Jodie Guest

Senior Vice Chair, Department of Epidemiology

Director, WHSC Office of Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice

Director, Science Communication Certificate Program

Director, Emory Farmworker Project

President-Elect, Emory University Senate

Chair-Elect, Emory University Faculty Council

Research Strategy Fellow, Office of Research Administration

2025 US Public Health Service National Award for Excellence for Interprofessional Education

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 faculty of both the Rollins School of Public Health and the School of Medicine at Emory University as a full-time professor in the fall of 2015. Prior to this, she served as Director of HIV Research at the Atlanta VA Medical Center, where she led more than 40 HIV-related studies and co-founded the HIV Atlanta VA Cohort Study (HAVACS). During this time, she also held a joint appointment as Associate Professor in both the School of Medicine and the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory.

She currently serves on the faculty of the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) program and is the Associate Program Director for the Emory Physician Assistant Program.

A prominent leader in Emory’s health sciences community, Dr. Guest serves as faculty counselor to the Emory Board of Trustees’ Woodruff Health Sciences Committee and is a member of the Executive Committee of Health Emory. She is the Director of Emory’s Office of Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice and leads a cross-disciplinary course spanning the Schools of Nursing, Medicine, and Public Health. She is also the 2025 Research Impact Fellow with Emory’s Office of Research Administration, focusing on public scholarship. Dr. Guest previously chaired the Rollins School of Public Health Faculty Council and currently serves as the 2025 President-Elect of the University Senate and Chair-Elect of the University Faculty Council.

She chaired the National LGBTQ Health Conference at Emory in both 2019 and 2024. In the city of Atlanta, she serves on the Mayor’s LGBTQ Advisory Board, where she is a member of the executive committee and tri-chair of the LGBTQ Health Committee. She also serves as the city’s Public Health Advisor for MPOX.

Dr. Guest lectures extensively on the application of epidemiologic study designs in clinical settings and serves on the steering committee of the international ART-CC cohort collaboration. She is a regular peer reviewer for several leading journals, including AIDS, Journal of AIDS, Pharmacotherapy, International Journal of Epidemiology, and Clinical Infectious Diseases. Additionally, she serves on the editorial boards of ISRN AIDS, Journal of Epidemiology & Drug Research, and International STD Research & Reviews.

Over the course of her career, Dr. Guest has mentored more than 60 master’s thesis students, 10 doctoral candidates, numerous residents and fellows, and approximately 54 MMSc PA students annually.

She also directs the Emory Farmworker Project, a longstanding initiative that delivers annual healthcare services to farmworker communities in South Georgia.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Guest founded and led Emory’s COVID-19 Outbreak Response Team, working in Hall County and other hard-hit areas across Georgia from 2020 to 2023. A frequent contributor to national media, she also hosted Emory’s weekly COVID-19 Facebook Live updates.

Dr. Guest served as a public health advisor to multiple organizations during the pandemic. Notably, she was appointed COVID Czar for the 2021 and 2022 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, overseeing all prevention protocols, testing, and contact tracing for the 1,100-mile event. She now serves as the Iditarod’s Public Health Director.