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Global One Health Academy

GOHA Releases Its 2025-2030 Strategic Plan

January 14, 2025

The Global One Health Academy’s 2025-2030 Strategic Plan highlights strategic goals that will guide its specific programs and initiatives for the next five years.

The Global One Health Academy is proud to announce our 2025-2030 Strategic Plan. Through a collaborative and inclusive process with faculty and administrators from across all colleges and additional campus units at NC State, we created this strategic plan as a guiding document for the next five years of the Global One Health Academy. Our 2025-2030 Strategic Plan builds on our strengths, envisions a bold future, and charts a path to realizing this future.

Below is a snapshot of the five strategic goals outlined in the plan, along with select programs and initiatives that will help us achieve these strategic goals. The strategic goals are centered around interdisciplinary research, undergraduate education, graduate education, engagement, and fostering the One Health community at NC State. A link to the full plan, including strategic goals, aims, and more details on programs and initiatives can be found here and at the end of this web post.

Interdisciplinary Research

Strategic Goal 1: Enhance NC State’s capability to address global grand challenges that require an interdisciplinary One Health approach.

GOHA will…

Undergraduate Education

Strategic Goal 2: Cultivate a comprehensive and dynamic undergraduate One Health education program that equips students with interdisciplinary skills and global perspectives necessary to address complex challenges at the intersection of plant, non-human animal, human, and environmental health.

GOHA will…

  • develop, implement, and refine a dynamic curriculum within the Global One Health Minor that leverages problem-based learning and innovative teaching methodologies.
  • promote interdisciplinary approaches by engaging faculty and other experts from diverse fields in lectures and case study development.
  • invest in and further enhance our newly launched Global One Health Scholars program.
  • develop and implement intensive One Health study abroad courses where students directly engage with pressing global challenges.
  • foster local and global community engagement through service-learning projects and partnerships.

Graduate Education

Strategic Goal 3: Elevate NC State as a globally recognized leader in graduate One Health education by training doctoral and professional students in One Health perspectives through research, community engagement, and other experiential learning opportunities.

GOHA will…

  • develop, promote, and teach innovative coursework at the graduate level with relevance to a broad range of graduate students at NC State.
  • continue providing coursework, professional development, and cohort building for Global One Health Fellows.
  • establish a curriculum for a sustainable, interdisciplinary Master of Science in Global One Health.
  • provide professional development and placement for graduates in the evolving realm of One Health.

Engagement

Strategic Goal 4: Integrate One Health research efforts with community engagement for meaningful societal impact on issues at the interface of plant, non-human animal, human, and environmental health across local and global scales.

GOHA will…

  • engage internationally with a primary regional focus on East Africa to enable deep, sustained partnerships across a breadth of One Health challenges.
  • create a platform that enables us to serve as an accessible point of contact for connecting researchers from across the university to stakeholders for applied research that addresses community-identified needs.
  • provide leadership to a regional network that brings together multiple universities in North America with established One Health programs: the North America One Health University Network.
  • serve in formal and informal roles in other national and international networks and consortia relevant to One Health.
  • support and help to expand NC State’s Citizen Science Campus efforts to leverage participatory sciences in addressing One Health challenges while increasing public knowledge through community engagement in One Health research.
  • develop and communicate case studies that highlight the benefits of using a One Health framework.

Community Building

Strategic Goal 5: Create a robust and engaged One Health community at NC State.

GOHA will…

  • leverage its existing Affiliate Member program to connect faculty, staff, and administrators from across colleges and disciplines around One Health research, education, and engagement.
  • work with colleges, centers, institutes, and other units on campus to develop joint programs and events that will engage additional faculty, staff, and trainees to extend the Global One Health Academy’s reach.
  • advocate for university processes and systems that encourage interdisciplinarity.
Read the full Strategic Plan here