Pan American Health Organization

**Our Vision** To be the major catalyst for ensuring that all the peoples of the Americas enjoy optimal health and contribute to the well-being of their families and communities. **Our Values** - **Equity:** Striving for fairness and justice by eliminating differences that are unnecessary and avoidable. - **Excellence**: Achieving the highest quality in what we do. - **Solidarity**: Promoting shared interests and responsibilities and enabling collective efforts to achieve common goals. - **Respect**: Embracing the dignity and diversity of individuals, groups and countries. - **Integrity**: Assuring transparent, ethical, and accountable performance. **Our Mission** To lead strategic collaborative efforts among Member States and other partners to promote equity in health, to combat disease, and to improve the quality of, and lengthen, the lives of the peoples of the Americas.