(Y)Our Health
Wicked Problems, Wolfpack Solutions invites you to begin your NC State journey by joining with scholars from across campus in this unique online class.
Wicked Problems, Wolfpack Solutions:
(Y)Our Health
(Y)Our Health includes discussions of Interconnections, Basic Needs, Disease, Environment, and Healthy Wolfpack.
How do we care for billions of people on an ever-changing planet while increasing access to health care and sharing new technologies? What are the current problems we face and what problems will we need to address in the future?
All wicked problems are both global and local, and we have to think about them in terms of the future as well as our day-to-day lives. Most importantly, the only way to address any wicked problem is to work together as a diverse team of scholars.
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Course Content
In this course, pay attention to the things you think you’re least interested in, because they may be the ones that change you the most.
Dr. Rob Dunn
Senior Vice Provost of Interdisciplinary University Programs
William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor,
Department of Applied Ecology
Course Instructors and Presenters
Course Instructors
- Melissa Ramirez
- Jason Flores
Unit 1: Interconnections
- Thakur and Spence Beaulieu – One Health
- Kays – How Is Ecology Helping Us Understand COVID-19?
- Mayorga – Health as a System
- Kuzma – Responsible Innovation in Genetic Engineering
- Veale – A Wicked Notion: Race and Sterilization
- Warren – Communicating COVID
- Gayles – Humanizing Approaches to Justice and Wellness
- Capps – Innovation and Entrepreneurship For All!
Unit 2: Basic Needs
- Osakwe – Bioinformatics and Health Equity
- Queen and Allen – Maps As Innovative Tools
- Jones – Data-Driven Decisions for Food and Energy
- Haskett – Food Insecurity Here At Home
- Bowe – Why Home Cooking Won’t Solve Our Problems
- de los Reyes – The Complicated Issue of Human Waste
- Hipp and Larson – Better Health Is Right Outside Your Door
- Boone – Re-Imagining Local Landscapes
- Paige – Listening to Climate Change
- Queen and Allen – Using Maps To Connect Time and Space
Unit 3: Disease
- Ramirez – Mapping and Epidemiology Story
- Hurlburt – Plague Parallels
- Gordon – The Stories We Tell
- Ash – What’s For Breakfast?
- Koci – Viruses: The Most Abundant Thing You’ve Never Seen
- Piedrahita and Pierce – Using Stem Mini-Organs to Find New Cures
- Pierce – Chemistry Drives Solutions To Our Planet’s Largest Problems (Optional)
- Lubischer – Decision-Making and the Shadowy Brain
- Neupert – Mental Health, Stress and Well-Being
- Koci – Beyond Better Medicines
Unit 4: Environment
- Mattingly – The Environment and Your Health
- Davis – Toxic / Tonic
- Goller – Finding Health Solutions In Your Sink
- Emanuel – Climate Change and Environmental Justice
- Hawn – We Keep Us Safe
- Boone and Woodson – Red Chair Chat
- Yinka Thomas – Redesigning Capitalism
Unit 5: Healthy Wolfpack
- Smith – Have You Checked Your Wellness Wheel Lately?
- Steptoe – Optimizing (Y)Our Health Through Movement
- Bocarro – Thinking Outside the Pillbox
- Moss – Speaking Truth To Power
- Acker – Leaders Don’t Work Alone
- Arden – Your Place In The Pack
Other Presenters
- Gibson – Emailing Your Instructors
- Gibson – Addressing Your Instructors
- Lubischer – Why Be Interdisciplinary
- Lubischer – The Secret of Learning
- Koch – Yesterday’s Coffee is Also Tomorrow’s Coffee
- Hawn – We Keep Us Safe: Building a Web of Social Action
- Ryan Emanuel – Climate Change and Environmental Justice