Samueli Institute is a non-profit research organization supporting the scientific exploration of healing processes and their role in medicine, with the mission of transforming health care worldwide.

Our Mission, Vision, and Values

We believe that Samueli Institute can facilitate activities in our society that serve to:

Align whole-person healing with science and action
Create policies that promote wellness
Link productivity and profit to health promotion
Facilitate ways of learning, working and playing that create health and community well-being
Inform a biomedical and health care system that heals as well as cures

Now is the time for us to work together to take what we know about the creation of human health and wellness and translate it into social and individual behavior change. This is Samueli Institute’s mission and the foundation for our vision and values.

Our Mission is to create a flourishing society through the scientific exploration of wellness and whole-person healing.

Our Vision is a world in which healing processes are the formative concept for improving performance, preventing illness, achieving and maintaining wellness, and ameliorating chronic disease.

Our Values

Service to the public: As a nonprofit service organization, Samueli Institute serves as a facilitator of research on wellness and healing—making discoveries, developing relationships, conducting research and building a rigorous science that results in shared knowledge, improved patient care, enhanced resilience and performance, and healthful living.

Scientific exploration: Samueli Institute supports science grounded in observation, investigation, and analysis, and has the courage to ask challenging questions within a framework of systematic, high-quality, research methods and the peer-review process.

Integrity in all we do: Samueli Institute acts with the highest respect for the public it serves by ensuring transparency, responsible management and ethical practices from discovery to policy and application.

Reflection in action: Samueli Institute recognizes that healthy cultural change occurs through the actions of individuals and organizations that balance self-care and reflection with a willingness to take transformative risks and a desire to serve others compassionately.

Sculpture of the Samueli Institute logo by artist,
Connie Fleres

Samueli Institute’s logo is comprised of the letters S and I, shaped in the moebius form, which symbolizes the open boundaries of our research.

The moebius illustrates that important things are often invisible until one takes a different perspective.

The center of the “S” of the logo in the moebius form looks narrow and almost non-existent, until one changes the angle of view, in which case the full significance of its center becomes evident. The lower case “I” of the logo is dotted by a star to convey that the Institute’s research seeks to reach beyond current knowledge in order to explore new frontiers in the science of health and healing.