Director: Caryn Heldt, PhD
The Health Research Institute (HRI) is the flagship research arm in health-related research at Michigan Tech. The Health Research Institute is to establish and maintain a thriving environment that promotes translational, interdisciplinary, and increasingly convergent health-related research and inspires education and outreach activities.
More specifically, HRI’s objectives are to:
- Bring faculty, staff, and students across the campus together to discover innovative new knowledge in the field of health research
- Foster interdisciplinary collaborations and enable faculty to develop multidisciplinary proposals and conduct impactful research which otherwise would not be possible
- Create a platform for broad sets of national and international collaborations to make valuable contributions to the field
- Promote alliance for health-related research and education activities