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.
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
- Justin Baker
- Amay Bandodkar
- Carla Barbieri
- Rodolphe Barrangou
- Tal Ben-Horin
- Edward Breitschwerdt
- Jennifer Capps
- Jonathan Casper
- Benjamin Chapman
- Caren Cooper
- Michael Daniele
- Huiling Ding
- Colleen Doherty
- Natalia Duque-Wilckens
- Ayse Ercumen
- Christopher Galik
- Reza Ghiladi
- Brian Gilger
- Blanton Godfrey
- Suzie Goodell
- Andrew Grieshop
- Raymond Guiteras
- Carol Hall
- Robert Handfield
- Angela Harris
- Aaron Hipp
- Skylar Hopkins
- Jingjie Hu
- Carlos Iglesias
- Francis de los Reyes III
- Kennita Johnson
- Madhusudan Katti
- Roland Kays
- Albert Keung
- Saad Khan
- Sung Woo Kim
- Manuel Kleiner
- Nathalie Lavoine
- Gregory Lewbart
- Frank Louws
- Christian Maltecca
- Maria Mayorga
- Katherine McKee
- Anne Collins McLaughlin
- Adriana San Miguel
- Aram Mikaelyan
- Bryan Ormond
- Monique Pairis-Garcia
- Celen Pasalar
- Nils Peterson
- Bill Rand
- Ben Reading
- Michael Reiskind
- Martha Burford Reiskind
- Maria Rodgers
- Dorith Rotenberg
- Chadi Sayde
- Coby Schal
- Seema Sheth
- Erin Sills
- Anna Stepanova
- Kathryn Stevenson
- Kristen Sullivan
- Siddartha Thakur
- Thomas Theis
- Abraham Vazquez-Guardado
- Qingshan Wei
- Anna Whitfield
- Laura Widman
- Cranos Williams
- Angela Wiseman
- Lirong Xiang
Courses
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 Fall 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
Graduate/professional seminar (with team project) addressing intersections of veterinary medicine, human medicine, and environmental health. Co-listed at UNC CH Gillings School of Global Public Health and Duke University School of Medicine. Includes participants from these three institutions, plus related private-sector members, non-governmental organizations, and government professionals. Its purpose is to facilitate understanding of one health as a system of systems, and promote cross-campus and cross-discipline interactions. Weekly evening course held at NC Biotechnology Center, RTP. Requires graduate student standing at NCSU or professional student standing within the College of Veterinary Medicine. Limit: 15 students per university.
R: Graduate Student standing at NCSU or professional student standing within the College of Veterinary Medicine.
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