Health challenges are increasingly complex, interconnected, and global. Purdue's One Health initiative recognizes that advancing health requires understanding the relationships among human, animal, plant, and environmental systems, while drawing on expertise from many disciplines to improve health outcomes and quality of life.
Faculty in Purdue's College of Liberal Arts contributes to this mission by examining humanistic, social science, ethics, and policy dimensions of health. Their research explores how communication, behavior, culture, families, communities, technology, policy, ethics, and social systems shape health and well-being across the lifespan. Scholars also investigate the social, environmental, and structural factors that influence health outcomes and access to care.
The scholars featured here represent a diverse network of researchers whose work spans artificial intelligence and digital health, population health, aging, mental health, disability studies, environmental health, genomics, epigenetics, health policy, and related fields. Together, they create opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration that complement Purdue's broader strengths in health, life sciences, agriculture, engineering, veterinary medicine, and environmental research.
The areas listed below are intended to help faculty, students, administrators, and external partners identify expertise, discover new connections, and build collaborations that advance Purdue's One Health mission of improving the health of people, animals, plants, and the environment.
