Mission: The Health Sciences Faculty at the Universidad Tecnologica de Pereira trains human talent in disciplines and sciences related to individual and collective health and conditioning factors with a biopsychosocial approach, developing scientific knowledge that benefits people and communities.

Vision: Become by 2019 a center of academic excellence recognized for its achievements in the field of health sciences within a national and international level.

GENERAL OBJECTIVE: To develop scientific knowledge and to train professionals in the field of health in undergraduate and postgraduate with a biopsychosocial approach, responsive to the needs of people and the environment.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

• Strengthen the development of scientific knowledge of health and its biological, social, economic and political issues and apply them to solving environmental needs.
• To train professionals capable of working in health promotion, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation at an individual, family and community levels.
• Develop an administrative process applied to academic programs and the Health Sciences Faculty that achieves greater efficiency and social benefits with the available resources.
• Carry out social welfare activities for all the academic community of the Health Sciences Faculty to promote the harmonious development of the personality.

 Strategies and Policies

• Maintain accreditation of programs
• Provide health projects and programs with social impact (teaching, extension, research and welfare)
• Coordinate the teaching, research, extension and welfare
• To promote academic, learning and research freedom
• Strengthen continuing education
• Coordination with other levels of education
• Continuous improvement of administrative processes
• To establish and maintain the culture of the academic community
• Promote the educational qualifications of teachers
• Strengthen the professional identity
• Strengthen and uplift the college welfare of the faculty members

 Research Interests

 Biological-genetic

• Molecular Biology – Biotechnology
• Neuroscience
• Physiology and Immunebiology
• Drug-genetic
• Infectious Diseases
• Models for morphological science education

Culture and Health

• Society and Community
• History of health and disease
• Social Development
• Humanistic Development
• Bioethics

 Lifestyle and Behavior

• Mental Health.
• Mental Illness
• Health Education.
• Physical Culture
• Recreation
• Psycho-motor

Health Services

• Health Systems
• Health Promotion
• Prevention of Disease
• Care (Diagnosis, Treatment and Rehabilitation)
• Rehabilitation
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Environment

• Ecology and health
• Environmental Sanitation.
• Health, safety and risk control
• Risk management (prevention and disaster care)

 Professional Profile

• Committed to his vocation and the quality of service.
• Able to guide the knowledge acquired into practice teamwork.
• Able to contribute to the health education of the individual, family and community.
• Self learner that continues learning and adapting to changes that occur in a scientific, technical, administrative and social level and able to be involved in its development.
• Underlying the exercise of his profession in the domain of the scientific basis of health sciences while applying scientific reasoning practices and social thought.
• Independent and with moral, legal and ethic responsibility in making decisions as health care professional.
• Respectful of life, applying legal and ethical principles in the practice of the profession of health sciences.
• Solidarity towards the social and health problems of the individual, family and community.
• To identify the determinants of individual and collective health and recognize and apply the principles of holistic health care.
• Facilitator in the search for the welfare of the individual, family and community
• Prepared for the discernment that requires the scientific, human and social practice.
• Respectful of knowledge and role of colleagues and other health team members.
• Critical of the socio-economic, administrative, ecological, cultural and political factors that affect health and professional practice
• Prepared for the use of technology resources in the context of health sciences
• Committed to himself, to the profession, with the health team, with the community and the environment, maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
• Able to participate in solving the main problems of individual and collective health with a holistic approach from the biological, psychological and social perspectives.
• Able to communicate effectively as a professional.
• Ability to understand and participate in the design of public policy and health system.
• Identified and committed with the Health Sciences Faculty and the Universidad Tecnologica de Pereira.

Basic Skills

• Embrace the fundamentals and develop concepts and ideas on health.
• Understand the components of the scientific rationale for comprehensive health care.
• Know the components and develop skills in the biological, psychological and social dimensions of the individual and collective health to perform in different contexts, knowing his/her capabilities and limitations.
• Schedule and implement activities to promote health
• Know, promote and respect the rights to health and life of humans and animals and protect the environment.
• Understand the importance of other sciences and disciplines for addressing health and interact with them with respect for cultural diversity.
• Understand, design and implement intervention strategies related to the health culture.
• Understand the foundations of physical education, recreation and human development to design and implement intervention strategies.

• Know the Health System and its foundations to engage in comprehensive health care and know the subsystem in order to assume critical positions, being proactive in relation to public policy.
• Identify the conceptual elements of social and humanistic developments related to health and get engaged in different training areas with an attitude of solidarity towards different social groups.
• Understand the fundamentals of entrepreneurship and apply them in the design and development of health-related projects
• Understand the fundamentals of epidemiological awareness in order to design and implement activities and models necessary for comprehensive health care.
• Understand, design and implement intervention psychomotor development strategies in living organisms at different stages or cycles.
• Know and apply legal and ethical principles during professional practice with ethical behavior towards the individual and collective health.
• Acquire the basics on sanitation to design and implement intervention strategies related to the preservation, respect, protection and proper maintenance of environmental health.
• Know the basics of hygiene, safety and risk management to implement them while taking self-care measures for all the team and using biosecurity elements on the performance.
• Have the knowledge and implement risk management activities of emergencies and disasters.
• Acquire the fundamentals to design and develop scientific health research.
• Interpret the administration principles and apply them in the management of health services.