Mission and Vision
Meharry’s mission and vision guide the institution as it builds on its nearly 150-year legacy of excellence in education, research, health care and community service.
Mission Statement
Meharry Medical College is a global academic health sciences center advancing health equity through innovative research, transformative education, exceptional and compassionate health services and policy-influencing thought leadership. True to its legacy, Meharry empowers diverse populations to improve the well-being of humankind.
Core Values
Meharry Medical College is a community of scholars and learners committed to excellence. These are our core values:
- Accountability with transparency
- Equity with inclusion
- Respect with collegiality
- Service with compassion
- Integrity without exception
Vision Statement
- In 2026, Meharry Medical College will:
- Have an enrollment of more than 1,700, including 900 medical students, 500 dental students and 300 graduate students.
- Enroll students in:
- Medicine
- Dentistry
- Biomedical Science
- Public Health
- Health Policy
- Health Economics
- Medical Sociology
- Data Science
- Physician Assistant Studies
- Biomedical Engineering
- Bioinformatics
- Enroll students from across the U.S. and around the world who aspire to improve the lives of disadvantaged populations.
- Have a residential population of at least 1,200 on the “village campus.”
- Be the national model for the delivery of inter-professional training for aspiring students and working professionals.
- Be a leader in data-driven, health equity-focused research in the following areas:
- Cancer
- Educational effectiveness and performance
- Infectious disease
- Mental and behavioral health/substance abuse
- Obesity/cardiovascular disease
- Oral health
- Precision medicine/health
- Be the trailblazer in defining and implementing a new model for delivering value-based, patient-centered health care:
- In Nashville
- In rural Tennessee and the Mississippi Delta
- In urban communities across the U.S.
- Be a national leader in clinical medicine in:
- Cancer
- Infectious disease
- Mental and behavioral health/substance abuse
- Obesity/cardiovascular disease
- Oral health
- Have a network of regional, national and international partners to expand its clinical reach and provide additional educational opportunities for students and residents.
- Have a comprehensive multi-specialty group practice composed of technologically adept primary care and specialist physicians, dentists and oral surgeons, advance practice nurses, physician assistants, pharmacists, optometrists, nutritionists, behaviorists, and community health workers who provide value-based, patient-centered health care.
- Collaborate in the design and implementation of focused synergistic community networks that complement MMC’s education, research and clinical missions and provide leverage for service engagement opportunities.