Spotlight: An Interview with NCCIH Director, Dr. Helene M. Langevin, on Whole Person Health

Abstract

In an ongoing series of spotlight interviews, Challenges Advisory Board Member and Nova Institute for Health Fellow, Alan C. Logan, meets with thought leaders, scientists, scholars, healthcare professionals, artisans and visionaries concerned about health at scales of persons, places and the planet. Here in the inaugural interview, the Director of the National Institutes of Health, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, Dr. Helene Langevin, responds to a set of questions posed by Challenges. Dr. Langevin discusses the emerging concept of whole person health, and in particular, how the concept intersects with the grand and interconnected challenges of our time.

Keywords

• flourishing
• integrative medicine
• public health
• personalized medicine
• community health
• planetary health