Whole Health Consortium

The Whole Health Consortium at Virginia Tech empowers people and their communities to pursue meaningful lives through transdisciplinary solution-oriented research in equitable health and well-being.

Our mission is to harness a range of expertise to revolutionize systems, research, practices, and policies that affect holistic health and well-being.

A Whole Health approach changes the paradigm of health practice and research from a focus on disease and symptoms to one of whole health, integrating intersections of animal, environment, and human health and building in communities and systems to empower multifaceted well-being. Research on Whole Health is complex. This emergent field will require committed transdisciplinary collaborations that integrate old and newly established methodologies as well as multi-system interactions, health restoration, resilience, and participant engagement.

Membership

The Virginia Tech Whole Health Consortium is composed of researchers, educators, students, practitioners, healthcare providers, and community/industry partners. Although Virginia Tech provides institutional resources and foundation for the Consortium, membership will include participation beyond the university. The Consortium structure aims to provide a welcoming and flexible environment built around shared interest in improving health and well-being, and we envision local, state, regional, national, and international participation that includes other universities, healthcare entities, government agencies, non-profit organizations, and industry members.

Members will affiliate with one or more core areas within the Consortium: Research, Education, and/or Practice. These areas represent core capabilities and interests that each member brings to the consortium.

Contact Us

For more information about the Whole Health Consortium, contact Tina Savla at jsavla@vt.edu.