The BCCFE is dedicated to improving the health of British Columbians through the development, ongoing monitoring and dissemination of comprehensive research and treatment programs for HIV, hepatitis C, substance use, mental health and other contagious and socially communicable illnesses. This includes a range of health conditions that could be transmitted through social behaviour.

The BCCFE places diseases like HIV and viral hepatitis under the microscope, educates doctors and health care professionals worldwide, and promotes evidence-based social policy to curb high-burden epidemics.