These efforts encompass the arts, the natural and social sciences, and the humanities as well as the law and other professions central to the promotion and protection of human rights.
Interdisciplinary scholarship is encouraged.
It tries in addition to involve both graduate and undergraduate students in appropriate ways. The reasons are several. Another is that the emphasis coheres with the research priorities of scholars within the UI Global Studies Program and the university's various area studies programs. A third is that work on socioeconomic and environmental well-being worldwide is already part of a research tradition among UI scholars working on aspects of health and human rights. Current Task Forces Global Health Assembly Task Force.