Rollins Innovation Summit Launches August 16-27, 2021- Secure Your Seat Today!
Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Orange Sparkle Ball and Double Lantern Informatics are pleased to announce the first-ever Rollins Innovation Summit this summer, August 16-27, 2021.
At the summit, private sector leaders will convene on-site at Emory to train in the applied skills needed to innovate public health solutions within their organizations for social good and business growth. They’ll also engage with Rollins graduate students to lead them through this journey. This summit will:
- Equip industry participants with basic principles of public health, enhanced understanding of the power and relevance of public health innovation, and a pilot design and implementation strategy to test a solution to a real-world problem
- Provide Rollins students with applied experience working on and designing solutions for actual industry problems
The two-week summit is broken into learning core concepts and then applying those skills:
- (Week 1; M-F) Learn the basic principles of public health and how to solve real-world problems with public health innovation
- (Week 2; M-F) Develop an innovation pilot plan to solve a problem/bring an idea forward with hands-on guidance from Rollins graduate students
Participants will include:
- 15 industry seats
- 10 seats for Rollins students who will journey the two weeks as industry guides
- 5 scholarship seats from departments of public health, nonprofits, development agencies, education
By the end of the two-week summit, industry and scholarship attendees will be able to:
- Break down the basics of epidemiological methods and design an intervention to support health
- Evaluate organizational policies for their effect on intra- and external organizational health
- Develop and evaluate the potential of a solution to an organizational issue through systems thinking
- Support an organizational change by analyzing data and using results to communicate the need with an eye on change management and cultural competency
- Understand the role of ecological frameworks in fostering change
- Develop an actionable use case based on an identified pain point
- Design a pilot to address the use case, including the development of key performance indicators (KPIs) used to evaluate the pilot
By the end of the two-week summit, student attendees will be able to:
- Build solutions to real-world problems by applying competencies achieved in Rollins coursework
- Use leadership skills to empower industry partners to address challenges at hand
- Partner with industry partners to develop a pilot to test an industry problem
- Design a pilot with measurable KPIs
Secure Your Seat Today - Here's How:
Industry Registration
Registration fee for the 15 industry seats of $10,250 includes:
- Unique professional development opportunities to learn from Rollins professors and elite public health professionals, while working on a solution to implement at your organization
- 10 full days of admission to the summit
- Breakfast, lunch and snacks to fuel you for the duration
- Recognition of your role along with your fellow attendees in supporting 5 scholarship attendees from departments of public health, nonprofits, development agencies, education that will be awarded complimentary access
- Certificate of completion
Scholarship Registration
Scholarship participants have their registration fees waived. Funding for these participants comes from support from the industry seats. Scholarship participants receive:
- Unique professional development opportunities to learn from Rollins professors and elite public health professionals, while working on a solution to implement at your organization
- 10 full days of admission to the summit
- Breakfast, lunch and snacks to fuel you for the duration
- Certificate of completion
Interested in applying for a scholarship seat? COMPLETE THIS FORM.
Student Registration
APPLY TO BE ONE OF THE 10 ROLLINS GRADUATE STUDENTS ATTENDING THE SUMMIT. BY THURSDAY, JUNE 1, COMPLETE THIS FORM.
You will be asked to submit your resume and provide short answers (1-3) sentences to these questions:
- How would you define innovation?
- Describe a time, from anywhere in your life, that you started something new.
- What areas of public health are you most interested in and why?
- What is a company that you admire or are interested in and why?
The Rollins Innovation Summit is a collaboration of Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, innovation and impact consultancy Orange Sparkle Ball and health informatics firm Double Lantern Informatics. It will be held at The Hatchery, Emory Center for Innovation.