Global One Health
One Health is a guiding framework that recognizes the interconnectedness of the health of humans, other animals, and the environment and works to holistically improve health across these systems. One Health perspectives are essential for addressing complex challenges, including emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases shared between people and animals, sustainable agricultural systems for global food security, clean and safe water, threats posed by climate change, and biodiversity conservation for healthy and functioning ecosystems.
The MS in Global One Health integrates NC State’s diverse disciplinary strengths to train students in applied problem-solving for current and future health challenges in North Carolina, the United States, and the world. The degree includes a thesis option for students intending to continue in a research-related field and a non-thesis option for students intending to immediately enter the workforce. Students pursuing the thesis option will lead independent One Health research projects under the advisement of faculty from different colleges and disciplines at NC State. Students pursuing the non-thesis option will participate in experiential learning opportunities (e.g., internships) within the One Health realm and will complete a capstone project based on their experiential learning, guided by their faculty advisor and committee. All students will learn from their peers in the program through a cohort-based structure.
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Admission Information
The MS in Global One Health follows the standard Graduate School admissions requirements. To be considered for admission in full graduate standing, applicants must have:
- a four-year bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) from a regionally accredited college or university. Exceptions to standard accreditation may be granted for applicants with international degrees, including applicants with three-year degrees from institutions in Europe participating in the Bologna Process.
- a GPA of at least 3.00 (on a 4.00 scale) in their undergraduate degrees.
Submission of GRE General Test scores is optional.
Applicant Information
- Delivery Method: On-Campus
- Entrance Exam: None
- Interview Required: None
Application Deadlines
- Fall: priority deadline February 28; rolling applications accepted until June 25
Faculty
- Alice Cheng
- Tara Harrison
- Maricar Aguilos
- Angela Allen
- Sankar Arumugam
- Justin Baker
- Amay J Bandodkar
- Sue Barcinas
- James Barnes
- Tal Ben-Horin
- Meg Blanchard
- Michael Bradshaw
- Zachary Brown
- Jennifer J. Carroll
- Mallory Choudoir
- Carter Clinton
- Elisa Crisci
- Nathan Crook
- Christpher DePerno
- Huiling Ding
- Alexandra Duffy
- Basheerah Enahora
- Ayse Ercumen
- Christopher Galik
- Reza Ghiladi
- Jessica M. Gluck
- Carlos C. Goller
- Andrew Grieshop
- Raymond Guiteras
- Leila Hajibabai
- Angela Harris
- Christine Hawkes
- J. Aaron Hipp
- Skylar Hopkins
- Francis de los Reyes III
- Ram Janakiraman
- Roland Kays
- Saad Khan
- Moses Khisa
- Sung Woo Kim
- Serena Kim
- Manuel Kleiner
- Stephanie Kulesza
- Cristina Lanzas
- Nathalie Lavoine
- Catherine LePrevost
- Jay Levine
- Gregory A. Lewbart
- Xingcheng Lin
- Frank J Louws
- Lucian Lucia
- Kavita Mathur
- Maria Mayorga
- Katherine McKee
- Aram Mikaelyan
- Aura Ankita Mishra
- Roger Narayan
- Natalie Nelson
- Lokendra Pal
- Celen Pasalar
- Nils Peterson
- Jeff Pollack
- Bill Rand
- David Rasmussen
- Michael Reiskind
- Martha Burford Reiskind
- Sarah Rhea
- Jacelyn Rice-Boayue
- Jennifer Richmond-Bryant
- Traci Rose Rider
- Maria Rodgers
- Jen Runkle
- Amit Sharma
- Seema Sheth
- Debjani Sihi
- Felipe Carvalho da Silva
- Katharina Stapelmann
- Anna Stepanova
- Kathryn Stevenson
- Sid Thakur
- Lin Walker
- Qingshan Wei
- Jory Weintraub
- Susan White
- Anna E. Whitfield
- Minliang Yang
- Jeff Yoder
- Haotian Zheng
- Kaixiong Zhou
- Yi-Hui Zhou
Courses
Introduction to Global One Health provides students with foundational skills in interdisciplinary approaches to solving complex One Health problems. Topics covered include the history of One Health, defining the components of One Health systems (human, animal, plant, environmental, and ecosystem health), and global challenges where the One Health framework can be employed. The course emphasizes learning and articulating One Health philosophy, theory and frameworks, and developing holistic approaches to problem solving in teams. In addition, the course highlights the importance of community engagement, encouraging students to collaborate with local and global communities to design culturally relevant and sustainable solutions to One Health problems. Through a combination of lectures, discussions and collaborative problem-solving activities, students will apply One Health philosophy and frameworks.
Typically offered in Fall only
Citizen science involves collective efforts that produce discoveries that scientists cannot achieve alone. Through project-based learning, students will become familiar with academic and gray literature across disciplines about citizen science and other forms of participatory research such as community mapping, volunteer monitoring, crowdsourcing, participatory sensing, and community-driven science. Students will critically examine ethical, legal, and emergent issues, and analyze theory and practice with particular attention to data quality, informal science learning, and democratization of science in society.
Typically offered in Spring only
Students in this course gain hands-on experience in project management by organizing, implementing, analyzing, and assessing a citizen science event. With NC State Libraries as a partner in shaping the theme for an annual event to engage the student body, student work individually and in teams to facilitate engagement in an existing citizen science project. Activities might include recruitment presentations in residential villages, undergraduate courses, and public events, tabling and project demonstrations during the event, preparing data visualizations for individual report-backs and collective data summaries, and assessing measurable outcomes. The annual events will help NC State become a data-rich campus.
Prerequisite: PSC 550
Typically offered in Spring only
This course explores the intersection of human, animal, and environmental health, promoting an understanding of health as an inexorably linked system requiring interdisciplinary collaborative efforts. Co-listed at UNC-CH Gillings School of Global Public Health and Duke University School of Medicine, the course includes participants from the three institutions, as well as interested members of the public. It is held once weekly in person during the evening at NC Biotechnology Center, RTP. Enrollment requires graduate student standing at NCSU, professional student standing within the College of Veterinary Medicine, or senior undergraduate standing with the permission of the instructor(s). Students can register for two or three credit hours. Students registering for three credit hours will also participate in a weekly online synchronous seminar.
Restriction: Graduate Student standing at NCSU, professional student standing within the College of Veterinary Medicine, or senior undergraduate standing with the permission of the instructor(s).
Typically offered in Fall only
This course is a one credit course to be taken in the final semester of the Global One Health master's program. Graduating students will have an opportunity to both give and receive peer-to-peer feedback on their theses, develop applications and CVs for their next career steps, and reflect on their experiences in the degree program. Restricted to students in the MS in Global One Health.
Prerequisite: GOH 519 and GOH 520 and GOH 586. Restricted to students enrolled in the proposed Master's of Science in Global One Health (MS-GOH).
Typically offered in Spring only
This is a one credit class in which a group of students, guided by faculty, explore a topic in One Health by reading the primary literature. Topics vary depending on the faculty participating and the semester.
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing
Typically offered in Fall, Spring, and Summer
Students will take either GOH 695 or GOH 693, but not both, depending on whether they are pursuing a thesis or non-thesis degree option.
Graduate Standing, Advisor permission
Typically offered in Fall, Spring, and Summer
Students will take either GOH 695 or GOH 693, but not both, depending on whether they are pursuing a thesis or non-thesis degree option.
Graduate Standing, Advisor permission
Typically offered in Fall, Spring, and Summer
This is a special topic, 1 credit discussion course that will explore the interdisciplinary origins and interdisciplinary foundations of Global One Health, as well as delve into its utility as a framework for analyzing emergent issues in our modern world. The format of the course is faculty and student led discussions with the goal of reviewing a topic in One Health with a written product at the end of the course.
R: Graduate Standing
Typically offered in Spring only