Kimberly Jacob Arriola, PhD, MPH

Kimberly Jacob Arriola is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Behavioral, Social and Health Education Sciences in the Rollins School of Public Health (RSPH) at Emory University. She also serves as Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at RSPH. After graduating from Spelman College in 1994, she earned an MA in 1996 and PhD in 1998, both in Social Psychology, from Northeastern University. She earned an MPH in Epidemiology in 2001 from RSPH.

As the Executive Associate Dean, she serves to steward the academic mission of the school, including ensuring the integrity of the curriculum, helping to lead the re-accreditation process, supporting faculty professional development and overseeing faculty governance processes. For the past 20 years, Kimberly’s research has focused on social and behavioral factors that impact the health of African Americans. She has led the development, implementation and evaluation of culturally sensitive interventions to improve public commitment to organ and tissue donation among African Americans as well as multi-level interventions that address racial disparities in access to renal transplantation. In addition, she conducts research to study the role of race-related stress in chronic kidney disease progression among African Americans.

Kimberly will share closing remarks with the attendees of the inaugural Rollins Innovation Summit on Day 10.

Good Measure Meals cooks delicious, nutritionally-balanced meals from scratch in Atlanta, and is a social enterprise of Open Hand Atlanta, the largest community-based home-delivered meal provider in the Southeast. Open Hand provides medically-appropriate meals and nutrition education every day to thousands of those who are either too sick to cook for themselves, disabled, elderly and/or home-bound. Good Measure Meals supports this mission with 100% of its net proceeds, creating a financially sustainable revenue stream to fuel Open Hand's non-profit work in the community.

Learn more:
https://www.goodmeasuremeals.com/
https://openhandatlanta.org/

Good Measure Meals cooks delicious, nutritionally-balanced meals from scratch in Atlanta, and is a social enterprise of Open Hand Atlanta, the largest community-based home-delivered meal provider in the Southeast. Open Hand provides medically-appropriate meals and nutrition education every day to thousands of those who are either too sick to cook for themselves, disabled, elderly and/or home-bound. Good Measure Meals supports this mission with 100% of its net proceeds, creating a financially sustainable revenue stream to fuel Open Hand's non-profit work in the community.

Learn more:
https://www.goodmeasuremeals.com/
https://openhandatlanta.org/

Good Measure Meals cooks delicious, nutritionally-balanced meals from scratch in Atlanta, and is a social enterprise of Open Hand Atlanta, the largest community-based home-delivered meal provider in the Southeast. Open Hand provides medically-appropriate meals and nutrition education every day to thousands of those who are either too sick to cook for themselves, disabled, elderly and/or home-bound. Good Measure Meals supports this mission with 100% of its net proceeds, creating a financially sustainable revenue stream to fuel Open Hand's non-profit work in the community.

Learn more:
https://www.goodmeasuremeals.com/
https://openhandatlanta.org/

Rachel Hall-Clifford, PhD, MPH, MSc.

Rachel Hall-Clifford is Assistant Professor in the Center for the Study of Human Health and the Department of Sociology at Emory University. She is a medical anthropologist who applies social science approaches to global health research and implementation. Rachel has conducted fieldwork in the central highlands of Guatemala on the delivery of health services for 15 years. Her research areas include accessible healthcare for marginalized populations, health systems strengthening in post-genocide contexts and global health fieldwork ethics. She has held medical anthropology research positions at Oxford University, Harvard University, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Rachel is Director of the NAPA-OT Field School in Guatemala. She is Co-Founder of safe+natal and the Emory Co-Design Lab for Health Equity.

Gari Clifford, DPhil

Gari Clifford is a tenured Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics (BMI) at Emory. His research applies signal processing and machine learning to medicine to classify, track and predict health and illness. His focus research areas include critical care, digital psychiatry, global health, mHealth, neuroinformatics and perinatal health. After training in Theoretical Physics, he transitioned to AI and engineering for his doctorate at the University of Oxford in the 1990s. He subsequently joined MIT as a postdoctoral fellow, then Principal Research Scientist where he managed the creation of the MIMIC II database, the largest open-access critical care database in the world. He later returned to Oxford as an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, where he helped found its Sleep & Circadian Neuroscience Institute and served as Director of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Healthcare Innovation at the Oxford Institute of Biomedical Engineering. Gari is a strong supporter of commercial translation, working closely with industry as an advisor to multiple companies, co-founding and serving as CTO of an MIT spin-out ‘MindChild Medical’ since 2009, and co-founding and serving as CSO for Lifebell AI in 2000. As Chair of BMI, Gari has established the department as a leading center for critical care and mHealth informatics, and as a champion for open-access data and open-source software in medicine, particularly through his leadership of the PhysioNet/CinC Challenges and contributions to the PhysioNet Resource. He is committed to developing sustainable solutions to healthcare problems in resource poor locations, with much of his work focused in Guatemala. He is Co-Founder of safe+natal and the Emory Co-Design Lab for Health Equity.

During the summit, Rachel and Gari will lead attendees in an applied global health session, focusing on co-design, which is the linchpin to program sustainability in a global setting, and landscape analysis – needs assessments/asset analysis within communities.

Good Measure Meals cooks delicious, nutritionally-balanced meals from scratch in Atlanta, and is a social enterprise of Open Hand Atlanta, the largest community-based home-delivered meal provider in the Southeast. Open Hand provides medically-appropriate meals and nutrition education every day to thousands of those who are either too sick to cook for themselves, disabled, elderly and/or home-bound. Good Measure Meals supports this mission with 100% of its net proceeds, creating a financially sustainable revenue stream to fuel Open Hand's non-profit work in the community.

Learn more:
https://www.goodmeasuremeals.com/
https://openhandatlanta.org/

Tommy Pearce, MSW

Mission-driven organizations should have access to actionable insights to inform their decisions – our communities depend on it. As Executive Director of Neighborhood Nexus, Tommy Pearce is working to do just that. By continuously deepening its understanding of how leaders make decisions, maintaining relationships with state data sources and delivering accessible data tools to the public, the Nexus team is building a culture of data-informed decision-making among Georgia’s social sector. 

With a background in social work and human services – teaching ESL at a refugee resettlement agency, conducting shelter intake and street outreach at a homeless services agency – Tommy gained insights into the lived experience of our most vulnerable community members and the structural barriers they face. To address these issues at a systemic level, he shifted his focus to organizational capacity building to strengthen the organizations serving our communities. Prior to joining Neighborhood Nexus, Tommy was a strategic planning and market research consultant for the Georgia Center for Nonprofits, working with hundreds of nonprofits and boards across the state to maximize their impact with data. 

Neighborhood Nexus is achieving its mission with three main programs: Creating open-access data infrastructure like Data Nexus for anyone to find and visualize community data for free, capacity building and training programs for nonprofit professionals, and consulting for organizations in need of custom tools and data partners. 

Tommy has a Master of Social Work from University of Pittsburgh and a History degree from Georgia Southern University. He’s a lifelong Gwinnetian, where he currently resides with his wife, two daughters and stacks of books he will never finish.  

Tommy will present on Neighborhood Nexus’ collaborative efforts to pull data for real-time insights.

Good Measure Meals cooks delicious, nutritionally-balanced meals from scratch in Atlanta, and is a social enterprise of Open Hand Atlanta, the largest community-based home-delivered meal provider in the Southeast. Open Hand provides medically-appropriate meals and nutrition education every day to thousands of those who are either too sick to cook for themselves, disabled, elderly and/or home-bound. Good Measure Meals supports this mission with 100% of its net proceeds, creating a financially sustainable revenue stream to fuel Open Hand's non-profit work in the community.

Learn more:
https://www.goodmeasuremeals.com/
https://openhandatlanta.org/

Shannon Clute, PhD, MA

Shannon Clute’s career has been evenly divided between academia and industry, and, in both sectors, he has worked at the crossroads of innovation, brand strategy, media and instructional design to launch numerous scalable edutainment initiatives that aim to drive broad engagement while serving a greater good. In 2005, he and Dr. Richard Edwards launched Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir—the first film analysis podcast and among the first academic podcasts—which went on to be featured on iTunes, broadcast on Australian Radio National and downloaded 1.5M times. He also created a series of four innovative multimedia edutainment courses at Turner Classic, which enrolled more than 70,000 learners and drove more than 300M organic Twitter impressions.

Shannon has held numerous positions in industry, including Director, Business Development and Strategy at Turner Classic Movies, where he was tasked with building a cross-functional and collaborative culture of innovation to foster creativity and entrepreneurship in response to market disruption. Before his time at Turner, Shannon was Assistant Professor of French and Italian language and literature at Saint Mary’s College of California, and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky, where he taught courses in French and Italian language and literature.

Shannon holds a BA in Italian from the University of Colorado Boulder, and MA and PhD degrees in Romance Studies from Cornell University.

Summit attendees will be passionate about their public health innovation pilot. They will know the impact it could have and where it might lead. However, how can they transfer that to their colleagues back at their organization? Shannon Clute, Director of The Hatchery, Emory Center for Innovation, will lead attendees in learning how to socialize their pilot so it doesn’t end with just a plan.

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Good Measure Meals cooks delicious, nutritionally-balanced meals from scratch in Atlanta, and is a social enterprise of Open Hand Atlanta, the largest community-based home-delivered meal provider in the Southeast. Open Hand provides medically-appropriate meals and nutrition education every day to thousands of those who are either too sick to cook for themselves, disabled, elderly and/or home-bound. Good Measure Meals supports this mission with 100% of its net proceeds, creating a financially sustainable revenue stream to fuel Open Hand's non-profit work in the community.

Learn more:
https://www.goodmeasuremeals.com/
https://openhandatlanta.org/