Center for Health and Wellbeing

Several of the most significant problems facing humanity represent irreducible mixtures of environmental, social, political and engineering challenges. In 2007 the Princeton Environmental Institute, the Woodrow Wilson School and the School of Engineering and Applied Science launched the Grand Challenges Initiative, an integrated research and teaching program designed to promote student involvement and faculty research on three important issues related to the environment, technology and public policy: (1) energy, specifically the intersection of the climate, energy security and air pollution problems; (2) the interacting problems of rural poverty, land use, biodiversity and water in Africa; and (3) global health problems, with a focus on infectious disease in the developing world.

The Grand Challenges Initiative is organized around three research cooperatives, each of which creates interdisciplinary programs of research and teaching that engage faculty, postdoctoral and graduate fellows, and undergraduates from across the University. The Center for Health & Wellbeing manages the Health Grand Challenge.

For more information on Grand Challenges Health projects, contact Kristina Graff, Associate Director for the Center for Health and Wellbeing.