Mission and Vision

Mission and Vision

Mission and Vision

Our Mission
We work shoulder to shoulder with countries and communities to save lives and improve the health of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people by building strong, resilient, sustainable health systems.

Our Vision
A world where everyone has the opportunity for a healthy life.

The Tao of Leadership

In the late 1960s, MSH founder Dr. Ron O’Connor was introduced to a poem based on the Tao Te Ching, “The Tao of Leadership,” by a Japanese doctor in Nepal with whom he worked, Dr. Noboru Iwamura. Dr. Iwamura embodied the selflessness and humility that inspired Dr. O’Connor and are expressed in the Tao of Leadership. These values still resonate today in our daily work and serve as continuing inspiration to our staff in the many countries where we work.

Go to the people

Live with them

Love them

Learn from them

Start with what they have

Build on what they know.

But of the best leaders

When their task is accomplished

The work is done

The people will say

We have done it ourselves.

– Lao Tzu, “The Tao of Leadership”