Education


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    September 20, 2024 | Event Helps Prepare Emory Public Health, Medical Students for Disease Outbreak Response

    Students from Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health and School of Medicine took part in an interdisciplinary tabletop exercise that challenged them to work together to effectively respond to an infectious disease outbreak scenario.

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    June 5, 2024 | Academic Partnerships Could Help Revitalize the Public Health Workforce. Here’s How.

    A new Rollins-authored commentary published in Health Affairs highlights a possible solution to public health workforce shortages as modeled by the Rollins Epidemiology Fellowship Program.

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    April 25, 2024 | Rollins Health Education Institute Launching Summer 2024

    RHEDI will offer continuing education for anyone who is interested in expanding their public health knowledge and skills.

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    April 19, 2024 | CDC Director Shares Vision for Future of Public Health

    On April 17, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Mandy Cohen, MD, joined Rollins Dean M. Daniele Fallin, PhD, for a fireside chat. The event, sponsored by the CDC Employee Association of Emory Alumni, brought together these two public health leaders to discuss their shared vision for the future.

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    March 11, 2024 | Rollins Faculty and Staff to Present at ASPPH

    Rollins faculty and staff will present at a number of sessions during ASPPH's annual meeting March 21-23.

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    February 15, 2024 | New Textbook Makes Epidemiology Approachable and Accessible

    Lauren Christiansen-Lindquist and Kristin M. Wall have authored a new epidemiology textbook that makes epidemiology accessible and approachable.

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    March 28, 2022 | Commentary Offers Five Specific Suggestions for State Policymakers to Improve School Mental Health Services

    Rollins researchers, Janet R. Cummings and Adam S. Wilk recently authored a commentary in JAMA Pediatrics that offers state legislators strategies for improving child mental health programs and services in school settings.

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    December 10, 2021 | Saving Lives by Training the Public Health Workforce in Diabetes Prevention

    Emory's Diabetes Training and Technical Assistance Center has worked for more than 10 years to train and amplify a nationwide workforce to scale the National Diabetes Prevention Program.

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    November 23, 2021 | Moose Alperin Elected to APHA Executive Board and Awarded the Chair’s Citation

    In her new role as an executive board member, Moose Alperin will work to ensure the organizational and fiscal health of APHA including a focus on increasing membership engagement and retention.

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    October 4, 2021 | Authors Share Best Practices for Global Health Training in a Post-COVID-19 Era

    Dr. Scott McNabb is lead author on an article offering five key suggestions for improving the delivery of curricula to global health learners post-pandemic.

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    September 29, 2021 | Rollins Experts Provide COVID Prevention Guidance to Local School

    Rollins community members are advising the GLOBE Academy in Atlanta on COVID-19 prevention measures.

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    September 20, 2021 | Forthcoming Book Examines Shortcomings and Provides Recommendations in Global Pandemic Response

    Several faculty and students are engaged with creating the forthcoming book, "Modernizing Global Health Security to Prevent, Detect, and Respond," which is slated for a mid-2022 release from Elsevier.

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    September 20, 2021 | Commentary Emphasizes Need for Collective Responsibility in COVID-19 Response

    Dabney P. Evans is an author on a recent commentary that examines moral issues affiliated with masking guidance and public health messaging in the COVID-19 pandemic.

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    May 20, 2021 | Inaugural Rollins Innovation Summit Launches This August

    The summit will train industry leaders to develop skills for public health solutions for business growth and social good.

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    November 20, 2020 | Recent Rollins Research Publications

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    October 30, 2020 | Environmental Health Students Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Current students from the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health work to fight the global pandemic.

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    June 1, 2020 | Region IV Public Health Training Center Responds to COVID-19

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    January 16, 2020 | Ilana Graetz Guest Editor-in-Chief of AJMC's IT Issue

    Graetz edited the ninth annual IT issue of The American Journal of Managed Care, out now.

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    December 12, 2019 | Rollins Student Wins 2019 Donald A. Pegg Student Leadership Award

    EMPH student Krystyna Rastorguieva was recognized with this award by the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.

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    November 4, 2019 | W. Dana Flanders Receives Abraham Lilienfeld Award

    Professor Flanders epitomizes eminence in epidemiology teaching and research

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    April 22, 2019 | LGBTQ Health Conference is May 30-June 1

    Emory University will host the 6th National LGBTQ Health Conference from May 30-June 1, 2019

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    February 4, 2019 | Rollins Faculty Named President-Elect of SOPHE

    Cam Escoffery is the new president-elect of the Society for Public Health Education.

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    December 19, 2018 | ASPPH Leaders Meet at CDC

    Several ASPPH member deans, including Rollins Dean James W. Curran, met with CDC Director Robert R. Redfield.

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    November 20, 2018 | Rollins is hiring for two dean positions

    Rollins is looking to hire an associate dean for research and an associate dean for public health practice

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    October 16, 2018 | FDA regulation has failed to close birth defects prevention gap

    JAMA research letter finds FDA regulation permitting folic acid fortification of corn masa flour has fallen short of expectations.

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    July 22, 2018 | Emory hosts global conference on justice research

    "Interrogating Injustice" event highlights issues related to race, health care and where the two overlap.

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    May 23, 2018 | Georgia Climate Research Roadmap identifies state's top 40 climate research questions

    This list of questions can help policymakers and practitioners better understand and address climate change in Georgia.

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    May 16, 2018 | Emory public health experts call for more women in global health leadership roles

    Essay emphasizes the shortage of women holding global health leadership roles and highlights the GROW program

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    April 13, 2018 | Kathleen Miner named 2018 Charles Hatcher Award Recipient

    Kathleen Miner is the 2018 recipient of the Charles R. Hatcher Jr. Award for Excellence in Public Health.

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    March 30, 2018 | Rollins Students Receive Healthcare Innovation Seed Grants

    Grants go toward funding research and education projects addressing health care quality, costs and/or access.

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    February 7, 2018 | Dabney P. Evans recipient of the 2018 ASPPH Early Career Public Health Teaching Award

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    December 12, 2017 | Study finds link between marriage age and long-term economic empowerment for women in Egypt

    Study in Egypt finds positive correlation between delaying marriage until adulthood and women's long-term economic empowerment

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    December 20, 2016 | Rollins researchers convene for regional conference on opioid epidemic

    Rollins hosts opioid conference- Opioid Epidemic: Crafting an Effective Public Health Response

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    December 5, 2016 | Exercise is Medicine hosts technology and Think Tank conference

    Exercise is Medicine hosts the conference "The Wild Wild West of Quantified Healthcare."

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    November 30, 2016 | Emory experts take on the HIV paradox

    HIV rates of infected men who have sex with men in some Southern cities twice as high as the national average.

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    November 17, 2016 | Parents' perceptions of neighborhood safety have impact on kids' physical activity

    Kids from neighborhoods perceived as safe by parents are more active, according to study.

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    October 6, 2016 | The Task Force for Global Health receives world's largest humanitarian prize

    The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation has awarded The Task Force for Global Health with the Hilton Humanitarian Prize.

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    May 6, 2016 | Early architect of public health at Emory wins Scholar/Teacher Award

    Nancy Thompson wins the Scholar/Teacher Award.

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    February 22, 2016 | School of Public Health launches research center in new Exercise is Medicine partnership

    Some of the country's largest fitness orgs announced partnership integrating fitness with health care

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    January 13, 2016 | School of Public Health names associate dean for Academic Affairs

    Kim Arriola named associate dean for Academic Affairs