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Faculty Annual Report Form
ANNUAL REPORT OF FACULTY PROVIDED TO CHAIRS
(for academic year: August, 2003-August, 2004)
Name:
Department:
I. SPECIAL HONORS (list)
II. TEACHING ACHIEVEMENTS
A. List courses taught and enrollment
B. MPH/MSPH thesis committees chaired: List titles (or tentative titles) and name of
students)
C. MPH/MSPH thesis committees on which you served but did not chair (list names of
students)
D. PhD dissertation committees chaired (list names of students)
E. PhD dissertation committees on which you served but did not chair (list names of
students)
F. New courses developed and taught (list titles)
G. Other teaching achievements (list each)
III. SERVICE/PRACTICE ACHIEVEMENTS
A. List service activities for the RSPH
B. List service activities for Emory University
C. List service activities for your profession
D. List editorial boards or editorships
E. List public health practice activities (consultations, technical assistance, funding
programs targeting public health needs)
F. Place an asterisk on theses listed above (in II.B) that contributed in some direct way to
the community’s public health (Note: this information is needed for department and
school annual report)
IV. RESEARCH/SCHOLARSHIP ACHIEVEMENTS
A. List full citations of articles published in refereed journals during the academic year
B. List authors, title and journal of refereed articles accepted for publications during the
academic year
C. List full citations of book chapters authored and published or in press during the
academic year
D. List full citations of edited or authored books published or in press the academic year
E. List grants, contracts or cooperative agreements funded during he academic year
1. PI or Co-PIs
2. Your role in the project (if not PI or Co-PI)
3. Title of project
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4. Funding agency
5. Direct costs for year
6. Indirect costs for year
F. List grants, contracts and cooperative agreements pending
1. PI or Co-PI
2. Your role in the project (if not PI or Co-PI)
3. Title of project
4. Funding agency
5. Direct costs requested for year
6. Indirect costs requested for year
G. Presentations at professional meetings (list authors, title and meeting)
H. List other achievements in scholarship or research
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Annual Report Executive Summaries
The 2003-04 Annual Report Executive Summary had not been finalized when this document was
printed. It will be available in the resource file during the site visit.
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Annual Report 2002-2003 Rollins School of Public Health
Executive Summary
The Rollins School of Public Health (RSPH) aspires to excellence through its mission of
improving health and preventing disease in human populations around the world by acquiring,
disseminating and applying knowledge. We seek to be viewed by our peers as among the "top
five" schools of public health in the quality and impact of our research and educational programs
and have made significant advances toward our goals during the past academic year.
Build a Faculty of Excellence
A 2002-03 survey by U.S. News and World Report of deans and department chairs in the 32
accredited schools of public health resulted in the RSPH being ranked as ninth in quality based
on our "general reputation." Concurrently, the School began a process of examining how to
improve the performance of its principal missions as part of a Self Study. The Self Study will
prepare the School for its re-accreditation site visit by the Council on Education for Public
Health on December 6-8, 2004.
The most important indicator of the School's quality is its faculty. Our faculty remains nationally
visible and their achievements have been recognized by numerous honors during the past year.
For example, Dr. Carol Hogue, Terry Professor of Maternal and Child Health and Professor of
Epidemiology, is serving as President of the American College of Epidemiology and Dr.
Reynaldo Martorell, Woodruff Professor of International Nutrition, was inducted into the
Institute of Medicine, National Academic of Sciences. Dr. Colleen DiIorio, Professor of
Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, was recognized as Distinguished Nurse Researcher
by the National Institute of Nursing Research, Jay Bernhardt, Assistant Professor of Behavioral
Sciences and Health Education, is the youngest member ever elected to the Executive Board of
the American Public Health Association and Dr. Kenneth Thorpe, Woodruff Professor of Health
Policy and Management, shaped health policy proposals of several leading Democratic Party
presidential candidates. This year, Dean James W. Curran became Chair-Elect of the Association
of Schools of Public Health, the National Chair of all Centers for AIDS Research Directors and
the Director of the Board of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at the Institute of
Medicine.
During the previous academic year, the School made several key academic appointments and
initiated recruitments that will substantially strengthen us in key areas. They include Jack S.
Mandel, PhD, MPH, Rollins Professor of Epidemiology and Department Chair, who joined the
School at the start of the 2002-03 academic year. An expert in environmental and lifestyle factors
in the etiology of cancers, Dr. Mandel was formerly Mayo Professor of Public Health at the
University of Minnesota. Dr. Mandel subsequently initiated the recruitment of additional faculty
including Michael Goodman, MD, MPH, as Assistant Professor of Epidemiology. To further
strengthen the programs of cancer research, Dr. Mandel recruited molecular epidemiologist
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Roberd Bostick, MD, MPH, as Professor of Epidemiology. Dr. Bostick, formerly Professor of
Epidemiology and Director of the Division of Population Sciences at the University of South
Carolina Cancer Center, will also be supported by the Winship Cancer Institute when he joins the
faculty during the next academic year.
Dr. Mandel was appointed a Georgia Cancer Coalition Scholar, joining the previously appointed
RSPH Scholar, Kyle Steenland, PhD, Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health. Two
additional senior faculty recruits were also approved as Scholars. Joseph Lipscomb, PhD,
currently Chief, Outcomes Research Branch at the National Cancer Institute (NIH) and formerly
an award-winning teacher and economist on the faculty of Duke University, will join the
School's Department of Health Policy and Management in 2004. Karen Glanz, PhD, MPH,
currently Professor and Director, Social and Behavioral Sciences Program, Cancer Research
Center, University of Hawaii, and the author of 160 publications on health promotion and
chronic disease prevention, will become Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education
in 2003-04.
The School recruited Benjamin Druss, MD, MPH, as the endowed Rosalynn Carter Chair in
Mental Health and Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management. Dr. Druss came to
Emory from Yale University where he was Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Public Health
and the author of numerous publications on the prevalence and impact of clinical depression,
problems in access to health services, and other aspects of health services related to the interface
of mental health and primary care in major periodicals including the New England Journal of
Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and Health Affairs.
Kimberly Rask, MD, PhD, was recruited as Director of the Emory Center on Health Outcomes
and Quality, the Woodruff Health Sciences Center unit focusing on health services research, and
as Research Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management. Trained in medicine and
economics, Dr. Rask's primary appointment was formerly in Emory University School of
Medicine. In addition, Scott Bartell, PhD, was recruited as Assistant Professor of Environmental
and Occupational Health from the University of California, Davis.
We continue to search for a faculty member to serve as Rollins Professor and Chair, Department
of Biostatistics, a senior biostatistician to collaborate with cancer researchers at the Winship
Cancer Institute, will initiate a search for the William H. Foege Professor of Global Health,
endowed by the Hubert Family Foundation, and anticipate additional faculty searches in most
departments in the coming year.
Strengthen Programs of Research
The quality and quantity of research has improved significantly this year. Our tenure track
faculty authored 550 refereed articles (an average of 9 per faculty member) published or in press
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during the academic year along with 80 book chapters. Faculty without tenure track
appointments authored 183 refereed articles and 32 book chapters. The faculty also authored or
edited 15 books, either appearing or in press during the year. A recent study reported that three
RSPH faculty members are among the top twenty cited behavioral science researchers in AIDS:
Drs. David Holtgrave (#3), Ralph DiClemente (#12) and Gina Wingood (#17).
The School's sponsored awards grew to more than $45 million (with over $37 million in
expenditures), an increase of approximately 24% over the previous year. That represents an
average of over $600,000 in awards per tenure track faculty member. The RSPH is currently
second to the School of Medicine in the amount of funded research awards and expenditures.
Our Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, with 14 tenure track faculty
members and $17.8 million in research awards, is the 4th leading department on campus.
Funding from NIH increased 64% over the preceding year to $18.1 million. Among our research
awards, the NIH-funded Center for AIDS Research was renewed for a period of five years for
$7.5 million. The increased sponsored research activity reflects broad-based faculty effort from
across the school, at the junior and senior levels.
The School maintains considerable strength in research on HIV/AIDS and is adding to its
capacity in cancer etiology and control. Faculty in several departments share interests in
environmental epidemiology, material and child health, investigational design and analytic
methods, infectious diseases, outcomes of health interventions, and social disparities and health.
Provide Research and Training as Service to the Public Health Community
The 2002 gift of $4.2 million from the O. Wayne Rollins Foundation to establish the Rollins
Center of Public Health Preparedness and Research resulted in a number of programs designed to
strengthen the public health infrastructure and enhance public safety. The Center initiated its
monthly Triangle Club Lecture Series and, with $1 million in annual funding from CDC, it
initiated the Georgia Public Health Preparedness Scholars Program under the direction of
Associate Dean Kathleen Miner. Public health employees of the State of Georgia received
scholarships to complete the MPH degree through the distance-based Career MPH (CMPH)
Program.
Our collaboration with the State of Georgia has continued through the Georgia Center for Cancer
Statistics (GCCS), housed in the Department of Epidemiology and directed by Dr. John Young.
This year, the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries awarded the GCCS a
Gold Certificate for exemplary performance and the National Cancer Institute renewed the
Center's Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program for seven years with a
budget of over $12 million. The School's Tobacco and Technical Assistance Consortium
(TTAC), a national resource center for information on training for prevention and cessation of
tobacco use funded by the American Cancer Society, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the
American Legacy Foundation, provided technical assistance to a number of states in the planning
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and evaluation of smoking cessation and tobacco prevention programs. Finally, the RSPH
offered 258 continuing education programs attended by 6944 persons during the 2002-03
academic year. Continuing education credit was offered at 123 (48%) of the activities.
Recruit High Quality Students and Provide an Excellent Teaching Program
We continue to attract students with outstanding credentials and have sustained the numbers of
applicants and matriculated students. The number of current students (776) is comparable to the
top-ranked schools of public health. There are a growing number of schools and programs in
public health resulting in increased competition for the best applicants. Despite increased
competition for students, the School achieved its enrollment targets in 2002-03 and anticipates an
increase of nearly 10% in enrollment for the 2003-04 academic year.
The quality, as indicated in mean Graduate Record Examination scores (1707) and
undergraduate grade point average (3.33) is comparable to the previous year. Diversity of the
student body is very evident in the class entering our masters programs in Fall, 2002. Ages of
entering students ranged from 20-56 and 17% held medical or other doctoral degrees. Eighteen
percent of the students came from 36 countries outside the United States. Thirty-two percent of
the American students were ethnic minorities, 21% being African American. The ethnic diversity
of our student body, particularly in the enrollment of African American students, is greater than
all but a few schools of public health.
A major advantage of the RSPH to students is its location. Proximity to CDC and other health
and public health institutions offers opportunities to work with a large cadre of the world's best
public health professionals through their roles as adjunct teachers in our classrooms, as thesis
advisors and through practicum experiences. RSPH students are significantly over-represented
among the Centers for Disease Control/Association of Schools of Public Health Fellowship and
Internship Programs. In 2002-03, of the 32 accredited schools of public health, students from the
RSPH were 20% (10 of 50) of CDC/ASPH Fellows (a program for MPH graduates) and 18% (9
of 49) of all Interns (12-week summer program).
Instruction in the MPH and MSPH program continues to receive very positive evaluations by
students on course evaluations and exit questionnaires. Most (70%) of our classes enroll fewer
than 30 students. Of the twenty RSPH students taking the examination to become Certified
Health Education Specialists in 2002, 100% passed as compared to the national rate of 72.8%.
Through the Eugene J. Gangarosa Scholarship Fund, the O.C. Hubert Fellowships in
International Health and the Anne E. and William A. Foege Global Health Funds, the School
supported 37 students to travel to 26 different countries for field experiences and thesis research.
In addition, the Peace Corps Masters International Program, in which students combine studies
with a Peace Corps assignment, enrolled six students with six additional students expected to
enroll in the cohort in the next academic year.
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Student exit survey responses and related observations suggested the need for improving support
for student services. The School therefore created a new position, Assistant Dean for Student
Affairs, to oversee student services, and recruited JoNell (Jody) Usher, Ph.D., to serve in that
role. Dr. Usher came with considerable experience at Emory, having worked in Emory College,
the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Office of the President. Under Dr. Usher's
direction, new Directors of Enrollment Services and Career Services were recruited.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation made its first endowment gift ever, establishing with a
$5 million gift, the William H. Foege Fellowships in Global Health at the RSPH to honor Dr.
Foege, RSPH Presidential Distinguished Professor of Public Health and a senior advisor to the
foundation. The first four Foege Fellows were selected during the current academic year and will
begin studying for the MPH degree in Fall, 2003, and working with the agency that collaborated
in their recruitment. The fellows are mid-career professionals from North Sudan, South Sudan,
Niger and Zambia who were recruited in collaboration with the Carter Center and CARE
International. Additional international students come to the School through the Humphrey,
Muskie and Fogarty Fellows Programs. In 2002-03 the School hosted five Humphrey Fellows
from Mexico, Ghana, Namibia, Cambodia and Kenya, 8 Muskie Fellows from Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Republic of Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine and Fogarty Fellows studying
HIV/AIDS from Veitnam, Mexico and Soviet Georgia.
The combined degree program with Emory College and the RSPH allows undergraduates to
enroll in MSPH degree courses in Biostatistics during their fourth year of undergraduate
enrollment and complete the remaining requirements in the RSPH in one year following the
baccalaureate degree. The program was approved during the present academic year and will be
launched in the 03-04 academic year. The Career MPH Program, offered through episodic oncampus sessions and web-based instruction, continues to grow and attract students. This year, a
cohort of 37 experienced health professionals, including 11 physicians and 3 others with doctoral
training, enrolled. In collaboration with the School of Medicine and supported, in part, by NIH,
the Master of Science in Clinical Research (MSCR) Program enrolled 5 physicians who are
Emory residents, fellows or junior faculty and a new cohort of 10 will be entering in 2003-04.
Although the RSPH is comparable to other leading schools of public health in numbers of
master's degree students, it is lacking in the number of doctoral programs and students compared
to peer institutions. The RSPH initiated the development of two new doctoral programs, one in
Health Services Research and Policy to be offered by the Department of Health Policy and
Management and a second in Behavioral Sciences and Health Education to be offered by the
department of that name. In May, 2003, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences approved, in
principle, the offering of both programs and the school hopes to launch both programs in Fall,
2004.
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Achieve Fiscal Stability
The School completed the current academic year "in the black" for the eighth year in a row. The
Annual Operating Budget has grown from $17.5 million in 1995 to $51.7 million in 2003. The
market value of the total school endowment has grown to $24.1 million in 2003 from $2.3
million in 1996. In addition to the $475,000 Hubert Foundation's contribution towards a $1.4
million pledge for the William H. Foege Chair in Global Health, Dr. Eugene Gangarosa, Emory's
former MPH Program Director, donated a lead gift of $506,000 for a chair in safe water. The
School also received a gift of $100,000 from the Boisfeuillet Jones Family to establish a
scholarship fund.
Future Initiatives
Detailed goals and objectives are included in the School's annual report. They are organized as
they pertain to the School's Mission and Goals and the Values Platform of Emory University.
The goals and objectives result from: 1) The School Strategic Plan (with faculty input); 2)
Department Goals and Objectives (annually submitted with faculty input); 3) Student Exit
Evaluations (annually derived from a web-based survey of graduating students); 4) Accreditation
guidelines of the Council for Education in Public Health; 5) Recommendations from the field of
public health such as the Institute of Medicine's recent report, Who Will Keep the Public
Healthy?; and 6) Annual faculty retreats. Our past accomplishments set the stage for future
initiatives, most requiring additional resources.
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Annual Report 2001-2002 Rollins School of Public Health
Executive Summary
The Rollins School of Public Health aspires to excellence through its mission of improving
health and preventing disease in human populations around the world by acquiring,
disseminating and applying knowledge. We have advanced our mission through specific goals
and objectives over the past three years.
Acquiring Knowledge
Our research program has been growing, partly indicated by increased external funding--last year
an increase of 34% over the previous year to $34.5 million (an average of over $500,000 per
tenure-track faculty member). The quantity of publications (tenure track faculty authored an
average of 7 refereed articles per year) and the quality of journals in which they appear are
impressive. Gifts from the O. Wayne Rollins Foundation have made it possible to recruit a new
chair and endowed Rollins Professorship for the Department of Epidemiology (Dr. Jack S.
Mandel) and will enable him to further build the department and its capacity for research in
cancer and cancer control. This has been a high priority for the school.
Rollins funds will also be used in the current search for a chair of the Department of
Biostatistics. A growing research community within the Woodruff Health Sciences Center
requires biostatistical consultation and so, with Woodruff Funds, Dr. Michael Kutner has been
leading a faculty group to assess the most desirable model for building and supporting such a
center. A related priority for the school is building the computer capacity to support related
biostatistical research activity internal to the school and across the health sciences center.
Over the past three years, faculty members have been recruited to all six departments. Of
particular note, we have been successful in building our smallest department, Environmental and
Occupational Health, by appointing a cancer epidemiologist, Dr. Nelson Kyle Steenland as the
School's first Georgia Cancer Coalition Scholar. Teaming with the Departments of Neurology
and Pharmacology, we also recruited Dr. Gary Miller from the University of Texas. Behavioral
Sciences and Health Education, the department with the fifth highest external funding level at
Emory, claims perhaps the strongest group of social and behavioral scientists in the area of
HIV/AIDS in the country. Their strength is complemented by Emory's Center for AIDS
Research, which NIH recently committed to fund for the next five years.
We successfully concluded a search for the endowed Rosalynn Carter Chair in Mental Health
with the recruitment of Benjamin Druss, MD, MPH, from Yale University. Dr. Druss will carry
out his teaching and research program on stigma and access to health services for the mentally
impaired within the Department of Health Policy and Management while working with the
Carter Center and Emory's Department of Psychiatry.
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Disseminating Knowledge
With growing numbers of MPH programs and schools, we sustained the enrollment of high
quality students, as reflected in their GPAs, standard examination scores and other achievements.
We have also increased the ethnic diversity of our student body, with minority enrollment
growing from 37% in the previous year to 42% of new students and increased the proportion of
entering African-American students from 20% to 23%. Student course evaluations, carefully
monitored across the school, suggest that the classroom experience is quite positive. Web-based
exit questionnaires completed by graduating students provide a similar picture.
Responding to new directions in the public health workplace, the Department of Biostatistics
introduced a focus on Public Health Informatics that appears to be attracting additional
applications from new constituencies. The Department of Environmental and Occupational
Health teamed with the Department of International Health in launching the Global
Environmental Health Program for students interested in addressing policies and programs
responding to environmental hazards and threats in developing countries. We hope to attract
additional talented Emory undergraduates to the Department of Biostatistics with a five-year BAMSPH program with the College's Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences.
The Career Master of Public Health (CMPH) Program, designed for mid-career professionals
who meet episodically on campus for several days, interspersed with web-based instruction,
continues to attract substantial cohorts from the state, the region and across the country. This
innovative format enables our School to provide skills to professionals already in leadership
positions and unable to return to full-time study. The CMPH program is attracting external
funding for the development of training in particular areas such as Outcomes Research, Maternal
and Child Health Epidemiology, Health Communications and Bio-Terrorism. As faculty engage
in CMPH instruction, the technology and instructional innovations introduced through the
CMPH program are filtering into regular classroom activities, improving the quality of
instruction across the School.
The RSPH has considerably fewer doctoral programs and students than other major schools of
public health. Many of our MPH and MSPH graduates continue their studies in doctoral
programs at peer institutions. Faculty in the social and behavioral sciences are in the process of
developing a doctoral program in Prevention Sciences and faculty in health services and health
economics are developing a program in Health Services and Outcomes Research. The School
plans to collaborate with other graduate school departments in offering this training. We
anticipate presenting a proposal for review by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in Fall,
2002.
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Applying Knowledge
In building capacity for cancer research, the School will better integrate the National Cancer
Institute-funded Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Program with its program of
research and with the needs of the State of Georgia. The Georgia Cancer Coalition, a priority of
the Governor, has funded the School's first scholar and additional recruitments are in progress.
The School has also become the site of the Tobacco and Technical Assistance Consortium
(TTAC), a national resource to provide information on training for prevention and cessation of
tobacco use. TTAC is funded ($15.3 million over three years) by the Master Tobacco Settlement
and by a coalition of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, American Cancer Society and the
Legacy Foundation to support states with the development and evaluation of their anti-tobacco
programs.
The Emory Center on Health Outcomes and Quality, a former Aetna center placed by the Health
Sciences Center in our Department of Health Policy and Management, has successfully attracted
funding for applied research for the private and public sector. The School's Southeast Institute
for Training and Evaluation also continues to assistant state health departments and organizations
in their training of staff and program evaluations and the School's continuing education program
is growing, this year offering 196 activities for over 5200 attendees.
Several RSPH faculty members were quite visible in efforts to respond to the tragedies of 9-11
and subsequent anthrax infections. The School will continue its leadership role in responding to
the threat of bioterrorism with the establishment of the Rollins Center of Public Health
Preparedness and Research, funded by a $4.2 million gift from the O. Wayne Rollins
Foundation. Headed by Dr. Ruth Berkelman, professor of epidemiology and a former assistant
surgeon general, the Center will initiate applied research and training programs. Dr. James
Buehler came to the Center from a leadership position at the CDC, in a role that will partner with
State of Georgia Division of Public Health. With a grant from the CDC, Dr. Kathleen Miner,
Associate Dean, will oversee the development of a training program in bio-terrorism through the
Center for state health personnel.
A Global Impact
The international visibility of the RSPH continues to grow as faculty work abroad. The endowed
Hubert, Gangarosa and Foege Funds enable us to support practicum experiences and thesis
research around the world for over 40 of our students each year. Growing numbers of student
applications come from outside the US.
Most recently, the School received a $5 million endowment from the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation to honor a faculty member, Dr. William Foege. This will establish the William H.
Foege Fellowships in Global Health at the RSPH, enabling the School to support the training of
additional health leaders and potential leaders from abroad. Further, the O.C. Hubert Foundation
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pledged $1.4 million to establish a William H. Foege Chair of International Health. This growing
presence in international health training will complement the School's existing programs of
Hubert Humphrey, Muskie and Fogarty Fellows.
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Annual Report 2000-2001 Rollins School of Public Health
Executive Summary
The Rollins School of Public Health is engaged in the discovery of new knowledge to improve
the health and well being of populations and to translate that research into action through
community-based interventions. We provide students with the skills to carry out science-based
practice as they learn in the classroom, public health agencies and the community. In this school,
interdisciplinary teaching and research are the norm and we provide global visibility for Emory
University through links between our faculty and students to the world.
The Rollins School of Public Health sets annual goals and objectives in accord with the values
platform of Emory University, Choices and Responsibility, and its mission to achieve excellence
in research, teaching and the practice of public health. The school's annual report measures the
extent to which we met the goals and objectives for 2000-01 and provides a revised set of goals
and objectives for the next academic year. It benchmarks the move towards excellence in
achieving our mission. Goals and objectives for the school emanate from our mission and are
revised periodically through the school's strategic planning, faculty and department chair retreats
and with the consideration of input from student course evaluations and the exit survey.
Five-Year Review:
A panel of experts reviewed the school's progress over the past five years under the leadership of
Dean James W. Curran. They assessed our strengths and weaknesses, helped us articulate future
goals and recommended steps and resources required for achieving those goals. The team
included the current Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Jeffrey P
Koplan, MD, MPH), the Dean of the University of North Carolina School of Public Health and
former Director of the CDC (William L. Roper, MD, MPH) and the President of the Josiah Macy
Foundation and former Dean of the University of Michigan School of Public Health (June
Osborn, MD).
The evaluators were impressed by our progress in becoming one the strongest schools of public
health in comparison with peer institutions. They were positive about our leadership, direction
and the importance of our school for the university such as in facilitating its aspirations to
become a global institution. They recognized our need to revitalize the Department of
Epidemiology and to build the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and
applauded our steps to arrange external evaluations of the departments and our anticipated steps
to address those weaknesses.
They clearly observed the need for additional resources in order for the school to build to the
next level of excellence. While acknowledging the support we have received to date from the
Health Sciences Center and the central university administration, they believed progress to the
highest levels of excellence as an institution would require an endowment of at least $100
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million or its equivalent in annual support. This support would allow necessary growth, provide
needed internal support for faculty efforts in teaching, practice and research, offer greater
scholarship support for students, build new doctoral programs and enable us to better collaborate
on numerous important opportunities for training and research programs with neighboring public
health institutions. They believe that we are quite strong and, with additional support, have the
potential to become one of the very best schools of public health in the world.
Excellence in Research:
Faculty maintained the pace of successfully competing for extramural funding, exceeding $25
million in direct and indirect costs. As an indicator of success, funding awards from the highly
competitive National Institutes of Health continued to grow. Faculty reported authorship or coauthorship of over 400 articles in refereed journals (an average of over 7 authorships per tenuretrack faculty member), over 60 book chapters and 15 books. Several departments in the school
are among the departments of the university with the largest amount of research funding,
Behavioral Sciences and Health Education being the fourth highest.
During the 00-01 academic year, 9 tenure track faculty and 12 non-tenure track faculty were
either recruited or started teaching on the faculty of the RSPH. Some were recruited from leading
institutions, often through collaborations with other schools at Emory or by multiple
departments. For example, Keith Klugman, MBBCh, PhD, former Director of the South African
Institute for Medical Research and Professor of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at
the University of Witwaterstrand, was recruited as a joint effort of the RSPH, the Department of
Infectious Diseases (Medicine) and the Centers for Disease Control.
Among the senior appointments, David Holtgrave, Ph.D., formerly Director of the Division of
HIV/AIDS Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD and TB and the CDC, was appointed
Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education and Director of the Behavioral Core of
the NIH-funded Center for AIDS Research. John Ford, Ph.D., M.S.W., M.P.H., the new Emory
Vice President for Campus Life, was appointed Professor with tenure in the RSPH. Late this
year, the school recruited Kyle Steenland, Ph.D., from the National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health as Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health, with the support of
state funds from the Georgia Cancer Coalition.
During the next academic year, all six academic departments are likely to be searching for new
tenure-track faculty members that will enhance particular research strengths or fill gaps in their
programs. The Departments of Epidemiology and Environmental and Occupational Health both
underwent external reviews by distinguished panels of experts and the school is preparing to take
steps to carry out many of the recommendations. The school is conducting searches to fill three
endowed chairs, the Ruth and O.C. Hubert Chair in Religion and Health, the Rosalynn Carter
Chair in Mental Health and the Rollins Chair in Epidemiology (to become the new department
chair).
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Excellence in Teaching:
Student course evaluations indicated that classroom teaching was performed at a high level.
Scale scores, ranging from 0-9 (the higher number indicating greater satisfaction), typically had
means of between 7 and 9 on assessing the value of the course, its organization and how well it
was taught. Exit questionnaires, completed by graduating students, revealed similar levels of
approval regarding the overall academic program and training they received. Dr. Phillip
Brachman, Professor of International Health, received the Abraham Lilienfeld Award from the
American Public Health Association for excellence in the teaching of public health.
At a time of declining applicants to graduate and professional schools, the RSPH maintained the
enrollment of new degree-seeking students entering in Fall, 2000, and should do the same in
2001. The quality of entering students was maintained, with an increase in mean Graduate
Record Examination scores. The new Career MPH program, using internet-based distance
learning to complement episodic on-campus classes, attracted 44 mid-career public health
employees, with a comparable enrollment anticipated in 2001. The NIH-sponsored Masters of
Science in Clinical Research program graduated a second cohort of students (some of them
school of medicine faculty) and will enroll a new cohort of 11 physicians. The Masters
International/Peace Corps program enrolled five new students who will combine their MPH
course work with global Peace Corps assignments. We accepted the first two fellows from the
Department of Psychiatry who will complete the MPH degree as part the new Program in
Community Psychiatry. Our Department of Biostatistics recruited the first cohort of students for
a concentration in Informatics. Finally, all MPH and MSPH students are now required to
experience a public health practicum and most students work intensively with a faculty member
on a thesis project as the required "capstone" experience.
Excellence in Public Health Practice:
Students and faculty document the way they serve local, state, national and international
populations through their technical assistance, consultations, research and training. The school is
revising its guidelines for assessment and rewards for excellence in practice and anticipates
adoption in the next academic year. Faculty served on the editorial boards of the most prestigious
journals in their field, played leadership roles in the leading professional associations (such as
the American Public Health Association), contributed to the presidential debates on health
policy, were honored by awards from professional groups and were invited to present honorary
lectures in several countries. As noted, the school has played an important role in educating the
public health workforce through distance learning programs (Career MPH Program), but also
through sponsoring over 140 continuing education events enrolling approximately 6600 people
on campus and in the Atlanta metropolitan area.
Through the leadership of Dr. Ann Haddix, the RSPH is partnering with a number of
organizations including CDC, the Carter Center, the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine,
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WHO and several non-governmental agencies on a project, "Building Momentum for the
Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis," sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The
school recruited Eric Ottesen, MD, perhaps the foremost scientist in lymphatic filarisasis, from
the World Health Organization, as Director of the program at Emory.
We attracted 44 mid-career health professionals to enroll in the Career MPH Program, featuring
distance learning through the internet with episodic on-campus instructional sessions. The school
will become the home of the Training and Technical Assistance Consortium (TTAC), an
organization jointly funded ($15.5 million over three years) by the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, the Legacy Foundation and the American Cancer Society. Its mission is to provide
technical assistance and support for states receiving tobacco settlement funds and applying them
to reduce tobacco use.
Faculty in the school provided significant leadership to national public health organizations. Dr.
Kathleen Miner, Associate Dean for Applied Public Health, served as president of the Council
for Education in Public Health, the accrediting agency for schools and programs in public health.
In recognition of her leadership, Dr. Miner was given the Distinguished Career Award by the
Public Health Education and Health Promotion Section of the American Public Health
Association. Dr. Vicki Hertzberg, chair of the Department of Biostatistics, received the
Excellence in Academics Award from the American Public Health Association Statistics Section.
Balance of Teaching and Research:
Faculty spent considerable time teaching and training as students collaborated with them on
research activities. For example, the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education,
with thirteen tenure-track faculty members, employs over 270 people, most working with faculty
on community-based research projects and many of them students. Leading professionals at
neighboring institutions such as CDC and the American Cancer Society served as active mentors,
thesis advisors and practicum supervisors. In national programs offered to all or most schools of
public health, our students were well represented. Students from the RSPH held nearly one-third
of all Association of Schools of Public Health internships at the CDC and more than half of the
Evaluation Fellowships in a program of the American Cancer Society.
The newly endowed ($1 million) Hubert Fund, along with the Gangarosa and Foege Funds,
enabled over 40 students to travel to countries around the world for field practicum experiences
and/or thesis research. Approximately 70% of all courses in the school were taught to fewer than
30 students and evaluations indicate that students are generally pleased by the quality of
instruction and course content. A new web-based exit questionnaire revealed that most students,
at the time of graduation, were very satisfied with the training received in our school. They also
identified some weaknesses in our educational program that we may now address and include
among our revised goals and objectives. We intend to continue our progress toward new doctoral
programs in prevention science and health services research.
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Build a Stronger Internal Community:
The school has helped departments cover some of the cost of research that can no longer be
funded by federal grants, e.g., computers, secretaries, etc. A faculty retreat was held in August,
2000, to enhance communication and collectively consider efforts to improve the school. The
central administration provided the school with resources to create a dining area and food service
so that faculty and students will have a common area for informal meetings and studying.
As our strategic plan notes, we recognize the value of having the capacity to provide, on average,
50% of the annual salary of faculty for teaching and general academic citizenship (i.e., from
tuition revenue and other internal resources such as endowment). Not including endowed chairs
or junior faculty in the first years of employment, we currently provide faculty an average of
roughly one-third of their annual salary from tuition revenue in exchange for teaching (normally
two courses per year). Having the capacity to provide a greater amount of faculty support from
so-called "hard" money, comparable to the levels available in Emory's Graduate Division of
Biological and Biomedical Sciences, would allow faculty to invest more time in service to the
school and to mentor students, time for writing new research proposals and would enable the
school to support faculty sabbaticals. This outcome is possible with a growth in endowment to
cover administrative and infrastructure costs of the school.
Diversity among students and faculty improved over the past year. The school increased the
proportion of minority enrollment among entering MPH students from 26% the previous year to
37% in fall, 2000. The proportion of African-American students doubled from 10% of entering
students in 1999 to 20% in 2000. Of the 9 tenure-track faculty who were appointed or who
started teaching in 2000-01, 3 (33%) were African- American and of the 12 non-tenure track
faculty added during this period, 5 (42%) were African-American and 1 (8%) was Hispanic.
Encourage Interdisciplinary Scholarship:
RSPH faculty continue to hold joint appointments with several schools and departments, two
new faculty were recruited with joint appointments (and salary support) coming from other
schools (Medicine and Emory College) and one recently hired faculty member is now jointly
appointed and supported by the Department of Anthropology (Emory College). Most tenure
track faculty members are arriving with the expectation of teaching and/or conducting research
with colleagues outside the department and school in which they hold primary appointments. A
number of students were enrolled in dual-degree programs in Medicine, Nursing, Business and
Law and we initiated discussions of a proposal for a five-year BA-BS/MPH-MSPH program
with Emory College. The Master of Science in Clinical Research Program, taught in
collaboration with the School of Medicine, graduated another cohort of students.
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With the support of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Center for the Study of
Health, Culture and Society Fellowship Program again enabled two doctoral students to study for
an MPH degree and two MPH students to enroll in graduate school courses to complement their
studies in public health. The Emory Center for AIDS Research, funded by NIH and headed by
Dean Curran, continued its support of investigators across the Health Sciences Center and
university. The school has also been a leading partner in Emory's Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences application to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to become a campus for the Health
and Society Scholars Program. Emory is now among the finalists in this competitive process.
Keep Pace with Infrastructure Needs:
Despite fiscal challenges and the difficulty in attracting and retaining talented personnel to our
Office of Information Services, the computing environment was improved and 800 users with
over 1000 computers were supported. The opening of the adjacent School of Nursing building
with a shared teaching pavilion has greatly enhanced the quality of our classroom space and the
additional office space has made it possible to consolidate research staff for a number of schoolbased research projects. A badly needed common space is being developed for dining and
studying in connection with the university food service and funded by the central administration.
The school's Office of Student Services has focused considerable energy on improving the webbased and personnel services that facilitate employment opportunities for graduates. Student
services will also give increased attention to the recruitment of new students, advised by a newly
appointed faculty task force in the school.
Build Strong External Relationships:
The Career MPH Program has made graduate training more accessible to mid-career public
health employees as did over 140 continuing education programs delivered to approximately
6600 attendees. We are leading a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-sponsored program, in
collaboration with Emory College, the schools of Medicine and Nursing and Atlanta Public
Schools (the Health Professions Program Initiative), designed to interest inner-city minority
students in health profession careers. The USIA-sponsored Hubert Humphrey Fellowship
Program, Edmund Muskie Fellowship Program and the new Emory AIDS International Training
and Education Program sponsored by the Fogarty International Center (NIH) brought 20 midcareer health professionals from around the world to Emory for 1-2 years of study. We are
partnering with several international organizations including CDC, the Carter Center, the
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, WHO and several international health non-governmental
organizations on a project sponsored by the Gates Foundation to eliminate lymphatic filariasis. In
addition, our own faculty worked in more than 40 countries in every part of the world. Our
faculty and students are also involved in public health activities within the State of Georgia,
including the Fulton and DeKalb County Health Departments.
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Achieve Fiscal Stability:
We have moved towards excellence by taking advantage of opportunities made possible by the
support of our central university administration and the Health Sciences Center, drawing from a
very rich environment for public health and other incremental changes within the limits of our
resources. Additional recent endowment gifts have improved our capacity to recruit new faculty
members. During the year, 2000-01, the endowment of the RSPH increased by $8.58 million,
bringing the total endowment to nearly $18 million. We completed our sixth straight year with a
(small) surplus in revenue.
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APPENDIX X.B.2
Self-Assessment Steering Committee Members
Rollins School of Public Health
CEPH Accreditation 2004
Jay Bernhardt, Ph.D., MPH - Assistant Professor
Department of Behavioral Sciences, Rollins School of Public Health
1518 Clifton Road, N.E. #524, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
(404) 712-8425
jbernha@sph.emory.edu
Darren Collins - Director
Center for Public Health Preparedness, DeKalb County Board of Health
455 Winn Way, P.O. Box 987, Decatur, Georgia 30031
(404) 508-7997
dfcollins@gdph.state.ga.us
Steven D. Culler, Ph.D. - Associate Professor
Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health
1518 Clifton Road, N.E. #622, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
(404) 727-3170
sculler@sph.emory.edu
Ranita Fortenberry - MPH Candidate, 1st Year Student Representative
Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health
1518 Clifton Road, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30322
rforten@sph.emory.edu
Allan Goldman - Assistant to Director
Department of Human Resources, Division of Aging Services
2 Peachtree Street - 9th Floor, Atlanta, Georgia 30303
(404) 657-5254
ABGoldman@dhr.state.ga.us
Amri Johnson, MPH - Rollins School of Public Health Alumni Association President
236 Forsyth Street, Suite 302, Atlanta, Georgia 30303
(404) 752-7194, (404) 230-9900
amri@wellsolve.com
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Rollins School of Public Health
CEPH Accreditation 2004
Deborah L. Jones - CDC Visiting Scholar in Faith-Health Leadership
Emory Interfaith Health Program, International Health, Rollins School of Public Health,
1256 Briarcliff Rd NE, Bldg A, Suite 107, Atlanta, GA 30306
404-727-3013 (Direct Line); 404-727-5246 (Main Line)
404-727-5261 (Fax)
Emory E-mail: djones9@sph.emory.edu CDC E-mail: dlj1@cdc.gov
Lydia Kwee - Ph.D. Candidate, Student Representative
Department of Biostatistics, Rollins School Public Health
1518 Clifton Road N.E. #359, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
(404) 727-8210
lkwee@sph.emory.edu
Richard A. Lasco, PHD
Director, Office of Training and Workforce Development
Department of Human Resources, Division of Public Health
2 Peachtree Street, Suite 15-470, Atlanta, GA 30333
404-657-2857
ralasco@dhr.state.ga.us
Michael J. Lynn, M.S. - Senior Associate
Department of Biostatistics, Rollins School of Public Health
1518 Clifton Road, NE #342, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
(404) 727-7695
mlynn@sph.emory.edu
Glen F. Maberly, MD - Professor
Department of International Health, Rollins School of Public Health
1518 Clifton Road, NE #720, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
(404) 727- 4553
gmaberl@sph.emory.edu
Suzanne Mason - Assistant Director of Administrative Programs
Department of International Health, Rollins School of Public Health
1518 Clifton Road, N.E. # 770, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
(404) 727-0263
smason@sph.emory.edu
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Self-Assessment Steering Committee Members, cont’d
Rollins School of Public Health
CEPH Accreditation 2004
John McGowan, MD - Professor
Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health
1518 Clifton Road, N.E. #442, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
(404) 727-9365
jmcgowa@sph.emory.edu
Christine Moe, Ph.D. - Associate Professor
Department of International Health, Rollins School of Public Health
1518 Clifton Road, N.E. #760, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
(404) 727-9257
clmoe@sph.emory.edu
Nancy Paris, MS - Vice President
Georgia Cancer Coalition
50 Hurt Plaza, Suite 910, Atlanta, Georgia 30303
(404) 588-4083
nparis@georgiacancer.org
Iris Smith, Ph.D., MPH - Clinical Associate Professor
Director, Career Master of Public Health Program, Rollins School of Public Health
1525 Clifton Road, N.E. #104, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
(404) 727-2925
ismith@sph.emory.edu
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APPENDIX X.B.2
Self-Assessment Working Group Members
Rollins School of Public Health
CEPH Accreditation 2004
Working Group Members
Richard M. Levinson, Ph.D.
Executive Associate Dean, Academic Affairs
1518 Clifton Road N.E. #830, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
(404) 727-7703
rlevins@sph.emory.edu
Kathleen R. Miner, Ph.D., MPH
Associate Dean for Applied Public Health
1518 Clifton Road N.E. #814, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
(404) 727-8745
kminer@sph.emory.edu
P. Dean Surbey, MA, MBA
Associate Dean, Administration and Finance
1518 Clifton Road N.E. #832, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
(404) 727-3023
psurbey@sph.emory.edu
JoNell (Jody) Usher, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean for Student Affairs
1518 Clifton Road N.E. #164, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
(404) 727-9331
jusher@sph.emory.edu
Roseanne Waters
Program Director, Health Policy and Management
1518 Clifton Road N.E. #626, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
(404) 712-8524
rwater2@sph.emory.edu
Vanda Hudson
Office Manager, Dean’s Office
1518 Clifton Road N.E. #823A, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
(404) 712-8378
vhudso2@sph.emory.edu
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Lori Mogren
Research Project Coordinator, Sr., Office of Applied Public Health
1518 Clifton Road N.E. #812, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
(404) 727-3943
lmogren@sph.emory.edu
Tammie Starks
Administrative Assistant, Academic Affairs Dean’s Office
1518 Clifton Road N.E. #828, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
(404) 712-9680
tstarks@sph.emory.edu
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