The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health’s new strategic plan defines whole person research as including three components:

• Exploring the fundamental science of interconnected systems
• Investigating multicomponent interventions or therapeutic systems
• Examining the impact of these interventions on multisystem or multiorgan outcomes

The Methodological Approaches for Whole Person Research Workshop will discuss examples of research studies in these three areas from diverse fields and explore methodologies potentially appropriate for whole person research.