health System (HFHS) offers tremendous opportunity to improve health care in Michigan and reduce health disparities throughout the state. We also will seek like-minded clinical partners. To address issues around access and acceptance, we will use our community-based approaches, supported by investment and expertise in key areas such as education, nutrition, logistics and the social, behavioral and environmental sciences. ![]() As one example, only 38% of Michiganders with mental health concerns are receiving treatment and more than half of individuals with substance abuse disease are not receiving treatment at all. Our intention is to improve the health of Michigan’s residents and reduce health disparities through delivery of cutting-edge clinical care, innovative public health initiatives and basic and translational biomedical research. ![]() This work is anchored in our land-grant mission and its history of extending the university to improve lives. Our strategy of making greater contributions in sustainable health builds on this approach. Michigan State University has created a national model for improving health and well-being in underserved communities with our groundbreaking Flint public health initiative and an innovative new way to couple medical education and research at our medical school campuses in Grand Rapids and Flint.Ī key component of this dynamic model of research, education and service is developing programs that address needs expressed by the community and working with communities as full partners in the solutions. It also highlighted the critical role of research universities in addressing acute and long-term health issues through advances in clinical care, discoveries in basic and translational research and broad public health measures. The COVID-19 pandemic shone a bright light on inadequacies in our health care system, including those in preparedness and public health infrastructure, in our communication about health issues and particularly in the extraordinary disparities in outcomes between Black and white people in morbidity and mortality during the early phases of the outbreak. These themes will continue as we aim to triple National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control funding within five years. Michigan State’s approach to advancing health and excellence in health education has consistently focused on people, communities, partnerships and innovative thinking.
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