Outreach & Extension (O&E) is thrilled to have been awarded a 2025-2026 Local Engagement Seed Grant from the Global One Health Academy, an interdisciplinary consortium of NC State faculty, staff, students and our communities promoting worldwide health equity for people, animals, plants and the environment.
The grant was awarded for the project “Developing Impact Metrics for One Health Community Engaged Scholarship.” This project will provide support for O&E’s undergraduate research intern, Julian Bennett, to create a set of common metrics through which community engaged researchers can share their work. The project will also focus on aligning these common engagement metrics with both NC State’s mission and institutional goals and with the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification objectives.
The Principal Investigator (PI) for the grant is O&E Project Manager Mike Nutt.
These seed grants support NC State students, postdocs, faculty, and staff in their One Health-relevant projects that engage and benefit North Carolina communities. Selected grant projects demonstrate strong interdisciplinarity, generally investigating a question or challenge at the intersection of human, animal, plant, and environmental health.
One Health is an interdisciplinary framework that recognizes the interconnectedness of humans, animals, plants, and the environment, and seeks to sustainably optimize health across these systems. Research that utilizes the One Health approach investigates problems from multiple angles, applying systems thinking to address complex global challenges, inclusive of the human communities the research is embedded within.
To advance the goal of improving the health of individuals, communities, and ecosystems in North Carolina, the Global One Health Academy seeks awards annual grants of between $2,500 and $10,000 innovative community-engaged research projects that leverage the One Health framework for local impact.