Partnerships
The Women’s Global Health Institute leverages many established relationships among existing centers and projects at Purdue University. This will allow the Center to launch efficiently into cross disciplinary areas of research.
Purdue Institute of Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Disease
The Purdue Institute of Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Disease (PI4D) leverages the significant diversity of life sciences, physical sciences and engineering on campus to invent and integrate basic immunologic advances, new diagnostics, probe basic biological and inflammatory processes, and to develop and commercialize novel intervention methods to control an array of chronic inflammatory conditions, cancer and infectious diseases.
College of Health and Human Sciences
The College of Health and Human Sciences prepares scholars, develops leaders, translates theory to practice, and advances knowledge of human behavior, health, and quality of life. Key Characteristics:
- An interdisciplinary environment for discovery, learning, and engagement
- Faculty and graduates who are leaders in the health and human sciences
- Research that advances knowledge and is responsive to ever-changing conditions
- Applications of knowledge to improve people's well-being
- Engagement with diverse constituencies and communities to address a broad spectrum of human needs.
Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute
The mission of the Indiana CTSI is to increase translational biomedical research and improve the health of people of Indiana and beyond. The overall goal is to transform the Indiana institutions to create an environment that facilitates the conduct of clinical and translational science research. The CTSI has developed new mechanisms to accelerate translational research, streamlined all available research infra-structure to accelerate translational projects, and partnered with commercial and philanthropic organizations in Indiana. The Indiana CTSI brings together the resources of academic, commercial, and community groups across the state. It provides a "home" to investigators with expertise in a wide range of fields relevant to clinical and translational research.
The Catherine Peachey Fund
The mission of the Catherine Peachey Fund is to promote advances in breast cancer research and treatment. We provide financial support to research and programs that we believe are best positioned to move from the bench to the clinic, and impact patient clinical outcomes.
Discovery Park District
Discovery Park District at Purdue is a giant leap in placemaking driven by the persistent pursuit of a community for families to thrive, talent to grow, technologies to launch, and business to collaborate.
Purdue Institute for Cancer Research
Since 1978, the Institute for Cancer Research has been a National Cancer Institute-designated basic research cancer center. Only seven institutions in the United States have earned this title. Being a basic research center means we don’t treat cancer patients directly. Our work focuses on investigating cancers where they begin — at the cellular level — to investigate the cause of and cure for one of the most devastating diseases of our time. Doctors and scientists throughout the world use our discoveries to develop methods, medicines, and medical devices to save and enhance patients’ lives.
Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience
Spanning 25 departments across six colleges, Purdue’s neuroscience enterprise, part of the Pillars of Excellence in the Life Sciences, already includes around 100 faculty with ongoing neuroscience-related research activities or interests. This deep pool of human resources has positioned Purdue well in several target research areas within the broad field of neuroscience, and the new center will synergize these efforts for national and international impact.
College of Veterinary Medicine
The college focuses on globally advancing animal and human health and well-being through excellence in learning, discovery and engagement, as the leading veterinary college for comprehensive education of the veterinary team and for discovery and engagement in selected areas of veterinary and comparative biomedical sciences.
College of Engineering
The mission of the College of Engineering is to advance engineering learning, discovery, and engagement in fulfillment of the Land Grant promise and the evolving responsibility of a global university.
College of Pharmacy
The Mission of the Purdue University College of Pharmacy is to:
1. Educate and train students to become leading pharmacists and scientists,
2. Advance scientific discovery and development, and
3. Maximize global health outcomes through patient care and public service.
College of Science
Purdue University's College of Science is committed to the persistent pursuit of the mathematical and scientific knowledge that forms the very foundation of innovation. Nearly 350 tenure-track faculty conduct world-changing research and deliver a transformative education to more than 6,000 undergraduates and 1,750 graduate students. We develop practical solutions to today’s toughest challenges with degree programs in the life sciences, physical sciences, computational sciences, mathematics, and data science.
Purdue Policy Research Institute
The Purdue Policy Research Institute’s aims to foster high-impact, interdisciplinary research in established and emerging areas of strategic focus, and leverage extant research to maximize impact. The Institute catalyzes and leverages extant policy-relevant transdisciplinary research among members of the Purdue research community, facilitates enduring connections among local and global actors, and generates impact on policymaking and beyond. We are guided by the principle that policy development must consider the interdependencies among technological, economic, ethical, and social factors.
Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering
Established in 2005 by a gift from the Regenstrief Foundation and located in Discovery Park at Purdue University, the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering brings together researchers and practitioners from multiple disciplines to collaboratively improve healthcare delivery and empower individuals to live their highest quality of life.
Our mission is to pursue a proactive, patient-centered, and wellness-focused healthcare delivery system by conducting impactful research that leverages collaborative partnerships.
Our vision is to be a leading research institution that generates evidence for the effectiveness and successful adaptation of interventions and policies to improve the quality, accessibility, equity, and affordability of healthcare delivery.
Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence
The Butler Center provides research support, educational seminars, workshops, and experiences that enhance both aspiring and experienced leaders’ understanding and ability to manage today’s complex institutions of various types particularly colleges and universities. The mission of the center is to develop leadership capacity through research, education and collaborations that helps advance and broaden representation in academic decision making.
Institute for a Sustainable Future
Supporting research and partnerships to accelerate the transition to a sustainable, resilient, prosperous future.
Global Health Innovation Exchange
The Indiana CTSI intuitions (Indiana University, University of Notre Dame, and Purdue University) established a new reciprocal innovation program to design, demonstrate, replicate, and rapidly disseminate health innovations developed through collaborations with our partners in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Beginning in 2016, global health pilot grants and reciprocal innovation grants are funded to support the research of Indiana CTSI investigators and their international partners.
College of Liberal Arts
The College of Liberal Arts is essential to a Purdue education that prepares graduates for meaningful careers and inspired leadership. Positioned at the intersection of liberal arts and STEM, the College leverages Purdue’s STEM strengths to propel our graduates toward new advances in our disciplines and enhances Purdue’s renowned STEM education by pushing all Purdue students intellectually and challenging them to be independent thinkers who drive decision making as bold, visionary leaders. The College is committed to exploring innovative ways of advancing Liberal Arts education and scholarship. The College of Liberal Arts takes pride in our teaching and research that produce knowledge that leads to transformative human advances and graduates who think broadly and lead boldly as productive, engaged members of society.
Women in Science Program
The Science Diversity team believes mentoring relationships play a significant role in the academic and social development of mentors and mentees and that development is enhanced through programming that promotes a strong professional identity early in one’s college career. The goal of WISP is to implement programming and facilitate relationships with upper class peers and faculty members that help retain women in the College of Science. WISP is designed so that faculty and peers serve as role models, offer support, and recommend strategies to contribute to the success of first year students. The program is designed to facilitate relationships, share information, and provide support that enhances the professional identity of women in science.
Women in Engineering Program
Purdue University's Women in Engineering Program (WIEP) helps women and girls discover their inner engineer. From mentoring to career development, WIEP continually encourages current and future women engineering students by providing interesting and engaging programming relevant to their lives. WIEP programs are a place to learn, discover, and explore aspects of engineering and connect with others who are also interested. They are a place of encouragement, support, and positive perspectives for those who are interested in following their dreams by pursuing an engineering degree.
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
The Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program seeks to produce, promote, and advance knowledge, scholarship, theory, research, pedagogy, education, and action in the service of three overlapping feminist goals: understanding and improving women’s lives and status; revealing the operations and consequences of gender, sexuality, and other critical axes of identity and power relations such as race, class, ethnicity, nationality, age, ability, etc., as constitutive and intertwined elements of sociality; and eliminating discriminatory practices and inequalities based on gender, sexual orientation, and other critical axes of identity such as race, class, ethnicity, nationality, age, ability, etc.
ADVANCE-Purdue and the Center for Faculty Success
ADVANCE is a National Science Foundation program designed to develop systemic approaches to increase the representation and advancement of women in academic science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers, thereby contributing to the development of a more diverse science and engineering workforce. ADVANCE-Purdue is an institutional transformation project that targets recruitment, retention, and advancement of women STEM faculty at Purdue University. The mission of ADVANCE-Purdue is to conduct research and evaluate PCFS's programming, structure and institutionalization, and to institutionalize PCFS as a vibrant center integrated into the fabric of Purdue.
Division of Diversity and Inclusion
A diverse, inclusive community is an integral part of the Purdue experience.
It is vital that we:
- Create and sustain a welcoming campus where all students can excel
- Increase and retain the number of historically underrepresented and diverse students, faculty and staff at Purdue
- Prepare all students to thrive in our diverse, global environment
The Graduate School
The Graduate School provides a range of services, programs, and events to support the whole person—to empower graduate students to address the complex challenges of the day and build a better tomorrow together.
Center for Research on Brain, Behavior, and NeuroRehabilitation (CEREBBRAL)
CEREBBRAL is a center started within the College of Health and Human Sciences (HHS) as an Area of Research Excellence. CEREBBRAL leverages strong collaborations between basic and applied scientists across units to answer big questions about how to improve quality of life, not just extend it, and how to predict disease- and aging-related declines in large highly variable populations.
Medical Humanities
The Medical Humanities Certificate offers students across a wide range of colleges, programs, and majors the opportunity to approach medicine and healthcare in a collaborative and interdisciplinary way. Students will learn about the interactions between human experience, medical practice, and scientific technology, while also gaining insights into the historical, social, and cultural contexts of a wide range of topics including disease, pharmaceuticals, the medical profession, sexuality, and mental illness.
Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center
Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center is the central hub for cancer research and education across Indiana University.
Over the last three decades, our far-reaching discoveries have changed the way cancer is treated around the world. Our recent advances in genomics, immunotherapy, bioinformatics, and other sciences are transforming knowledge about cancer prevention, screening, diagnosis, and survivorship.
And when they’re not in the lab, our members are leading clinical trials, teaching medical students, and caring for thousands of adult and pediatric patients.
Together with our partners at IU Health and our experts at IU School of Medicine, IU School of Nursing, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, and others from across the university, we are accelerating life-saving cancer research.
Indiana University National Center for Excellence in Women's Health
The National Center of Excellence (NCoE) in Women’s Health is a program of Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. The Center’s mission is to improve the health of Indiana women and their families through collaboration, outreach and education.
American Dairy Association Indiana
American Dairy Association Indiana, Inc. (ADAI) is a not-for-profit promotion, communication, and nutrition education organization funded by and serving Indiana dairy farm families. We provide service to consumers, health professionals, teachers, food service professionals, and the media.
Walther Cancer Foundation
The Walther Cancer Foundation has two primary goals: to support cancer research with the aim of discovering better treatments, if not cures, and to develop a comprehensive approach for supporting patients with cancer and their families.
Cook Research Incorporated
Cook Research Incorporated has the operational mission to support Cook Medical in the identification, development, testing, and regulatory approval of innovative medical products. Our staff of engineers, scientists, regulatory professionals, and clinical experts provide the expertise to medical product development projects that improve the treatment of patients.
International Breast Cancer & Nutrition
This program aims to bring together global public health actors, advocates, clinicians and researchers on breast cancer prevention to discuss how lifestyle, nutrition and environment can influence our epigenome and susceptibility to breast cancer. Discussions will also focus on reshaping health policies to reduce the burden of the disease.