The Rollins School of Public Health
James W. Curran, MD, MPH, Dean
The Rollins School of Public Health has 866 master’s degree students and 104 PhD students who choose from degree options in behavioral sciences and health education, biostatistics, epidemiology, environmental and occupational health, health policy and management, and global health.
A leader in interdisciplinary studies, the school offers dual-degree programs with medicine, nursing, health professions, business, and law. Master’s degrees also are available with a concentration in clinical research. The Career MPH is a distance-learning program for mid-career professionals who wish to pursue a degree while employed.
In fiscal year 2009, the school received $60 million in research funding, supporting efforts in cancer epidemiology, nutrition, environmental and occupational health, HIV/AIDS education and prevention, addictive behaviors, youth violence, antibiotic resistance, diabetes and obesity, and allocation of health resources.
Many of the 165 regular and 404 adjunct faculty members in six academic departments are linked by appointments, shared programs, or research grants with the CDC, Carter Center, American Cancer Society, CARE, Arthritis Foundation, Task Force for Global Health, and state and local public health agencies. Through these partnerships and in its role as a center for international health research and training, the school helps make Atlanta the public health capital of the world. The school is ranked seventh among peer institutions by U.S. News & World Report. It has 4,936 alumni.
