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.