Jodie  Guest

Senior Vice Chair, Department of Epidemiology

Co-Director, WHSC Office of Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice

Director, Science Communication Certificate Program

2025 Rural Health Care Champion - Atlanta Business Chronicle

2025 Emory Voice for Health Award

2023 Society for Epidemiologic Research, Kenneth Rothman Career Accomplishment Award

2022 Rollins Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

2022 Rollins Student Government Association Professor of the Year

2021 Emory's Martin Luther king Jr. Community Service Award

2020 Rollins Student Government Association Professor of the Year

Department of Epidemiology’s 2020 Excellence in Teaching Award

School of Medicine’s Excellence in Diversity & Inclusion Award, 2019

Faculty of Excellence Award, Emory University School of Medicine, 2014

Crystal Apple Award for Excellence in Professional School Education, Emory University, 2011

Dean's Teaching Award (Golden Apple Award), Emory University School of Medicine, 2002

Dr. Guest joined the Rollins School of Public Health and School of Medicine at Emory University faculty full time as a professor in the fall of 2015.  Previously, she served as the Director of HIV Research at the Atlanta VA Medical Center and an associate professor at Emory University, both in the School of Medicine and Rollins School of Public Health.  She also serves as faculty for the CDC’s Epidemiology Intelligence Service program, is the Associate Program Director for the Emory PA Program and Director of the PA/MPH dual degree program. She is the co-founder of the HIV Atlanta VA Cohort Study (HAVACS) and has led more than 40 HIV-related studies.  

Dr. Guest is the faculty councilor for the Emory Board of Trustees Woodruff Health Sciences Committee and the Executive Committee of Health Emory.  She is the co-chair Woodruff Health Sciences Council on Interprofessional Education and a steering committee member for the Woodruff Health Educators Academy (WHEA). 

Dr. Guest was the chair of the 2019 National LGBTQ Health Conference held at Emory in May 2019 and is co-chair of the 2021 conference. She is on the Atlanta Mayor's LGBTQ Advisory Board including serving on the executive committee and as tri-chair of the city's LGBTQ Health Committee. She also serves as Atlanta's Public Health Advisor for monkeypox.

She lectures extensively on the use of epidemiologic study formats in the clinical medicine arena.  She is on the steering committee for the international cohort collaboration ART-CC, and is a reviewer for AIDS, Journal of AIDS, Pharmacotherapy, International Journal of Epidemiology and Clinical Infectious Diseases. She serves on the editorial board for International Scholarly Research Network AIDS, Journal of Epidemiology & Drug Research, International STD Research & Reviews. She has mentored more than 60 master’s students thesis work, eight doctoral students, multiple residents and fellows, as well as 54 MMSc PA students each year.

Dr. Guest leads the for Emory Farmworker Project held each year in South Georgia.  She is the Founder and Executive Director of Teen Corp, a medical and philanthropy organization created to bring experiential learning to youth leaders.

Dr. Guest is leading a COVID-19 outbreak response team in Hall County, Georgia and other hard hit communities across Georgia.  She serves on the leadership team for the Emory COVID Response Collaborative (ECRC) working on outbreak response testing to support state health districts.  Since the pandemic began, she has been a regular contributor to national media on the pandemic and is the host of Emory's weekly COVID-19 Facebook live updates. 

Dr. Guest has served as an advisor for multiple organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic.  She was the COVID Czar for the 2021 and 2022 Iditarod Race, directing all prevention plans, testing and tracing for the 1,100 mile race, and now serves as the Iditarod Epidemiologist.