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Jodie Guest, PhD, MPH
Emory University
GA, United States
Dr. Jodie Guest is a Professor and Senior Vice Chair in the Department of Epidemiology at Rollins School of Public Health, where she also directs the Emory Farmworker Project and the Science Communication Certificate Program. She serves as Co-Director of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center’s Office of Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice and is Emory University’s 2025 Research Impact Fellow. A highly recognized educator and public health leader, Dr. Guest has received multiple awards, including Rollins School of Public Health Professor of the Year (2020, 2022), the Emory School of Medicine Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion Award (2019), and Emory’s MLK Award for Community Service (2021) for her COVID-19 response efforts across Georgia. She was honored as the 2023 Rollins Distinguished Alumni and received the 2024 Society for Epidemiologic Research Kenneth Rothman Career Achievement Award. In 2025, she was named Emory’s inaugural Voice for Health Award recipient for her leadership in science communication and Georgia’s Rural Health Care Champion of the Year for her work with the Emory Farmworker Project. Dr. Guest’s research focuses on HIV care within racial, sexual, and gender minority populations, COVID-19, emergency preparedness, and science communication. She leads the Emory Farmworker Project, providing essential healthcare to South Georgia farmworkers. A prominent voice in public health, she hosted Emory’s weekly COVID-19 Facebook Live updates and served as the Mayor of Atlanta’s MPOX Advisor. She also played a critical role in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, acting as COVID Czar in 2021 and 2022 and now serving as its Public Health Director. Her dedication to education, research, and community-based public health continues to drive meaningful impact at Emory and beyond.

Presenting at CAB 2025:

IPE-ACTS: Teaching Health Professional Students IPEC Core Competencies Through an Applied Team-based Health Challenge Competition
IPE-ACTS is Emory’s interprofessional education program for students in the schools of nursing, medicine, and public health. IPE-ACTS allows students to focus on an issue impacting the health of Atlanta and work together using IPEC Core Competencies to create a novel approach to improve the health of vulnerable Atlanta communities.
Health Professional Student Perceptions of Interprofessional Learning at the Emory Farmworker Project, a Community Based Interprofessional Education Program
The Emory Farmworker Project (EFP) is an interprofessional service-learning program at Emory University where health professional students provide care to migrant farmworkers in the fields. PA and MD students participated in focus groups about the interprofessional nature of EFP and the impact of community-based, practical IPE on their clinical learning.
Health Professional Student Perceptions of Interprofessional Learning at the Emory Farmworker Project, a Community Based Interprofessional Education Program
Despite the rise in interprofessional education (IPE) and collaborative practice, opportunities for true IPE are limited in traditional didactics and rotations. The Emory Farmworker Project provides a model for community-based IPE programs to create a unique, high yield learning environment to foster collaboration and co-learning for health professional students.