2. To read about Campaign Emory and its role in the University’s future, see page 2.
C R E AT E T H E F U T U R E
of
PUBLIC HEALTH
The Rollins School of Public Health is leading the world toward
better health. In classrooms and across the globe, Rollins faculty, students, and
alumni are designing programs to help eliminate deadly and disabling diseases and
creating innovative methods of prevention through research.
Whether they are providing solutions for the more than one billion people who lack
safe water, identifying procedures that will detect and prevent cancer, developing
innovative HIV/AIDS prevention strategies, combating the global diabetes epidemic,
or tackling bioterrorism or health care
reform, Rollins faculty are at the forefront
of today’s most pressing health issues.
Campaign Emory provides you with the
opportunity to change the world by
investing in RSPH faculty and students who
are committed to promoting health and
preventing disease.
An ideal location, generous philanthropic support, and thoughtful stewardship of
resources have propelled the RSPH into the upper echelon of public health schools.
Paired with the Grace Crum Rollins Building, the new Claudia Nance Rollins
Building will be a major component of continued success. The new building—funded
by a lead gift from the O. Wayne Rollins Foundation and Grace Crum Rollins—has
created momentum that can be sustained only by continued investment in people
and programs.
The RSPH’s goal to become one of the top five schools of public health in the world
will require strategic investments in faculty, scholarships, and space. To compete
with the world’s leading schools of public health, Rollins has set a goal of reaching a
minimum of $100 million in endowment by 2012. This endowment will help recruit
and retain outstanding faculty and double scholarship support for Rollins students
from the United States and throughout the world. Through this growth, the RSPH
will continue to enhance the stature of Emory University.
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Gifts to endow faculty chairs will be instrumental in attracting and retaining high-
caliber research and teaching faculty. Your gift may translate into field research in
sub-Saharan Africa or a cancer breakthrough in the laboratory. It may be a key factor
in improving access to safe water, eliminating birth defects, early detection of breast
cancer, decreasing maternal deaths, minimizing health disparities, or preventing
teenagers from acquiring HIV.
Public health students have compassion and commitment. They embrace challenges
and seek skills to make a difference. Scholarship support will ensure that the brightest
students have access to an Emory education. Your support may be the critical factor
in an outstanding student’s decision to pursue a career in public health.
Continuing the momentum the RSPH is experiencing requires visionary supporters
who will join the quest to protect humankind’s most valuable asset—good health.
Your support of the RSPH during Campaign Emory will sustain excellence in
research, innovation in education, and commitment to protecting lives worldwide.
Your gift helps Emoryto be an international leader at the forefront of public health success.
n ENDOWED CHAIRS AND PROFESSORSHIPS | The success of an academic enterprise is
built upon the strength of its faculty. Increasing resources to recruit and retain outstanding
faculty remains the highest priority. Dedicated endowment will attract eminent senior
faculty, as well as establish endowed junior positions for tomorrow’s leading researchers.
n SCHOLARSHIPS | A strong commitment to current and future students through increased
scholarships will allow more students to graduate with a Rollins School of Public Health
degree. Increasing endowed scholarships will enable the school to compete with the world’s
leading schools of public health for outstanding students, reduce student debt, and make
the field of public health accessible to truly dedicated applicants.
n DEPARTMENTS AND CENTERS | The RSPH comprises six departments, each with
opportunities for investing in research, fellowships, doctoral programs, and disease-specific
programs. These gifts increase the ability to secure research grants, train outstanding
professionals from throughout the world, and target public health threats.
n CLAUDIA NANCE ROLLINS BUILDING | At 190,000 square feet, the Claudia Nance
Rollins Building is designed to foster interdisciplinary interaction and intellectual
stimulation. In conjunction with the Grace Crum Rollins Building, it will accelerate
teaching and collaborative research in key areas, including global health, predictive health,
infectious disease, and chronic diseases.
n ANNUAL FUND | Ongoing annual gifts to the Rollins School of Public Health Annual
Fund provide unrestricted support for scholarships. Because they are pooled with many
gifts from dedicated alumni and friends, annual gifts have great impact.
rollins school of public health goal: $150 million
priorities
C A M P A i G N E M O RY
Campaign Emory is building momentum at a university brimming with vitality,
imagination, collaboration, and service. The campaign goal of $1.6 billion
will allow Emory and its partners in Atlanta and around the globe to address
enduring challenges. The people whose stories you’re about to read exemplify
the themes of the campaign—strengthening faculty distinction, preparing
engaged scholars, creating community and engaging society, confronting
the human condition and experience, and exploring new frontiers in science
and technology. The priorities in this publication support each of these themes.
Your gift—whether you give annually, include the Rollins School of Public Health
in your estate plans, or create an endowment—will have tremendous impact.
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C O U R A G E T O
PROTECT
n Strengthening Faculty Distinction
since its founding in 1990, the rollins school of public health
has established itself as a center for multidisciplinary teaching and research. Rollins’
distinguished faculty lead the world in fighting disease and improving global health.
Before joining the RSPH in 2001, Keith
Klugman led a successful vaccine trial to pre-
vent childhood pneumonia. The trial included
nearly 40,000 children in Soweto, South
Africa. The vaccine now routinely is used in
the 18 richest countries in the world, but
access is still limited in developing countries,
where infectious pneumonia is the No. 1 killer
of children.
Klugman’s research has shown that the pneu-
moccocal vaccine can decrease virus-associated
pneumonia in children. More than 2 million
children under age 5 die of pneumonia each
year worldwide, primarily due to lack of detec-
tion. Detection of infectious diseases is key to
identifying their susceptibility to antibiotics
and is essential to developing strategies for
treatment and prevention.
To address a severe lack of laboratory capacity
for detection of disease in developing coun-
tries, Klugman is working with the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. State
Department, and the American Society for
Microbiology. Together they are helping six
African countries use funds for HIV programs
to build laboratories for the detection of tuber-
culosis and pneumonia, which have increased
greatly due to HIV.
Klugman was named the William H. Foege
Chair of Global Health in 2005. Establishing
endowed chairs to recruit and retain interna-
tional leaders in public health research leads
to successes in addressing the world’s most
challenging health threats.
As director of the Joseph W. Blount Fund for Global
Health and Society at the RSPH, Sandra Thurman helps
equip leaders in the public health and private sectors
to respond to the challenges of reducing the burden
of disease on vulnerable populations and in resource-
poor settings, particularly in the developing world.
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C O U R A G E T O
ACT
n Preparing Engaged Scholars
the rollins school of public health prepares students to make
a difference. Rollins students see the problems that occur when resources are not
available to produce healthy and informed communities. They are attracted to
Rollins by the promise of hands-on experience and the opportunity to be part of
a community of engaged scholars working together to create solutions.
Olivia Ramirez grew up in New York City, no
stranger to the plight of urban children. But
nothing prepared her for working with chil-
dren in the Govandi slum of Mumbai, India,
in the summer of 2006. She spent her days in
a health clinic in Govandi surveying children
who worked every day in the city dump. These
children rummaged through piles of trash,
amid smoke from burning rubbish, collecting
material to sell to recycling industries.
Ramirez performed daily lung function tests
on 50 children between 9 and 14 years old and
discovered more breathing problems, including
asthma, in these children than among Mumbai
schoolchildren who were not slum dwellers.
Based on her findings, Ramirez recommended
a respiratory health program including moni-
toring and teaching slum children to protect
themselves while in the waste site.
Your investment in the Rollins School of Public
Health will provide more scholarships and
offer outstanding students opportunities to do
life-changing work in developing countries.
As president of the student chapter of Universities
Allied for Essential Medicines, Stephanie Doan
08MPH helped create a panel of faculty and
administrators charged by President James
Wagner to develop a global access strategy. The
goal was to ensure that people in developing
countries benefit from medicines and innovations
developed at Emory. The panel’s guidelines for
technology transfer are now Emory policy.
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C O U R A G E T O
PREVENT
n Creating Community and Engaging Society
the rollins school of public health stretches well beyond the
classroom. Faculty, staff, and students take pride in activism that influences public
health policy, global health issues, human rights, sustainability, and the environment.
Christine Moe has devoted herself to prevent-
ing disease and death caused by the substance
necessary to maintain life: water.
As Eugene J. Gangarosa Professor of Safe
Water and director of the Emory Center for
Global Safe Water at the RSPH, Moe spear-
heads the center’s mission to improve access to
safe water and adequate sanitation in develop-
ing countries. One of her projects—an
innovative program in Bolivia to develop low-
cost sanitation models, generate demand for
sanitation in local communities through social
marketing, and establish small businesses to
provide improved sanitation services—won
the 2006 World Bank Development
Marketplace Global Competition. The grant
program funds innovative, small-scale devel-
opment projects that deliver results and show
potential to be expanded or replicated.
Moe’s research is critical. Almost half of the
world’s population—2.4 billion people—lack
safe water. Of those, up to 3 million die each
year, including 6,000 children each day, as a
result of inadequate sanitation, insufficient
hygiene, and contaminated food and water.
Moe says public health leaders must give
greater attention to proper methods for dis-
posal of human waste. “It’s a matter of health,
but also a matter of human dignity.”
Your gift will support infrastructure and edu-
cational programs in developing countries for
safe water and sanitation, fund collaborative
research in disease prevention, and attract
scholars who will find creative solutions to
worldwide health challenges.
Benjamin Druss, the Rosalynn Carter Chair of
Mental Health, believes physical health and
mental health are inextricable. His goal is to
improve delivery of care between the two systems
by creating models for incorporating mental
health care into primary care settings.
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C O U R A G E T O
EMPOWER
n Confronting the Human Condition and Experience
at the rollins school of public health’s hubert department of
Global Health, the mission is clear—to understand and reduce global inequities in
health and well-being through teaching, multidisciplinary research, and service with
the ultimate goal of identifying and reducing barriers to health and wellness.
During medical training in his native
Cameroon, Landry Tsague had an epiphany as
he was assessing the efficacy and safety of a
drug to treat lymphatic filariasis—a disfigur-
ing, disabling disease infecting more than 120
million of the world’s poorest people. He
could either continue to treat individuals as a
clinician or turn to public health and possibly
influence the health of millions.
Tsague chose the needs of the many and
became Cameroon’s national coordinator of
the Program for the Prevention of Mother to
Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV. A
William H. Foege Fellow, Tsague won awards
for his research on how to improve PMTCT
effectiveness by reinforcing connections
between prevention and treatment programs.
Today he’s in Rwanda, training others in HIV
testing and counseling to meet the growing
need for professionals who can reach remote
areas in desperate need of HIV intervention.
Your investment helps RSPH students per-
form research that will allow millions of
children to grow into healthy adults.
Postdoctoral fellows Cheng Huang, Solveig
Argenseanu, and Mohammed K. Ali work with RSPH
epidemiologist Venkat Narayan in the Global Diabetes
Research Center on prevention and treatment of the
disease. Among other research, Cheng is working on
a project in China exploring nutrition in pregnancy
and infancy and its impact on late childhood health.
Argenseanu focuses on social determinants of child
health in the United States and developing countries
and whether environment can protect against
childhood obesity. Ali, a Rhodes Scholar, is designing
a trial to evaluate diabetes care in India.
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C O U R A G E T O
DISCOVER
n Exploring New Frontiers in Science and Technology
the mission of the rollins school of public health is to protect
humankind’s most valuable asset—the health of individuals, families, and people all
over the world. Through research, technology, and analysis, RSPH faculty are find-
ing answers to the world’s most pressing health problems.
Epidemiologist Robin Bostick is working to
develop a simple panel of tests, including a
blood test like the one used to check choles-
terol, to detect colon cancer risk before the
disease occurs. In the future, the test could
potentially be developed to predict other forms
of cancer.
Formerly a clinical physician, Bostick became
so interested in research on the possible effects
of diet, calcium, and vitamin D on colon
cancer risk that he closed his medical practice
to pursue a research career. A Georgia Cancer
Coalition scholar at the RSPH, he has identi-
fied proteins and a number of other biomarkers
that predict colon cancer. His research shows
that some of these indicators can be modified
in as little as six months with supplemental
calcium and vitamin D.
Bostick’s tests could help prevent colon cancer
through treatments and lifestyle changes and
could reduce the rate of colon cancer. Using
quantum dot technology, Bostick is creating
software that automatically scans slides to
measure the presence and quantity of bio-
markers in mucosal tissue. If proven to be
accurate, these diagnostic methods would
reach many more people at risk for cancer.
Your support will help the RSPH recruit,
retain, and provide program support for pub-
lic health scientists who push the forefront of
discovery, providing new understanding of
and new ways to prevent and detect devastat-
ing health problems.
The new Center for Biomedical Imaging Statistics is
combining high-tech imaging and statistical methods
to build understanding of disease and improve
treatment. Director DuBois Bowman and his team
analyze imaging data at CBIS to address major public
health concerns such as mental illness, neurological
disease, heart disease, and cancer.
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C O U R A G E T O
GIVE
n Transforming the World Together: the Power of Private Investment
since the rollins school of public health was established,
philanthropy has played a pivotal role in building the school’s strengths. Through
the support philanthropy provides, RSPH faculty, staff, and students can make a
true difference in improving world health.
From the inscription of the Rollins name on
Emory University buildings to the influence of
the family’s generosity on the public health com-
munity, the legacy of the Rollins family is
intertwined with the success of the Rollins
School of Public Health.
As an Emory trustee, O. Wayne Rollins saw his
support of the School of Public Health as a way
to improve the lives of people around the world.
Rollins and his wife, Grace Crum Rollins,
passed on the tradition of giving to their sons,
Randall and Gary, and to their many grandchil-
dren and great-grandchildren.
After O. Wayne Rollins’ death in 1991, the
Rollins family funded construction of the Grace
Crum Rollins Building in 1995 and continued
his legacy of philanthropy through endowment
gifts to the school. In 2007 the family under-
scored its commitment to the school by pledging
the lead gift to begin construction of the Claudia
Nance Rollins Building, named for O. Wayne
Rollins’ mother.
Through the dedication of the Rollins family to
public health, the school has become an interna-
tional leader of public health education and
research. To continue advancing public health
worldwide, your gifts will create new teaching
and learning spaces, increase scholarships, and
establish endowed chairs. All are needed to
maintain momentum, to recruit internationally
prominent faculty, to attract the next generation
of public health leaders, and to create, enhance,
and house programs of excellence.
By becoming a partner with the Rollins School
of Public Health, you are investing in improved
health and the prevention of disease and disabil-
ity around the world.
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Claudia Nance Rollins Building
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G I V I N G O P P O R T U N I T I E S
U N R E S T R I C T E D E N D O W M E N T
O. Wayne and Grace Crum Rollins Endowment any amount
Dean’s Fund for Excellence $ 1 million
E N D O W E D C H A I R S A N D P R O F E S S O R S H I P S
Endowed faculty or department chairs $ 2 million – $3 million
Endowed junior faculty professorship $ 1 million
S C H O L A R S H I P S
Endowed full-tuition scholarship $500,000
Endowed stipends for doctoral students $100,000
Endowed scholarship fund $100,000
Endowed global field experience fund $100,000
Term scholarships ($5,000 per year for at least five years) $ 25,000+
Adopt-a-Scholar program ($2,500 per year for four years) $ 10,000+
D E P A R T M E N T S A N D C E N T E R S
Named departments $10 million
Named centers $ 5 million
C L A U D I A N A N C E R O L L I N S B U I L D I N G
Glass atrium/main entrance $ 1 million
Auditorium $ 1 million
Premier meeting and reception space (9th floor) $ 1 million
Glass bridge and skywalk lounge $500,000
Atlanta skyline terrace $300,000
Courtyard terrace $150,000
Dean’s suite (conference room, reception area, office) $500,000
Dean’s conference room $200,000
Wet laboratories (safe water, toxicology, teaching) $500,000 – $1 million
Student services suite $500,000
Resource conference rooms $100,000
Department lobby (reception and seating) $100,000
Case study tiered classroom $500,000
Three classrooms (25-50 seats each) $100,000 – 250,000
Computer laboratories $200,000 – 300,000
Group study rooms $ 25,000 – 50,000
Faculty offices $ 10,000 – 50,000
A N N U A L G I F T S
RSPH alumni scholarship fund any amount
Named scholarship funds any amount
Global Field Experience fund any amount
Dean’s Council scholarship fund any amount
Center annual funds any amount
Department annual funds any amount
Credits
Writers Maria Lameiras, Kathryn Graves
Designer Heather Putnam
Lead photographer Kay Hinton
Contributing photographers Ann Borden, Jon Rou, Bryan Meltz,
Jack Kearse, Annemarie Poyo, Jennet Arcara 06MPH, Chris H. Megerian 08C,
Sarah Rohrer, Thomas Rippe, The S/L/A/M Collaborative
C O N T A C T S
D e v e l o p m e n t a n d a l u m n i r e l a t i o n s
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