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D E A N ' S M E S S A G E ...........................................................................................................
This fall we had more than 1,000 applications from people wanting to study at the Rollins School of Public Health. Unfortunately, we were unable to accept all of those intelligent and highly motivated canidates. But those students who were chosen come from around the world and across this country, representing some 43 countries and 43 states in the United States. They represent the best of diversity, not only in geography but also by age, interests, and goals.
While these students are impressive as a group, they are equally accomplished individuals. Sue St. Clair, for instance, a recent graduate of the MN/MPH program, set up a new paradigm to promote mental health in Africa. Corliss Heath organized an afterschool program for inner city children. Marisa Rogers, who wants to enhance her medical training at Emory with an understanding of public health, regularly volunteers in a clinic for the homeless in Atlanta. Matthew Nims is taking his Peace Corps experience to Guatemala to help improve sanitation in the war-ravaged communities of the Mayans. You'll read about some of these students in this special issue - about those who studied at a new international training site in Antigua, Guatemala, about those who've come from abroad to learn what our school has to teach, about others who have taken on the perspective of a new discipline by exchanging places with other students for a year. We'd like to tell all of their stories, but even in the few represented here, you'll see how the school continues to train graduates that can carry the message of health from Atlanta, a publich health capital throughout this country and the world, to the wide world.
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Like a proud father
with a wallet of photographs, let me do a bit of
bragging. Our students do excellent academic work, winning admission to honor societies and
writing theses and dissertations that launch them into careers as our future leaders in
public health. They regularly capture the highly selective
humanitarian awards at Emory University as well as awards within our school and in the
larger public health arena. They want to make the world healthier, and they're not waiting
for graduation to begin that process. While still in school, they are taking their research
projects to Southeast Asia, Africa, Central America, and communities in the United States.