Health

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At Notre Dame, we fight for every heartbeat, every breath, every moment. We battle the world's most urgent health challenges—advancing mental health care, strengthening public health, confronting mosquito-borne illnesses, and pushing the frontiers of cancer and rare-disease research—because lives depend on it. Notre Dame students and faculty refuse to rest until the most vulnerable among us have the chance to live fully, and live well.

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Mental health

America's mental health crisis can only be addressed through innovative, interdisciplinary approaches—the kind that are being developed at Notre Dame.

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Cancer research

At Notre Dame, fighting cancer is not confined to one discipline. It’s the work of engineers, chemists, biologists, industrial designers, and more.

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Health and well-being

We're fighting for the well-being of our communities, looking out for— never away from—the most vulnerable among us.

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Mosquito-borne illnesses

From pioneering work in the 1950s to ongoing research today, our researchers are fighting diseases carried by the world's deadliest animal: the mosquito.

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