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According to preliminary results, Rollins raised more than $40,000 from 315 gifts during Emory’s third annual “All in a Day” 24-hour fundraiser. Rollins placed 4th in the Top Donors Challenge for number of gifts overall, which unlocked an additional $2,000 from the university. The school also won two challenges—the Night Owl Challenge for gifts made between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. and the Early Bird Special for gifts made between 5 a.m. and 7 a.m. The challenges unlocked an additional $1,500 and $2,000 respectively. Carmen Ganga 12MPH was a top ambassador, ranking 4th in the university with 38 gifts made from her personalized giving link. She was awarded $1,000, which she got to contribute to her area of choice. A behavioral sciences and health education alumna, Carmen gave the money to the newly created Nancy J. Thompson Legacy Award Endowment. Rollins’ All in a Day effort was headed by Laura Jurotich, assistant director of alumni engagement and annual giving. Miner and Levinson named professors emeritus
The Emory University Board of Trustees approved the appointments of Kathleen Miner as professor emeritus of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education and Richard Levinson as Charles Howard Candler Professor Emeritus of Public Health and professor emeritus of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, effective Feb. 1, 2019. Dean’s Pilot and Innovation Grants Fourteen proposals were submitted for the first round of the Dean’s Pilot and Innovation Grants. These awards will enable junior faculty to secure extramural funding. They are intended for projects that are new, highly innovative, and as yet unfunded. Award recipients will be announced in March. Chang and Liu receive IBM climate change grant
Howard Chang (biostatistics and bioinformatics) and Yang Liu (environmental health) have received one of IBM's three Climate Change Research grants. The project will examine the impact of future temperature and air pollution on human health with IBM technology resources, which include supercomputing power, weather data, and cloud data storage. Funds from the HERCULES Exposome Research Center and the departments of biostatistics and bioinformatics and environmental health will support faculty and student efforts to develop computer code and analyze massive datasets. Mapping disease podcast
Lance Waller (biostatistics and bioinformatics) was featured in the new installment of Miami University’s Stats+Stories podcast in which he discusses the field of disease ecology. Listen to the podcast here. PhD prospects visit Seventy-five of the most highly recruited PhD students in the country visited Rollins recently. Each department has its own recruitment schedule, but all the prospects met for a breakfast on February 8. In a typical year, Rollins will accept 35 to 40 PhD students. |
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Amy Webb-Girard (global health) has been awarded the 2018 Association of Schools & Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) Early Career in Public Health Teaching Award. This award is given to graduate public health faculty who are in the early stages of their professional careers and are noted for their excellence in teaching and mentorship. Do Mai Hoa 02MPH was recognized as the 2018 Sheth Distinguished International Alumni Award recipient. The award recognizes Emory’s international alumni who are highly distinguished nationally or globally in their professions and who have made outstanding contributions to humanity, science, art, or human welfare. Hoa's work, which primarily centers around health management capacity strengthening, have made a tangible difference in Vietnam’s public health landscape. From 2005 to 2015, she worked alongside colleagues at the Hanoi University of Public Health to build a national public health management training network. She currently serves as the project coordinator for the Residency Education Reform Project at the Partnership for Health Advancement in Vietnam, an organization that aims to strengthen health care worker capacity. | ||||||||
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March 28 (optional)-29 (main day): Visit Emory. 8 am – 5 pm. Claudia Nance Rollins Building: Plaza Level. For complete schedule click here. May 31 – June 1: National LGBTQ Health Conference. This gathering will address the substantial health inequities experienced by Lesbian, Gay Bisexual, Transgender and Queer persons. Emory Conference Center Hotel. For more information go here. |
| WINTER 2019 O. Wayne Rollins Foundation pledges $65 million to construct the R. Randall Rollins Building
I am delighted to announce that the O. Wayne Rollins Foundation has committed $65 million toward the construction of a third public health building. To be named the R. Randall Rollins Building, this 187,000- square-foot facility will be located adjacent to the Grace Crum Rollins Building. The bridge will extend from the Claudia Nance Rollins Building connecting all three. We expect to break ground in late spring 2020 and anticipate completion in 2022. One-third of the R. Randall Rollins Building will contain office space for our expanding faculty, one-third will provide much needed classroom space, and one-third will be dedicated to a state-of-the-art conference and teaching space for short-term courses, distance learning, and community outreach. The SLAM Cooperative—the same architectural firm that designed the Claudia Nance Rollins Building—is already at work. Thanks to each of you who have participated in focus groups and surveys. These are a critical part of the process. We have selected New South as the contractor. Their work on the Emory Campus includes the recently renovated Convocation Hall on the main quadrangle. We will provide regular updates on our progress. I am deeply grateful for the generosity of the O. Wayne Rollins Foundation and the Rollins family. Their continued investment in our mission through buildings and a commitment to endowment has propelled our school into the highest echelons of public health research, education, and outreach. The facilities we’ve been able to build with their support are considered to be among the very best at any school of public health in the country and have proven critical in our ability to attract world renowned scholars, students and research to our campus.
Our alumni and faculty continue to gather accolades and assume leadership positions in the profession. Emory President and Charles Howard Candler Professor of Public Health, Claire E. Sterk has been elected to the 2018 class of the National Academy of Medicine. A pioneering public health scholar, Claire has served for the past two decades as a social scientist, academic leader, and administrator at Emory. Prior to becoming president on Sept. 1, 2016, she served as the university’s provost and executive vice president for academic affairs. At Rollins, she served as associate dean for research, chair of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education and acting and associate director of the Women’s and Children’s Center.
Lisa M. Carlson 93MPH was named president-elect of the American Public Health Association (APHA). She will assume the presidency at the close of the association’s 2019 annual meeting. Lisa is executive administrator of research programs and operations at the Emory School of Medicine as well as an affiliated instructor of the Executive MPH program. Lisa has served in a leadership capacity at Emory for more than 16 years, including as a director with the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) Network and with the Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium. She was a fellow of the 2013 class of the Emory Woodruff Leadership Academy, served three terms on the Emory Alumni Board, and is a past president of the Rollins Alumni Board.
Cam Escoffery (behavioral sciences and health education) has been named president-elect of the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE). In this role she will lead the association’s Board of Trustees and House of Delegates. She’ll officially step into the leadership position March 27 at the organization’s annual board meeting and will lead in varying capacities over the next three years. Cam has been involved with SOPHE on both a local and national level for more than 24 years, first as a student at Rollins, and later in a range of leadership and administrative roles, including serving as associate editor of Health Promotion Practice and on the editorial board of Health Education & Behavior (two of the international journals published by the association).
RSPH is up for re-accreditation this year, and Delia Lang (behavioral sciences and health education) has been leading the process as director of re-accreditation. This time around, the criteria for curriculum has changed dramatically, and we’ve been working diligently for the past two years to meet the new requirements. Our internal steering committee recently completed the first draft of our self-study document, and in the months to come they will be reaching out to faculty, staff, students, and community partners for any final feedback. Our site visit will be October 28-30. Check the RSPH web site for updates in advance of the site visit. Thomas Clasen, Household Air Pollution and Health: A Multi-country LPG Intervention Trial, NIH National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, $2 million, continuation Matthew Freeman, C&E Exemplars Research Partner: Vaccine Exemplars, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, $1.5 million, October 1, 2018 – August 14, 2020 Patrick Sullivan, The UNC/Emory Center for Innovative Technology (iTech), University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, $1.3 million, June 1, 2018 – May 31, 2019 Tene Lewis, Expectations of Discrimination and CVD risk in African-American Women, NIH National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, $800,000, continuation Karen Levy, Urban Water Systems, Enteric Pathogen Distribution & Gut Microbiome, NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, $760,000, continuation Saad Omer, A Comprehensive Pre-Natal Intervention to Increase Vaccine Coverage, NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, $760,000, continuation Benjamin Druss, Region IV Mental Health Technology Transfer Center, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services, $740,000, August 15, 2018 – August 14, 2023 Neel Gandhi, The Role of Casual Contact and Migration in XDR TB Transmission in South Africa, NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, $720,000, continuation Karen Levy, Gut Microbiome, Enteric Infections and Child Growth Across a Rural Urban Gradient, NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, $700,000, continuation Shakira Suglia, Childhood Adversity and Cardiovascular Health among Puerto Rican Youth, NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, $660,000, continuation Rollins faculty have received many other grants for research and training between May 15 - Sept. 1 View the complete list. Faculty promotions
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