The mission of the Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, also known as the Hudson College of Public Health, is to protect and improve the health of the people of Oklahoma and other nations through: education, public health workforce development, and cutting-edge research; translation of research and scholarship into public health practice and service and; development and advocacy of evidence-based health management and policy. The primary goal of the Achieving a Healthy Oklahoma initiative is to ensure that the state of Oklahoma has the resources, public health workforce, and strong health care system to address existing and future health threats, as well as to reduce health disparities within the state.