Rollins School of Public Health
Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health is one of five organizations that have joined to form the University Global Alliance Program (UGAP).
The initiative, launched March 2 by the Northrop Grumman Corporation, aims to unite higher education and the private sector to accelerate the application of thought leadership to global public health informatics, policy development, strategic planning, programmatic implementation and evaluation.
In addition to Emory, the UGAP alliance includes The Satcher Leadership Institute of the Morehouse School of Medicine, Georgia State University, the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Colorado School of Public Health. The universities were chosen for their innovative research in public health and their interest in advancing public health practice through applied technology and informatics.
Members of the UGAP will participate in Northrop Grumman contract work, coordinate research projects, share information and best practices, develop curricula, author joint case studies/white papers and benefit from learning opportunities within the public health community.
Northrop Grumman has been in the health information technology domain for more than 20 years. The UGAP partnership will utilize the corporation’s Public Health Research and Demonstration Center in Atlanta, a state-of-the-art public health technology research and development facility.
Through the lab, Northrop Grumman develops technology to support strategic public health initiatives, including disease surveillance such as H1N1, health data analysis and visualization, modeling and simulation of disease and climate effects, and collaboration across the global health community.
