Mission, Vision, Values, and Goals

The Center for Health, Engagement, and Transformation’s (CHET) mission is to foster innovative, transdisciplinary and impactful research and training to improve the health of the most vulnerable residents of Kentucky and beyond.

• Academic excellence and productivity
• Collaboration and partnership
• Opportunity and community change
• Impact and innovation
• Integrity and respect

• To conduct impactful research that has the potential to reduce well-documented health disparities in cancer, substance abuse, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity, and related risk factors
• To train the next generation of population health researchers in a rigorous, communal, and congenial environment
• To collaborate with community partners to guide and inform CHET’s research and training programs