Office of Academic Affairs
The Office of Academic Affairs and Executive Associate Dean Richard Levinson oversees the Office of Student Services which includes Admissions and Recruitment, Registrar and Career Services. It is responsible for the school's curriculum, staffing the school's standing Curriculum Committee, made up of the assistant directors of academic programs and one faculty member from each department. It organizes the preparation for accreditation of its academic program, prepares the annual report, reviews all course evaluations and works with chairs to maintain the quality of instruction, monitors and prepares reports related to the student exit questionnaire, convenes the Academic Standards Committee and assures that Ad Hoc Honor Code committees are formed to deal with issues of academic conduct. Finally, it is responsible for overseeing faculty recruitment, appointments, promotions and tenure, as guided by the school's nine-member Appointments, Promotion and Tenure Committee.
Richard M. Levinson, Ph.D.
Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Charles Howard Candler Professor of Public Health
Adjunct Professor: Department of Sociology
BA, University of Connecticut (1964)
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1975)
Richard Levinson is a medical sociologist with an interest in social factors affecting the utilization of, and access to, health services. He has published on gender roles and health, the attribution of dangerousness and civil psychiatric commitment, social and cultural factors influencing utilization of health services and other topics with support for research from the National Institutes of Health (NIMH, NHLBI, NICHD), CDC and several foundations.
As a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow, he served on the staff of the US House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee. He also served as Chief, Behavioral Epidemiology and Evaluation Branch at CDC and Chair, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education in the Rollins School of Public Health. He is currently the editor of Social Theory and Health.
Teaching in the school of public health, undergraduate college and graduate school of arts and sciences, he has received several teaching awards (Danforth Foundation, RSPH Professor of the Year, Department of Sociology Outstanding Teacher and Emory Crystal Apple Award) and in 1993 he received the Emory University Scholar-Teacher Award.
For additonal information, please contact:
Melissa Sherrer, M.Ed
Academic Specialist
404-712-9680
msherre@emory.edu