Ending health disparities can bring hope, health, and healing to Michigan and the world

<p><a href="https://strategicplan.msu.edu">MSU Strategic Plan 2030</a> identifies goals within six key themes: student success; staff and faculty success; discovery, creativity, and innovation for excellence and global impact; sustainable health; stewardship and sustainability; and diversity, equity, and inclusion.</p><p>On this edition of MSU Today, we'll be focusing on the sustainable health theme of the plan with its executive sponsor, Executive Vice President for Health Sciences <a href="https://healthsciences.msu.edu/about/beauchamp/index.html">Norman J. Beauchamp Jr.</a> </p><p> </p><p>“Sustainable health is a particularly important component of the strategic plan,” says Michigan State University President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., M.D. “Some of the things we’ve done recently like our <a href="https://share.transistor.fm/s/4b306d21">partnership with Henry Ford Health</a> impact the state of health across the state of Michigan. We need to end health disparities in urban and rural areas in Michigan. Michigan State University can play a critical role in helping to do that.”</p><p> </p><p>How does the plan define sustainable health?</p><p> </p><p>“It’s about hope, health, and healing for all people,” says Beauchamp. “It’s consistent with our land grant mission. All people deserve the opportunity to improve their health and wellness.”</p><p> </p><p><strong>Conversation Highlights</strong>:</p><p> </p><p>“To be sustainable we must train the next generation of individuals who are going to bring health, hope, and healing to all,” continues Beauchamp. “An ethos of health and wellness must permeate the entire campus. It’s about how we enable those who want to improve the health and wellness of others and then how we accomplish that in a sustainable way, day after day for generations to come.”</p><p> </p><p>Innovations that make MSU a leader in sustainable health include the College of Human Medicine’s competency-based education, the College of Osteopathic Medicine’s Street Care program, and the College of Nursi