Rollins Health Education Institute
Rollins Health Education Institute

Your Best Public Health Life: Well-Being and Impact (Introductory Course)

Rollins Health Education Institute

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

June 6-7 (Emory Employees Only), August 22-23, October 10-11

Learn 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. 
  • Staff, faculty, and public health professionals with experience in domestic or global public health work (including health care, academic, government, and civil society settings)
  • Staff, 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
  • Ready to join or have questions? Click here and we’ll follow up with next steps.

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
  • Ready to join or have questions? Click here and we’ll follow up with next steps.
  • Cost: $2,060
  • This course is covered by the Emory Courtesy Scholarship for eligible faculty/staff.  Please visit the Emory employee benefits page to learn more. Deadline to apply: April 30 (June 6-7 session), August 15 (August 22-23 and October 10-11 sessions).
  • Emory Healthcare employees may be eligible for tuition benefits. Please visit the Emory Healthcare employee benefits page to learn more.
  • Space is limited to 25 participants per session.
  • Ready to join or have questions? Click here and we’ll follow up with next steps.

This course offered incredible support, impeccable planning and intentionality, great resources, a diverse group (in all angles), and such caring verbal and non-verbal language.

Angela Rozo, previous staff participant

Faculty

Course Instructors

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Juan Leon, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor of Global Health

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Shannon Weber, MSW, Impact for Good, LLC

Coming in yesterday, my concerns seemed insurmountable... As I leave today I no longer feel that any issues are unsolvable. I now see a way forward. 

Mike Caudle, previous faculty participant

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Gain the skills you need to meet today’s public health challenges. 

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