Our values

Our values are ‘the heart’ – the DNA – of the Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health. They guide us from today to a healthier tomorrow, and are leading in everything we do and don’t do. These are our values:

Extraordinarily flexible

In our journey for health there is no fixed route from here to there. Like curious explorers we convince ourselves and others during the process. Through trial and error – and with attention for each other – we are making the journey to that higher goal in which we all recognise ourselves.

A committed movement

We are not an organisation, but a collective. A group of people moving organically in search of other people whose hearts – like ours – beat faster when they consciously do all the things that they can achieve together. Together we are a movement. An integral movement with a dream!

A lasting difference

We are not driven by effect. We want to make a positive difference in the long term.

We transform our discoveries into new certainties, which help others to journey on, with or without us. This helps us to invest our current knowledge and expertise in the future.

Sincerely healthy

We are sincerely driven by justice. But justice is not always a matter of course. That is why we commit ourselves permanently to equal opportunities for everyone.

Even – and especially – when this means having to bend the rules. After all, equal opportunities always have right of way.

Everyone has their own gift

That which we want to achieve together, simply cannot be done alone. We see the different talents of people who – together with us, and based on equality – make their unique contributions to the joint result.

This is how we act, and how you can recognise us.

If you have any questions, please contact us at aletta rug.nl.