Engage
Community Engagement
Serve communities through research and work with community partners to inform and implement our projects.
Applications open
Become a Southern Miss GTEC Scholar.
Build the skills, mentorship, and professional network to lead meaningful cardiovascular health research across Mississippi and the Gulf Coast.
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Our purpose
Research shaped with communities, not just for them.
Our mission is to support transdisciplinary team science, multi-stakeholder partnerships, and workforce capacity to conduct solutions-oriented disease prevention and healthy aging research.
By centering community knowledge at every stage, we build practical pathways to better health outcomes for the people and places we serve.
Our vision
For all Mississippians and Gulf South communities to live longer and healthier lives.
What guides us
Values in action
Our principles shape how we listen, collaborate, learn, and create meaningful change alongside Gulf South communities.
Innovate
Innovative Solutions
Use integrated sciences to design and deliver effective interventions.
Collaborate
Multidisciplinary Collaboration
Foster co-learning across disciplines to holistically tackle real-world problems.
Prepare
Professional Preparedness
Provide a safe environment for students to develop professional skills for their future careers.
Tailor
Tailored Solutions
Recognize that every person and community is unique and deserves solutions shaped to their needs.
Reach
Community Outreach
Create reciprocal benefits as communities are served and students are enriched through community-based research.
Our work
Where research meets real life.
We create spaces for shared learning, support emerging health professionals, and turn research into solutions communities can use.
Connect
Let’s build healthier communities together.
We welcome community partners, researchers, students, and organizations ready to create meaningful change across Mississippi and the Gulf South.