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Dean’s Pilot Awards
Recipients of the 2021 Dean’s Pilot Innovation Awards have been announced. These awards go toward supporting full-time junior faculty with projects that are new, highly innovative, currently unpublished and unfunded, and that possess the potential to lead to larger extramural grants. Winners of this year’s awards are: Liliana Aguayo, Max Lau, and Liuhua Shi. Read more. Global Health and Development PhD program
The new Global Health and Development PhD program welcomed its first cohort of students in fall 2021. The goal of this program is to train leaders and scholars who use science to improve public health policy and practice for underserved populations around the world. This is one of the only programs in the world that specifically offers a doctoral degree in global heath and development. Rollins a Top-Enrolling School for Coverdell Fellows in 2020-2021
The Peace Corps recently announced that Emory University is No.5 on the list of top-enrolling Paul D. Coverdell Fellows Program institutions. Of the 44 students enrolled at Emory, 32 are at Rollins. This graduate fellowship program offers, through the universities/institutions, financial assistance for tuition and fees to returned Peace Corps volunteers. New Office of Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice
Jodie Guest will co-direct the new WHSC Office of Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (IPEC), which will foster collaboration among interprofessional, interdisciplinary teams working across education, research, and clinical care to treat and prevent disease. The School of Nursing’s Beth Ann Swan is the other co-director. Read more. New substance-abuse related fellowship
Emory has launched a new graduate fellowship program, Training in Advanced Data Analytics to End Drug-Related Harms (TADA). While there are several other NIH-funded TADA programs in the US, TADA at Emory is the only one focused on addressing drug-related epidemics and thus is poised to become a destination for substance use disorder researchers. The program is open to students at Rollins and Laney Graduate School and includes a number of ways for students to get involved (classes, journal clubs, speakers), with the centerpiece being the funded fellowship opportunity. The program will be expanded to students across the university as a certificate program starting in 2022. For more information, contact Marielysse Cortes. |
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Melissa (Moose) Alperin was elected to the American Public Health Association’s (APHA) executive board and awarded the Chair’s Citation by the APHA Council of Affiliates in October 2021. The Chair’s Citation award is given by the Council of Affiliates Chair at their discretion in recognition of an individual’s service to the council. Alperin also received it two years ago. Read more.
Elizabeth Walker has been selected as the 2022 Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health’s (ASPPH) Early Career Teaching Excellence Award winner. This award, “recognizes a junior faculty member for outstanding teaching and mentoring of students toward distinction in public health research, teaching, and practice.” Read more.
Carlos del Rio has been named the Winter 2021 Health Equity Champion by the CDC’s Office of Minority Health and Health Equity. The award honors achievement in reducing health disparities and attaining the highest level of health for all people. | ||||||||
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| WINTER 2022
Transformative Gift
It’s been called transformative. Historic. Landmark. The recent $100 million gift from the O. Wayne Rollins Foundation to our school is all of those things. We will use this generous gift to establish two endowment funds for students and faculty. The Rollins Fund for Student Success will be used to double the number of merit scholarships given to our students and to provide more REAL and global field experience opportunities. The Rollins Fund for Faculty Excellence, will be dedicated to recruiting and retaining exceptional senior faculty by nearly doubling the number of our endowed faculty positions and providing early career support for junior faculty. This phenomenal, game-changing gift comes as the R. Randall Rollins building nears completion, which will give us the best public health facilities in the nation. These and earlier generous gifts by the Rollins family have ensured that the future of public health at Emory is very secure.
M. Daniele Fallin will assume the post as dean on July 1, when I will will join the faculty in epidemiology and global health. Dani currently serves as chair of the Department of Mental Health for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is the Sylvia and Harold Halpert Professor and Bloomberg Centennial Professor. She holds joint appointments in the Bloomberg School’s Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine’s Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry. Dani is also director of the Wendy Klag Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities and has led the center since its establishment by the Bloomberg School in 2013. Dani completed a bachelor of science degree from the University of Florida–Gainesville and earned a PhD in genetic epidemiology from Case Western Reserve University. She joined Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health as an assistant professor of epidemiology in 2000. She served as director of the genetic epidemiology area within epidemiology prior to becoming chair of the Department of Mental Health in 2013. I am excited to pass the reigns to such a distinguished successor, and I look forward to watching the school continue to flourish. Read more.
Don Operario will join Rollins on July 1 as acting Grace Crum Rollins Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences. Don has published more than 250 scientific articles and holds a number of leadership roles at Brown. He received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Brown University School of Public Health, the University of Oxford Excellence in Teaching Award, the American Psychological Association Distinguished Leadership Award on Psychology and AIDS, and recently served as chair of the American Psychological Association Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs. Cam Escoffery, who served as interim chair, will return to her position as professor with the department. Colleen McBride, the department’s chair for nearly eight years, retains her position as professor with the department. Colleen’s many accomplishments as chair include: leading efforts to successfully rebrand the department to a name better fitting its mission; hiring 15 new BSHES faculty; increasing MPH enrollment for the department; formalizing faculty mentoring; creating an Office of Evidence Based Learning; strengthening the BSHES curriculum; leading a strategic planning process for BSHES; and more Cynthia Whitney, Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) Network, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, $26 million, continuation Michelle Kegler, Emory Prevention Research Center, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, $3 million, continuation Linelle Blais, Building Sustainable Organizational Capacity to Provide HIV Services in the US, $2 million, Gilead Sciences, continuation Patrick Sullivan, The UNC/Emory Center for Innovative Technology (iTech), $1 million, University of North Carolina, continuation Mary Beth Weber, An Adaptive Intervention Trial of Home Testing with Behavioral Nudges for COVID-19, $1 million, NIH National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, January 7, 2022 – December 31, 2023 Whitney Rice, enter for Reproductive Health Research in the Southeast (RISE 2022), $1 million, Anonymous, continuation Jeffrey Koplan, Advancing National Public Health Institutes Globally, $960,000, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, continuation Thomas Clasen, Assessing the 5-Year Effects of a 500-day Liquefied Petroleum Gas Cooking Intervention, $930,000, NIH National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, September 25, 2021 – August 31, 2022 Cynthia Whitney, Readying Sites to Assess Effectiveness of Vaccines to Prevent COVID19 (CHAMPS), $800,000, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, November 1, 2021 – September 30, 2022 Sarita Shah, The Role of Casual Contact and Migration in XDR TB Transmission in South Africa, $750,000, NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, continuation Liuhua Shi,cf Air Pollution and Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias: A National Study, $700,000, NIH National Institute on Aging, September 1, 2021 – May 31, 2026 Rollins faculty have received many other grants for research and training between September 1, 2021 – February 1, 2022. View the complete list. Faculty Promotions
Post Doctoral Fellows
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