Author Archives: Emory University

The numbers are stark. Women in Georgia are nearly twice as likely to die during pregnancy or within one year of the end of pregnancy than the national rate, and Black women in the state are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white women. This issue was the basis of conversation at an event […]

Emory University is embarking on a new initiative that will unite the power of machine learning and big data to transform the ways in which health care systems prevent, diagnose, treat and cure diseases on a global scale. Launching this month under the umbrella of Emory’s AI.Humanity initiative, the Emory Empathetic AI for Health Institute will utilize […]

A team of researchers from Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health has been awarded a $3.8M grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish a center to study the impacts of climate change on health and help develop action-oriented strategies to protect the health of individuals and communities.  Emory was one of the first […]

The Arts and Social Justice (ASJ) Fellows Program enters its fourth year of programming, welcoming seven Atlanta-based artists to classes across the university this fall. The cohort of artists includes Antonio David Lyons, Adán Bean, Bird Harris, Kelly Taylor Mitchell, Meredith Gordon, Nia Jackson and W.J. Lofton. With the support of Emory University’s Office of […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $9.2 million to Emory University to support the expansion of the National Organization of Research Development Professionals (NORDP) Consultants Program, which is dedicated to diversifying the U.S. research ecosystem. The NORDP Consultants Program provides research development services to minority-serving institutions (MSIs), including historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), and […]

The pathological brain changes that afflict sufferers of Alzheimer’s disease are notoriously difficult to detect before visible symptoms show up. That’s because brain tissue is relatively inaccessible to scientific study, making it hard to fully understand the slowly developing biological processes in seemingly healthy people that eventually emerge as Alzheimer’s disease decades later.  Recently, though, […]

By Susan M. Carini In the four-plus years that Spencer Roberts has headed the staff responsible for digital initiatives and technologies at Emory’s Pitts Theology Library, he has explored all pathways open to an academic librarian: not only does he support library staff and Candler School of Theology faculty, he also pursues his own research agenda. Previous digital scholarship projects […]

President Joe Biden has announced that a new federal agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has selected Emory University as the inaugural recipient of funding to support transformative breakthroughs in health research.    The three-year, $24.8 million cooperative agreement from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) will drive the development of a cutting-edge […]

From Georgia to Maine and points in between, Emory University environmental scientist Debjani Sihi got her hands dirty this summer in an effort to see how soil might help battle climate change. As a biogeochemist, Sihi is leading multiple projects to learn how soil can trap or emit carbon and other greenhouse gases in locations […]

To address an emerging issue in health care delivery, researchers from Emory University’s School of Medicine and Georgia Institute of Technology are exploring how artificial intelligence (AI) can offer a way to increase efficiency of diagnoses and treatment.   During the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of telemedicine and electronic health record (EHR) messaging rapidly increased. […]

“At Emory, we have a tagline: There is no ‘away’ when you flush away. Just like there’s no ‘away’ when you throw away — you’re throwing away or flushing away into communities that are already overburdened,” says Ciannat Howett, Emory University’s chief climate change officer and associate vice president of resilience, sustainability and economic inclusion.  […]

Structural racism and geographic inequity are advancing the global crisis of diabetes, leaving people with diabetes 50% more likely to develop cardiovascular disease and twice as likely to die compared to those without diabetes, especially among minority populations. A narrative literature review recently published in Lancet, led by Saria Hassan, MD, assistant professor at Emory University […]

Five universities, including Emory, have signed a joint Memorandum of Understanding that lays the foundation for a new global collaboration network focused on education, research, leadership and innovation.  The partners are Emory University (U.S.), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel), the University of Bonn (Germany), the University of St Andrews (U.K.) and Waseda University (Japan). […]

The nation’s leading experts in pediatric health, including the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), have named the mental health crisis among children a national emergency. Shortages of qualified mental health professionals are at crisis levels locally, statewide, nationally, and globally. This shortage disproportionately affects the pediatric and adolescent populations, and this crisis is compounded for children […]

Emory University School of Law student Bene Owanga, a native of the Democratic Republic of Congo, recognized an exasperating energy crisis and a dire need for electricity in his country. To combat the lack of electricity, Owanga and his family created a climate tech company that rents out portable solar-powered batteries to consumers.   The Democratic […]

Is it possible to enlist artificial intelligence (AI) ethically, equitably and in the service of justice?  And what is the role of the humanities in this pursuit? The Mellon Foundation has awarded $1.3 million to Emory and partners at Clark Atlanta University, Georgia Institute of Technology and the DataedX Group to explore these questions through the creation of the […]

All year, Emory faculty research and develop groundbreaking technologies with the potential to help millions around the world. When those technologies are patented, licensed and commercialized, it’s cause for celebration. Emory’s Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) honors the school’s innovators with its Annual Celebration of Technology and Innovation. This year’s 17th Annual Celebration included winners […]

It’s staggering to think back on how recently women and their hearts began to be taken seriously by the scientific community. As legendary Emory cardiologist Nanette Wenger, MD, wrote in a 2016 American College of Cardiology article: “Although heart disease is the number one killer of women, cardiovascular disease was really thought of as a […]

As COVID-19 continues to evolve and impact the lives of people around the world, the need for additional effective treatment options continues to be at the forefront of global efforts to combat the disease. Emory University has entered into an agreement with Pfizer Inc. to advance research that may serve to help address this need […]

The Mellon Foundation has awarded Emory University a multi-year, $526,000 grant to develop a new center to advance civic engagement and democratic participation through interdisciplinary humanistic research, experiential education and partnerships between Emory and Georgia-based organizations in and around Atlanta.  The Imagining Democracy Lab will be led by historian Carol Anderson, the Charles Howard Candler […]