IPECP Leadership
Overview
The Office of Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice’s director and program manager provide the strategic vision and direction for the office.
Jodie L. Guest, PhD, MPH
Director
Dr. Guest is Director of the WHSC Office of IPECP, Professor and Senior Vice Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health, and Associate Program Director for the Physician Assistant Program at the Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Guest has a broad background in epidemiology and specific expertise in HIV cohorts and clinical trials, emergency preparedness and science communication. She has focused her research on racial, sexual, and gender minority populations in HIV care.
Dr. Guest is Director of the Emory Farmworker Project, an interprofessional program that provides healthcare to thousands of migrant farmworkers each year. Since March 2020, she has led Emory's Outbreak Response Team for COVID-19, working in Hall County with poultry plant workers, communities in middle Georgia, the Mexican Consulate in Atlanta, and communities with limited access to vaccines and testing due to unstable housing. She serves on the Leadership Advisory Council for the Emory COVID-19 Response Collaborative, a public health and academic partnership. Dr. Guest was awarded Emory's 2021 MLK Community Service Award for her work with the Emory Outbreak Response Team, the 2022 Rollins School of Public Health Distinguished Achievement Award for her outstanding contributions in the field of public health, and the Society for Epidemiologic Research's 2023 Kenneth Rothman Career Accomplishment Award. She has also received numerous awards for her graduate level teaching and service.
Dr. Guest serves on the Woodruff Leadership Council, the Board of Trustees for Leadership Atlanta and the Leadership Council for Zoo Atlanta. She is a faculty counselor for the Emory Board of Trustees and secretary of the University Senate. She also serves on the Atlanta Mayor's LGBTQ Advisory Council, chairs the National LGBTQ Health Conference, is the MPox public health advisor to the Mayor of Atlanta, and serves as the COVID Czar for the Iditarod. Additionally, Dr. Guest is the Founder and Executive Director of Teen Corp, a medical and philanthropy organization created to bring experiential learning to youth leaders. Find more information about Dr. Guest.
Amy Rowland, MSc., BA
Program Manager
Amy Rowland is Program Manager of the WHSC Office of Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice. With over 25 years of communication leadership experience within government, academia, non-profit, and private sectors, Ms. Rowland is passionate about collaborating across disciplines and teams, leading organizational change and effectiveness, innovating to improve participant experiences and desired outcomes, and delivering impactful public health and interprofessional education programs.
Prior to joining Emory Global Health Institute as Communication Director in 2022, Ms. Rowland served as the Associate Director for Communication Science for U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Global Immunization Division. She led communication in support of CDC’s global immunization scientific agenda and programmatic goals to prevent, eradicate, eliminate and control high-burden vaccine-preventable diseases. She served as Joint Information Center Lead for CDC’s Polio Eradication Global Response, co-chaired the Global Polio Eradication Initiative’s Global Communications Group for two years and served as CDC Global Rapid Response Team media and public affairs mentor to deployers worldwide from 2018 – 2022.
From 2016 – 2019, Ms. Rowland led media and public affairs for CDC’s Global Health Center working with public health experts and colleagues in more than 60 countries. She led communication and spokesperson trainings for public health leaders worldwide; conducted workshops for journalists reporting on public health, especially during a crisis event; and deployed for the U.S. government as a spokesperson and communication lead during public health emergencies. In 2011, Ms. Rowland was recruited to CDC’s Office on Smoking & Health to lead digital media strategy and content development for the launch of the first federally funded national tobacco education campaign, CDC’s Tips from Former Smokers™. In her role as team lead, she also oversaw science translation, communication strategy, and launches for numerous U.S. Surgeons General’s Reports, including the first on e-cigarette use among youth released in 2016. Prior to her federal service, Ms. Rowland worked for 12 years as a UK-based foreign correspondent, agency director, speechwriter, and served on the Executive Board of Directors of The Africa Center in London.
