Our Vision
NMF envisions a world where everyone can access affordable, high-quality health care and where aspiring health care professionals can pursue careers free from financial limitations.
Our Mission
NMF broadens the pathways to medical education, provides transformative leadership opportunities, and ensures clinical research includes everyone. We deliver programs and support to ensure the future success of medical students and current practitioners.
Our Values
To thrive and make a meaningful impact, NMF celebrates and supports the unique skills and lived experiences its board and team members put into daily practice and upholds the following values in continued service of its communities and stakeholders:
- Compassion—We offer each other respect, humility, and grace.
- Empowerment—We prepare and support all people committed to health equity.
- Excellence—We amplify our North Star of advancing health equity with exceptional talent.
- Faith—We endure in the face of adversity.
- Hope—We are courageous and optimistic about the success of our collaboration.
- Integrity—We are accountable for our mission of serving our community of diverse health care leaders.
- Relationships—We steward trusting partnerships for transformational change.
- Service—We work together to solve the challenges we face.
- Teamwork—We honor and respect our team’s diverse talents.
The Need for NMF
Our goal is to ensure that every American has access to physicians and health care professionals who speak their language, understand their culture, and are committed to working in communities who suffer the most from health challenges.
We do this through health workforce development.
Better Health Outcomes for Everybody
NMF programs provide critical financial support to diverse and deserving medical students to help address the growing shortfall of physicians in this country. The high cost of education in medicine and related health professions is a significant barrier for many, and NMF lessens the financial burden shouldered by our scholars. NMF has awarded over $50 million in scholarships and offers service-learning programs and mentorship opportunities to students of medicine, behavioral health, and related health professions.
Through the NMF Doctors in Clinical Trials Research Program, we train physicians to become Emerging Investigators and lead clinical research. By increasing the number of clinicians who serve as Principal Investigators (PIs), the program seeks to improve patient participation in clinical research trials, ensuring treatments and preventative regimens are thoroughly investigated across all populations.
As NMF fulfills its mission, expanded access to exceptional care will create societal benefits for all.