Values

Vision

Empowered and brave public health ecosystems ethically addressing the social determinants of health and achieving social and health equity to co-create a thriving planet immune to exploitation.

Mission

We collaborate to strengthen and support public health stakeholders in collaborative efforts to prevent violence against males through research, convening, public mobilization, advocacy and by co-creating transformative learning.

We acknowledge that violence can impact all people and enthusiastically endorse and support the critical work of agencies that respond to and seek to end violence across the gender spectrum. We see these agencies as partners and kindred organizations as we work to respond to and seek to end violence against boys and men.

Statement of Values

Social Justice

• We commit to transformative pursuit of anti-racism, gender equality, health equity, and non-discrimination toward all groups and individuals. We staunchly advocate for freedom and the right to self-determination inherent to all people.

Scientific Integrity

• We commit to transformative research, representative data collection and the equitable redistribution of the fruits of those data. Our decisions and their outcomes will be underpinned by sound evidence.

Co-creation

• We commit to working alongside communities with cultural humility and towards mutually beneficial outcomes.  

Leadership

• We commit to leading boldly and with integrity. We will critically lean into structural barriers to enact change. We will remain ever curious.

 Stewardship

• We commit to responsible purposing of all resources, while modeling commitment to promote planetary health.

Values statement was informed by lived experiences of impacted communities, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The African Banjul Charter, The Center for Public Health Workforce Development, the U.S. Center for Disease Control and other ethically guided literature.