Archived Mission: June 27, 2007

The School of Pharmacy at the University of California, San Francisco is dedicated to maximizing human health and well-being by educating doctoral and postdoctoral students in pharmacy and in the pharmacy-related sciences, advancing scientific discovery, caring for patients, serving the public, and advocating on the public's behalf. The School takes seriously its specific responsibilities to:

• Sustain a culture of understanding, inclusion, equity and respect for the perspectives that all individuals bring to the teaching, learning, research, and patient care environments.
• Recruit and encourage a faculty, staff, and a student body that reflect diversity in gender, age, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status; and by their make-up demonstrate our commitment to individuals from historically underrepresented minority groups.
• Draw upon the breadth of our School's diverse clinical community to better reduce racial, ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in health.
• Educate PharmD professional students as compassionate, innovative, flexible leaders in the pharmaceutical care of individual patients and the community as a whole, clinicians who think independently while working collaboratively and who demonstrate a commitment to the lifelong learning required to remain experts in the safe and optimally effective use of drug products in patients
• Educate PhD graduate students to understand and apply concepts, work collaboratively, and think beyond the scope of their specific disciplines in order to become accomplished scientists who are experts and leaders in drug discovery and development
• Recruit and develop effective, dedicated, scholarly teachers who inspire their students to pursue lifelong learning in the health sciences and work in the service of human health