The UC Berkeley MCH Training Program has three overall goals:

• To promote and protect the health status of families, including women, infants, children, children with special health care needs, adolescents, and fathers.
• To prepare health professionals to be leaders in the field with a multicultural, multidisciplinary, community oriented, cost-effective vision of maternal, child and adolescent health.
• To work closely with other MCH programs at the state, local, national and global level to mobilize large scale, synergistic efforts to reduce and eliminate health disparities and the barriers to health that affect MCH populations.

Our MCH Training Program goals reflect the mission of the School of Public Health:

“To develop and apply knowledge from multiple disciplines for the promotion and protection of the health of the human population, giving due consideration to principles of human rights and cultural perspectives that abound in our multi-cultural country and world.”

Moreover, our work is aligned with the mission of the Division of Community Health and Human Development (CHHD), of which MCH is an integral program.