Our Strategic Plan
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Delivering On the Promise of Public Health for All
Public health is inherently meant to benefit everyone, everywhere. But barriers—including systemic racism, health disparities, and rampant misinformation—stand in the way of progress. We developed our new five-year strategic plan to break down these barriers and deliver on the promise of public health for all through leadership in public health education, research, and practice.
Explore Our Strategic Plan Goals
Research
We will advance public health science that improves health and health equity through rigorous, collaborative, and interdisciplinary research.
Make Discoveries That Make a Difference
At a time when the challenges to public health are vast, focusing on high-impact science is essential. Doing this type of work requires the right resources, including top researchers, advanced technology, and leading facilities. That’s why we’re dedicated to making a significant investment in our infrastructure— empowering our faculty, staff, and trainees to prioritize making discoveries that will truly make a difference in communities locally and globally.
Education
We will broaden who we teach, diversify how we teach, and enrich what we teach in response to evolving public health priorities and emerging challenges.
Transform Our Offerings
Rollins is one of the world’s top-ranked schools for public health graduate education. If we want to maintain that reputation in a shifting landscape, we’ll need to continue our excellent MPH program and student experience while finding new ways to reach the next generation.
Practice
We will build ethical and equitable collaborations with local, regional, and global partners to engage communities and translate our research into mutually beneficial public health practices, policies, and programs.
Put Research To Work
Our work does not end with the lessons we teach our students or the research we conduct in communities. Public health research can’t fulfill its potential unless it is relevant to practice and until those who work in academic public health have a deep connection to practice. We will make sure that we infuse practice in all aspects of what we do, particularly in the ways we educate the public health workforce, carry out research, and translate that research into action.
Our People
We will cultivate a school where all members of our community have opportunities for professional growth and feel included, respected, and valued.
Build a Thriving Workplace
Rollins is known for its culture of kindness and respect. Our school and workplace are seen as particularly open, diverse, and welcoming. But culture is not something we can take for granted—it evolves with every hire, every new initiative, and every annual budget. We strive to make Rollins the best place to work and learn, where people feel valued, included, and are able to pursue their passion and career paths.
DEI
We will center diversity, equity, and inclusion in our identity through our research, practice, operations, and educational activities.
Integrate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Public health research and practice never stop evolving. Although diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) have long been at the heart of the public health work that we conduct at Rollins, we must continue to push for justice and equity among the communities we work with and for. Equity-centered research and practice—focusing on social justice and cultural humility—are woven throughout our new five-year strategic plan.
Communications
We will promote and strengthen trust in public health information.
Champion Public Health
Over the next five years, Rollins will use communications outreach to ground public health discourse and inform better decision-making globally and locally. To achieve this, we will be both a destination for public health information and a champion of public health professionals.
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