Kimberly Arriola, PhD, MPH

Biography

Kimberly Jacob Arriola, PhD, MPH, is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences, and serves as executive associate dean for academic affairs in the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University. Dr. Arriola also serves as dean of Laney Graduate School and is part of the Emory University Office of the Provost leadership team as vice provost for graduate affairs. She is a member of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University.

Education

Dr. Arriola earned an MA and a PhD from Northeastern University, both in social psychology, and she earned an MPH in epidemiology from Emory University.

Titles & Roles

• Charles Howard Candler Professor of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences

  Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
• Dean

  Laney Graduate School, Emory University
• Vice Provost for Graduate Affairs

  Emory University

Research

All of Dr. Arriola's work focuses on improving the health of marginalized populations and communities of color. For example, for the past 9 years she has served as principal investigator of an NIH-funded project that seeks to develop and test a culturally-sensitive organ and tissue donation intervention for African American adults. Additionally, she has served as co-investigator for two national multi-site studies that seek to evaluate new services for HIV-infected jail and prison inmates transitioning from the facility to the community. Dr. Arriola also teaches Research Methods to master's students and Health Promotion Interventions to doctoral students in her department.

Grants

Publications

Dr. Arriola has published numerous journal articles and co-edited a book on the health of incarcerated women.

Awards

Dr. Arriola is a recipient of the 2014 Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award.