
Your Best Public Health Life: Well-Being and Impact (Introductory Course)
Your Best Public Health Life: Well-Being and Impact (Introductory Course)
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Course Overview
Cultivate your public health well-being and impact. This weekend retreat-style course will equip you with tools and strategies to thrive in both your career and your personal life. Through a blend of self-discovery exercises, interactive sessions, and expert presentations, you'll gain clarity on your purpose, develop strategies to nurture your well-being, and create a personalized action plan to achieve balance and lasting impact.
In Person
August 23 - 24Learn tools and strategies to thrive in both your career and your personal life.
Participants in this course will:
- Define your "why": Explore your motivations for pursuing public health and reimagine what's possible in your career.
- Enhance well-being: Discover practices to strengthen your well-being including physical, mental, emotional, and intuition.
- Develop adaptability: Learn strategies to navigate challenges and uncertainty.
- Strengthen relationships: Explore practices to cultivate healthy relationships in your personal and professional life.
- Create an action plan: Develop a personalized plan to integrate well-being practices and strategies for achieving your public health goals.
- Professionals with at least seven years of experience in domestic or global public health work (including health care, academic, government, and civil society settings)
- Faculty and public health professionals who want to gain clarity on their career path and purpose, enhance their well-being and resilience, develop strategies for managing stress and maintaining work-life balance, and create a sustainable and impactful public health career
By the end of the course, learners will be able to:
- Define their purpose and motivation for their public health career and personal well-being
- Identify three or more strategies to support their public health career and personal well-being development
- Create an integrated 3-month personal action plan to adapt to career and personal well-being challenges and opportunities
- After completing the course, participants receive a badge for their LinkedIn profile
$2,000
1 course credit
- Emory University employees may be eligible for a courtesy scholarship. Please visit the employee benefits page to learn more.
- Emory Healthcare employees may be eligible for Tuition Benefits. Please visit employee benefits page to learn more.
- A discount is available for public health professionals who have lost their employment due to recent federal actions. Reach out to rsph.ed.institute@emory.edu for details.
Professionals/Continuing Education: Use the “register now” button below to sign up.
Current Degree-Seeking Students: If you are interested in enrolling in a course, please email rsph.ed.institute@emory.edu. Current Rollins students need instructor permission. RHEDI courses may be rescheduled based on enrollment and are not guaranteed for graduation requirements.
Special Standing Students: Professionals currently with special standing status at the Rollins School of Public Health may register by contacting rsphenrollmentservices@emory.edu. If you are interested in applying for special standing status, visit our website to learn more.
"Dr. Leon’s mentorship has had a lasting impact on my professional work and personal well-being. He helped me clarify my interests in behavioral health at both the individual and systemic level, and through his mentorship I have been able to chart a career path that is sustainable and personally fulfilling."
Scot Seitz, PhD, clinical and community psychologist, Lumen Guidance & Consultation
Faculty
Course Instructors

Juan Leon, PhD, Associate Professor of Global Health

Shannon Weber, Impact for Good, LLC
Registration
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