About Us

The Whole Health Consortium at Virginia Tech connects people, ideas, and resources to support communities in pursuing meaningful lives through transdisciplinary, solution-oriented research in equitable health and well-being.

Our Mission is to harness a range of expertise to transform systems, research, practices, and policies that affect holistic health and well-being. We foster collaborations that align scientific discovery with community priorities, advancing approaches that are people-centered and sustainable.

Housed in an institution of higher education and innovative research, our consortium focuses on the role that evidence can play in directly improving and advocating for whole health outcomes across a wide range of applications.

We serve as a connector and incubator for community engaged transdisciplinary research to advance equitable health and wellness solutions that support people and their communities to pursue meaningful lives.

To conduct transformative research, we radically flip notions of expertise and center issues of health and wellness that people experience in their daily lives across educational, workplace, environmental, technological, recreational, and clinical settings.

Successful whole health research requires a holistic approach in which everyone is involved. Community, industry, and clinical partners are central to this effort.

Our charge is to bring people with like interests but diverse perspectives together through collaborative seed grant opportunities, networking events, and an interactive directory that highlights members' areas of expertise to support collaboration.

For more details about our Charter, please click here.