The Center is committed to addressing complex transnational public health issues affecting urban cities and beyond with an emphasis on closing the health disparity gap in underserved communities. To successfully address these challenges, the field requires innovative ways of framing transnational health issues, new tools with which to measure magnitudes and impacts, and new strategies to address them at community, national and international levels. 

In response to this call, the Center fosters and conducts collaborative and transdisciplinary research with global partners through the lens of implementation science, leveraging theories and methods from diverse disciplines to influence global health programs and policy. Sponsored research and implementation science based practice includes an international focus through strategic partnering (e.g. with the UN System, NGO and private sector technical cooperation and management support entities) in major immigrant and refugee population centers.