The Rollins School of Public Health
James W. Curran, MD, MPH, Dean
The Rollins School of Public Health has 757 master's degree students, 129 PhD students, and 24 postdoctoral and research fellows who choose from degree options in behavioral sciences and health education, biostatistics, epidemiology, environmental and occupational health, health policy and management, and global health. The school has 4,596 alumni.
A leader in interdisciplinary studies, the school offers dual-degree programs with medicine, nursing, health professions, business, and law. Master's degrees also are available with a concentration in clinical research. The Career MPH is a distance-learning program for mid-career professionals who wish to pursue a degree while employed.
In 2008, the school received $53.8 million in research funding, supporting efforts in cancer epidemiology, nutrition, environmental and occupational health, HIV/AIDS education and prevention, addictive behaviors, youth violence, antibiotic resistance, micronutrient malnutrition, diabetes and obesity, and health care costs and allocation of health resources.
Many of the 203 full- and part-time faculty and more than 400 adjunct faculty in six academic departments are linked by appointments, shared programs, or research grants with the CDC, The Carter Center, the American Cancer Society, CARE, the Arthritis Foundation, the Task Force for Child Survival and Development, and state and local public health agencies. Through these partnerships and in its role as a center for international health research and training, the school helps make Atlanta the public health capital of the world. The school is ranked seventh among peer institutions by U.S. News & World Report.
