Our Mission: The 3 Pillars of Health Justice
The goal of Health Justice & Community (HJC) is to provide a rigorous, foundational education that will enable students to not only understand the way that health is constructed in relation to power but also to seek different ways of knowing and engaging justice.
HJC is grounded in the following three principles of health justice:
Community-based Healing
The healing of individuals is contingent on the healing of social ills.
Unconditional Care
Forms of health care that ration care based on demonstrations of deservingness and normative values are harmful.
Care for the Collective
Collective care based on mutual social relations must center the most vulnerable and precarious.
Health Justice & Community offers interdisciplinary and experiential courses that generate innovative knowledge about health justice by centering knowledge produced by those who are most impacted. The department is committed to maintaining a student-centered approach to undergraduate education that continuously blends theory and praxis. Hands-on research, internships, and independent studies that allow students real world engagement, training, and collaboration are a core part of the HJC experience.