The primary objective of the School of Allied Health Professions is to provide undergraduate and graduate level, patient-oriented health care professionals across a broad range of disciplines for the State of Louisiana.  The School recognizes that effective health care increasingly requires the melding of personnel, talents, and techniques from a variety of allied health disciplines. The interdisciplinary environment of the Health Sciences Center permits the allied health student to appreciate patient care as a team concept, and to develop the sound working relationships with other health care professionals necessary to assume a role of leadership.
 
Additional objectives of the School  are to develop and maintain programs of investigative studies and research within the allied health disciplines, provide vital human services through direct patient/client care, and to promote the development of programs to meet the continuing educational needs of allied health professionals in Louisiana.