Faculty and Staff News
Dr. Cam Escoffery 92C 96PH, Associate Professor in the department of 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. Read more.
Dr. Karen Andes, assistant professor in the Hubert Department of Global Health, is one of 18 higher education faculty from across the state of Georgia chosen as a 2018-2019 Governor’s Teaching Fellow. Read more.
Rollins has been chosen to serve as one of five regional technical assistance centers for the Hurricane Response Hub (HRH) initiative led by the National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI). Funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), this national program is designed to enhance disaster-related surveillance and environmental and occupational health recovery efforts in areas impacted by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria by building disaster-related public health workforce capacity. Dr. Moose Alperin 91PH, senior associate faculty in the department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education and chair of the Executive MPH Program, will serve as the Director of the Georgia Hurricane Response Hub Technical Assistance Center. Read more.
Dr. Dabney Evans 98PH, Associate Professor in the Hubert Department of Global Health, and Lara Martin 15PH, Manager of Education and Programs at the Center for Humanitarian Emergencies at Emory, were among the Emory faculty and staff who helped author and lead the revision of the 2018 Inter-Agency Field Manual on Reproductive Health in Humanitarian Settings. The field manual is recognized as the global standard for the provision of sexual and reproductive health services in emergency settings. Read more.
Researchers at the Rollins’ Global Research for Women (GROW) have entered into a 4-year partnership with CARE’s Tipping Point Project, aimed at improving the lives of adolescent girls. Researchers will evaluate the CARE Tipping Point Project, which uses social norms approach in Nepal and Bangladesh to empower adolescent girls and their communities to delay marriage and to promote girls’ rights. Rollins researchers Dr. Kathryn Yount, Asa Griggs Candler Chair of Global Health, and Dr. Cari Jo Clark, Associate Professor in the Hubert Department of Global Health, are co-principal investigators of the evaluation in Nepal. Read more.