Building Our Endowment

Building Rollins' endowment to support the school's faculty and students remains our top priority.

Endowments are essentials to the vitality and financial security of our school and ensure the long-term sustainibility of our mession to impact health and well-being through excellence in teaching, research, and the application of knowledge locally and globally.

  • Endowed scholoarships ensure that cost doesn't deny top students the benefit of a Rollins education. 
  • Endowed faculty positions enable Rollins to continue to attract and retain the most talented and accomplished faculty
  • And endowed funds earmakred for cutting-edge research at Rollins enable our world class faculty, researchers, and students to address the most pressing anf crucial public health needs of today and tomorrow

Unrestricted endowment funds allow the dean to respond to priority needs and opportunities. In recent years, unrestricted funding has helped support more than half of the school's department chairs and many assistant professors. Likewise, by dedicating a small perecentage of unrestricted endowment income to match scholoarship gifts, Rollins has established more than than 30 new endowed student scholarship funds.

Your endowment gifts are an investment in impact. You enable Rollins recruit and retain the strongest faculty, support innovations in research, practice, and teaching, and train the next generation of public health leaders.

Create or Contribute to an Endowment Fund 

Donors like you help make it possible for us to educate and train tomorrow's public health leaders, enable faculty to make new ideas a reality, and empower our researchers to solve the most challenging public health issues. Whether choosing to create your own endowment or contribute to an existing fund, wherever your passions for building a healthier more equitable world lie, your support helps make this possible.

To learn more, please contact Kathryn Graves, senior associate dean for advancement and alumni engagement at (404) 727-3352 or kathryn.graves@emory.edu or Michelle James, senior director alumni engagement at (404) 727-4740 or michelle.james@emory.edu

Mary Anne Lanier

“I believe so strongly in the value of educating women and girls in developing countries. When you do that, the standard of living increases for everyone. I would like this endowed scholarship fund to benefit students who want to work in this area.”
- Mary Anne Lanier