Research Resources

Research Facilities
The Rollins School of Public Health is housed across three adjacent, connected buildings: the Grace Crum Rollins Building, the Claudia Nance Rollins Building, and the R. Randall Rollins Building. The school sits within the Emory Biomedical Research Complex, with adjacencies to the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, the O. Wayne Rollins Research Center, the Whitehead Biomedical Research Center, and the Woodruff Health Sciences library. These interconnected facilities provide researchers with state-of-the-art laboratories, cores, computing resources, conference rooms, and lectures halls to facilitate multidisciplinary, collaborative research across the biomedical sciences.
Laboratories
Rollins has over 20,000 square feet of laboratory space in the Claudia Nance Rollins Building. Researchers are assigned space based on shared interests and needs, and the open laboratory concepts allow for enhanced collaboration between groups. Researchers can also expand their laboratory capabilities with full access to the Emory University Integrated Core Facilities.
Computing
Information technology resources are provided jointly by the Emory University Library and Information Technology Services and Rollins. Rollins-specific resources are designed for the endeavors of public health research and teaching to assure our researchers have access to state of the art computing infrastructure. Rollins is host to its own high performance computing cluster that provides a high throughput computational environment suitable for research requiring access to large numbers of computing processors, large contiguous memory availability, and fast data storage.
Innovation Grants
The Dean’s Pilot Innovation Grant program creates opportunities for early-career faculty to obtain preliminary data and build collaborations that can be rapidly leveraged to develop extramural research projects. This program encourages applicants to collaborate with established faculty to develop strong mentorships that support the success of early-career faculty. The projects supported must be new, highly innovative, currently unfunded and unpublished, and designed in a way that could lead to an application for a larger extramural grant within two years following the award.
Applications are due in May each year. Pilots begin on September 1 each year and have a strict budget period of two years.

Maya Nadimpalli, PhD, assistant professor of environmental health, won a Dean's Pilot Innovation Award in 2022.
Dean's Pilot Innovation Award Winners
Read about past recipients of the Dean's Pilot Innovation award from recent years and get inspired.

Dean’s 2024 Pilot Innovation Award Winners Announced
Descriptions of the research of four faculty members who have been chosen as the Dean’s 2024 Pilot Innovation Award winners.

Dean’s 2023 Pilot Innovation Award Winners Announced
The recipients of the 2023 RSPH Dean’s Pilot Innovation Awards are granted support with projects that are new, highly innovative, currently unpublished and unfunded, and that possess the potential to lead to larger extramural grants.
Dean’s 2022 Pilot Innovation Award Winners Announced
The Rollins School of Public Health is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2022 Dean’s Pilot Innovation Awards.