The Institute’s mission is to accelerate how the world generates, organizes, and applies knowledge toward the complex, interrelated problems of our time - beginning with health and environment, and their many interconnections.
Complex problems do not have disciplinary boundaries. Effective response requires bringing together researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and the communities most affected - each of whom holds a partial view of the whole. The Institute exists to help make those connections and make them work in practice.
How we work
A small organization with a wide network.
The Institute operates as a small organization by design. Our role is to connect, synthesize, and support - not to duplicate the work already being done across the many disciplines, institutions, and communities engaged with these problems.
We do that through our flagship ClimateTIES™ collaborative platform, and through growing additional programs within our HealthTIES™ and EarthTIES™ initiatives. We’ll grow as our reach grows.