Predictive Health Minor
The Predictive Health curriculum engages students in a paradigm shift in our understanding of health and challenges facing health care.
The Predictive Health Minor offers students a portfolio of courses covering the emerging science of health, refocusing the scholarly and professional attention given to disease and illness associated with medicine to an evidence-based academic focus on health and wellness. As data accumulate documenting how our behaviors influence and are influenced by fundamental biological processes, the predictive health curriculum details new understandings of causal mechanisms that underlie the continuum of health.
The 21-credit hour curriculum includes courses emphasizing novel research discoveries, developments in science and technology, the nature of prediction, and the emerging science of the developmental origins of health. Changing paradigms in health care call attention to the importance of self-empowerment and integrative approaches to mental and physical health and well-being.
The faculty include research scientists from across the university, bringing innovation and cutting-edge discoveries on topics ranging from the immune system, brain health, mental wellness and climate together with leaders in public health, law, health economics and policy. Social scientists and ethicists join the conversation as we focus on the human experience of health and consider the importance of health narratives as they shape public understanding of health.
The Predictive Health minor enriches educational depth and breadth for all pre-health students and offers important perspectives for students who aspire to further training not only in medicine and the allied health professions, public health, nutrition, and psychology, but also those who aspire to work in health economics, law, policy, and business.
Our students gain the foundation to meet a range of academic and professional goals and have pursued a variety of post-graduate positions in:
- Public Health
- Health and Medical Business Enterprises
- Health and Wellness Operations
- Clinical Environments
- Health Policy and Law
- Healthcare Consulting
- Bioethics
- Health Education and Promotion
Led By Distinguished Faculty
Cecilia Bellcrosse, PhD, MS
CGC ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
DIRECTOR, EMORY GENETIC COUNSELING TRAINING PROGRAM
Dr. Bellcrosse introduces the field of genetic screening and public health genomics.
DAN BENARDOT, PHD, RD, FACSM
PROFESSOR OF PRACTICE
Dr. Benardot illustrates the fundamentals of nutrition and with-in day energy balance for body composition for performance and health.
Lauren Christiansen-Lindquist, PhD, MPH
RESEARCH ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DIRECTOR OF MPH & MSPH PROGRAMS, ROLLINS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Dr. Christiansen-Lindquist teaches basic epidemiology and analytic tools for predicting health.
Gari Clifford, DPhil
CHAIR & PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS, EMORY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
PROFESSOR, BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Dr. Clifford shows how the application of signal processing and machine learning is used to classify, track, and predict health and illness.
Carlos del Rio, MD
EXECUTIVE ASSOCIATE DEAN, EMORY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND GRADY HEALTH SYSTEM
DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE
PROFESSOR, HUBERT DEPARTMENT OF GLOBAL HEALTH, ROLLINS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Dr. del Rio shares his predictive health expertise regarding global threats from infectious disease emergence through the steps of diagnostics, drug development and public action.
Christina Gavegnano, PhD
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, EMORY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Dr. Gavegnano inspires students with her work on inflammation and viral pathogenesis, and successful drug discovery to improve health for HIV and Covid patients.
Julie Gazmararian PhD, MPH
PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, ROLLINS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Dr. Gazmararian shares with students challenges in contemporary issues in health communication and literacy.
David Guidot, MD
PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE, EMORY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Dr. Guidot is a pulmonologist who focuses on predicting chronic insults such as alcohol abuse, oxidative stress and susceptibility to chronic disease.
Madeleine Hackney, PhD
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE, CENTER FOR HEALTH IN AGING
Dr. Hackney illustrates the importance of novel therapeutics using tango dance techniques aimed to enhance physical function and quality of life as we age.
Myra Woodworth-Hobbs, PhD
SENIOR LECTURER
Dr. Woodworth-Hobbs introduces students to the importance of nutrition for cellular function and the bases this provides for health.