The OSU Health and Environment Modeling Co-laboratory (HEALMOD) is a community of scholars dedicated to convergence research and education related to human health and environmental sustainability.
The initiative is driven by specific and compelling problems deeply integrated across disciplines with respect to theories, methods, data, and research communities.
Purpose
HEALMOD provides a thought space and education hub for:
- Convergence researchers, including:
- Faculty
- Research scientists
- Postdoctoral scholars
- Undergraduate
- Graduate students who are interested in using frameworks such as:
- Ecosocial theory
- Coupled human-natural systems which embrace convergence science to investigate pressing problems related to human and environmental health and sustainability
HEALMOD builds on existing OSU institutional and human resources to propel OSU to the forefront of convergence research by providing the scaffolding to support new convergence research opportunities and the training of the next generation of convergence researchers by offering a transdisciplinary convergence curriculum.
Goals
HEALMOD will make OSU a world-class center for conducting theory-guided computational research into human-environmental health and sustainability and disseminating actionable results and policy recommendations with measurable social impact, thus raising the profiles of public health, and the social sciences (Anthropology, Sociology).
Participants
Administratively, HEALMOD is a collaborative project between research communities in the Colleges of Public Health and Arts and Sciences but will forge strong linkages with other relevant OSU academic centers such as the Infectious Disease Institute (IDI), Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) and Sustainability Institute.