- The main concern of CEGSS focuses on health inequities, social exclusion and their determinants.
- Knowledge is generated through collective action, mediated by economic, social and political contexts.
- The social order and power relations mean that some populations are favored and others excluded from the benefits of this knowledge.
- Opposing social exclusion by supporting the development and knowledge acquisition of marginalized populations as an ethical imperative.
- The dissemination of knowledge is as important as the activity of producing it.