Annual Meeting and Expo, American Public Health Association

APHA’s 2023 Annual Meeting and Expo is the premier public health event of the year offering innovative and exciting opportunities to help you reach your personal and professional goals. Engage with public health experts, collaborate with other advocates, and grow professionally from November 9-15, 2023.

Creating the Healthiest Nation: Overcoming Social and Ethical Challenges

We must build public health capacity and address the social and ethical challenges that threaten our nation’s health. With a stronger public health infrastructure, we can expand essential prevention and health promotion efforts at the community, state and federal levels to tackle threats from communicable diseases like COVID-19 and mpox, substance misuse, climate change and health disparities.

Join APHA this November as we come together to overcome these threats to well-being and work to achieve a healthier nation. 

For more information and to register, please click here. 

National First Gen Week Kick-Off Lunch, Emory First

The National First Gen Week Kick-Off Lunch will take place today, 11/6 from 12 to 2pm. It will be the first event for First Gen Week, where lunch will be provided for Emory FGLI students. This event will also be a great way for students to network and meet students form different backgrounds but the same FGLI experience. For more information and to RSVP, please click here. 

BSHES Peer to Peer Mentoring, RGSA Student Organization Fair

BSHES Peer to Peer Mentoring Program is inviting you to join us on the CNR Skybridge, Tuesday, October 31^st, 12pm-2pm for a RSGA student organization fair.

We are partnering with a few RSGA student organizations to share information, treats, and an opportunity to earn a LEAD Point by completing a bingo card!

Come by and see us in between classes. We would love to capture some pictures with you. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact BSHES Peer to Peer Mentoring program graduate assistants, Brianna Harper or Conjay Dahn.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Modeling Public Health

Keynote Address & Luncheon, Diversity Week

Dissent from Hopelessness: Taking a Stand from Wherever You Sit

October 2, 2023 – 12pm

RRR – Margaret Rollins room

Traevena Byrd has served as Vice President, General Counsel and Board Secretary for American University in Washington, DC since 2018. She is a member of the President’s cabinet and chief legal advisor to the university’s executive officers and Board of Trustees. Traevena oversees the provision of legal services for the university, corporate governance, and board operations. She has previously worked as Vice President and General Counsel at Towson University in Maryland; as Title IX coordinator, EEO investigator, adjunct faculty member, and associate general counsel at Ithaca College in New York; and as Director of the Commission on the Status of African Americans for the State of Iowa.

For more information and to register, please click here. 

SDOH Panel – Conquering Drug and Alcohol Addiction: A Dialogue with Women in Greatest Need

Join us for a dialogue with potential, current and alumni clients of BreakThru House

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5TH 4:00-5:30 PM

RRR 800 Food will be provided

Learn directly from women struggling with drug addiction about challenges they faced when seeking care, during care and after treatment

For more information and to register, please click here.

Research Symposium, Morningside Center for Innovative and Affordable Medicine

Please join the Morningside Center for Innovative and Affordable Medicine to learn more about current research related to improving medical outcomes using repurposed drugs and nutraceuticals, especially in the area of cancer. This year’s symposium will feature many top physicians and researchers in their field who will share updates on their projects supported by the Morningside Center (clinical and pre-clinical). A networking reception will follow the symposium.

Date: 10/25/2023, 3:00-5:30 pm (Reception to follow)

Location: Winship Cancer Institute, John H. Kauffman Auditorium (Room C5012, 5^th Floor)

Please register for the symposium here: 

For more information, please contact Krista Charen (Krista [dot] Charen [at] emory [dot] edu) or Greeshma Kombara (greeshma [dot] girish [dot] kombara [at] emory [dot] edu), or click here. 

Diversity of Desserts, Diversity Week Event

In celebration of National Diversity Week, the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion will host Diversity of Desserts at Wonderful Wednesdays. 

Join us as we celebrate the diverse richness of the Emory community. Stop by to explore sweet treats from around the world.

October 4, 2023 – 12-2pm

For more information and to register, please click here.

Diversity Week Workshop: Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation

This interactive session is designed to introduce the Emory University community the historical and foundational framework of the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Initiative. Participants will have the opportunity to understand the implementation process of this framework with their respective diversity, equity, and inclusion activities.

October 3, 2023 – 11am

Goizueta Business School, Room 500 (East Wing)

For more information and to register, please click here.

Dispatches from the AIDS Pandemic — Discussion and Book Signing

Twenty-five years ago this month Dr. James W (Jim) Curran – Emeritus Dean of the Rollins School of Public Health and founding PI of the Emory Center for AIDS Research – green lighted, and funded!, the formation of the Vaccine Dinner Club.  The rest, as they say, is history.

Before that signal event though, while he was still at the CDC, Dr. Curran led the initial investigation of the disease later known as AIDS.   You may be familiar with the Hollywood story of that investigation, and what came after it, from the book / movie “And the Band Played On.”    

It was a good book and an engaging movie but those of us who lived those events in real time have spent the ensuing decades asking Dr. Curran and the other front-line insiders to write a book that tells the story from THEIR perspective.   And they finally have.  Yay!

So please authors Kevin M. DeCock, Harold W. Jaffe, and Jim Curran for a discussion and book signing of “Dispatches from the AIDS Pandemic: A Public Health Story,” —  their unique firsthand account of the CDC’s early response to AIDS.

Drawing in part on interviews from the CDC’s AIDS oral history project, the book traces the evolution of AIDS from newly recognized disease to pandemic.

Tuesday, September 25 

4pm: Discussion and Q&A

5pm: Book Signing

Margaret H. Rollins Room – Randall R Rollins Building

Register to attend at www.engage.emory.edu/dispatches