Graduate Opportunities
The Global One Health Academy offers several funded opportunities for graduate and doctoral students at NC State University, including fellowships, travel awards, sponsored internships, and more.
GOHA Graduate Opportunities
Through the Global One Health Academy, students are empowered to increase their awareness of global grand challenges and gain hands-on experience via experiential learning programs that will hone their professional development skills and cultural competencies to address global health challenges by leveraging partnerships with community stakeholders and collaborating universities in the United States and abroad.
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MS in Global One Health
The Master of Science in Global One Health is designed to train students in the One Health framework, a recognized interdisciplinary approach that integrates human, animal, plant, and environmental health to tackle global issues ranging from the relationship between zoonotic disease outbreaks and climate change to sustainable agriculture and clean water access.
- This interdisciplinary graduate program will be housed within the Graduate School and will begin enrolling students for the 2026-2027 academic year.
- This 2-year, in-person program requires 36 credit hours for completion with thesis and non-thesis track options available.
Global One Health Fellows Program
The Global One Health Fellows program brings together an interdisciplinary cohort of graduate students from across the university. Through courses, networking, and opportunities for professional development, fellows broaden their knowledge in multiple domains of One Health while learning from peers and mentors to bring new perspectives that facilitate a deeper understanding in their field of study.
- To be eligible for the Global One Health Fellows program, applicants must be current or incoming graduate students at NC State with One Health research that aligns with one or more of the following Global One Health Academy thematic areas: food and water solutions, infectious diseases, and/or climate change and health disparities.
Graduate Certificates
The Global One Health Academy offers graduate certificates to students interested in gaining new skills in global One Health to further their academic and professional careers. Currently, we are offering the Graduate Certificate In Participatory Sciences in partnership with the Citizen Science Campus to train graduate students to address pressing global issues through collaboration with the public on scientific research
- Any interested NC State graduate or professional student may be admitted into the certificate.
- Microgrants are available to enrolled students. A call for proposals will be sent to enrolled students annually in the spring, with the number and amounts of awarded grants to be determined based on funding availability.
- Those enrolled are required to complete 12 total credits.
Graduate Travel Awards
Offered twice a year, the Global One Health Academy Graduate Travel Awards support graduate students for international or domestic travel that advances their global One Health-related research. Travel could be for field work, data collection and analysis, workshops and training on new methods and approaches, other opportunities that will advance research theory or practice, or conferences and other venues where research findings will be disseminated to the scientific community or the public.
- Graduate students from disciplines across all of NC State’s colleges with relevant research are encouraged to apply.
Related Programs
Here is an additional program outside of the Global One Health Academy that may be relevant to those interested in global One Health research and education. Explore the opportunity below.
Certificate in Global Health for Veterinary Students
Offered by the Global Health program in the College of Veterinary Medicine, the Certificate in Global Health provides veterinary students with an opportunity to examine the inherent complexities of improving health on a global scale, with an emphasis on multidisciplinary frameworks and collaborations.
