About CHE

Mission

The mission of the Georgetown University Center on Health and Education is to help realize health equity and educational excellence worldwide.  We seek to achieve this mission through:

1. conducting interdisciplinary research related to understanding and eliminating health and educational disparities;

2. developing and implementing innovative real-world programs and supports to improve the health and educational attainment of individuals, families, and communities;

3. educating health care providers and educators, administrators and policymakers, the media, and parents and individuals about proven strategies to improve health and education outcomes; and

4. developing and evaluating the efficacy of alternative methods of creating sustainable change at the individual, group, and community level to eliminate health and educational inequities.

Partnerships:

• Mississippi Educational Television: Right From Birth
• University of Notre Dame: Child Neglect Prevention Project