AIDS International Training Initiative and Research Program (AITRP)
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In 1998, Emory was awarded an AIDS International Training and Research Program (AITRP) award from the Fogarty International Center/National Institutes of Health. AITRP brings exceptional investigators from Ethiopia, Rwanda, Zambia, Mexico, Georgia, Armenia, and Vietnam (all nations in which Emory investigators have ongoing AIDS research activities) to Emory for training in HIV/AIDS prevention science. Fellows benefit from the outstanding opportunities for interdisciplinary training offered by Emory’s Schools of Public Health and Medicine, the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, and the neighboring Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).


American Research Center in Egypt
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Emory University is the U.S. office of The American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE), a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1948 by a consortium of educational and cultural institutions to support research on Egyptian history and culture, foster broader knowledge about Egypt among the general public, and promote and strengthen American-Egyptian cultural ties.


Asian Studies Program
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The Asian Studies Program is one of seven area studies programs administered by the Institute of Comparative and International Studies. It introduces students and the community to leading scholarship on Asia through courses, seminars, exhibitions, and lectures. The program offers an interdisciplinary major and minor in Asian Studies, Asian language courses, internship opportunities, and study abroad programs in exciting locations in Asia. The program draws on the expertise of faculty members from departments across campus, including anthropology, economics, film studies, history, journalism, literature, music, philosophy, political science, and religion.


Atlanta-Tbilisi Healthcare Partnership
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Established in 1992, the Atlanta-Tbilisi Healthcare Partnership contributes expertise, personnel, medical literature, and supplies to the Caucusus nation of Georgia, whose healthcare and medical education systems have been devastated by civil war and economic crises since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The Partnership is a collaborative effort between institutions in Georgia and their Atlanta counterparts, including the Emory Schools of Medicine, Rollins School of Public Health and Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Georgia State University, Morehouse School of Medicine, Grady Memorial Hospital and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Major activities of the last ten years include the opening of a National Information Learning Center in Tbilisi, which gives Georgian doctors access to the world’s biomedical databases, student and faculty exchanges, medical and nursing education curriculum reform, the opening of a Women’s Wellness and Primary Care Center, emergency medical training, AIDS and tuberculosis research, and the opening of the first modern pediatric emergency room in any post-Soviet country.


The Carter Center
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Founded in 1982 by former U.S. President, Nobel Laureate, and Emory faculty member Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, The Carter Center works in partnership with Emory to improve the quality of life for people in more than 65 countries. The Center’s staff wage peace, fight disease, and build hope by both engaging with those at the highest level of government and working side by side with poor and often forgotten people. The Center has strengthened democracies in Asia, Latin America, and Africa; helped farmers double or triple grain production in 15 African countries; mediated or worked to prevent unnecessary diseases in Latin America and Africa, and striven to diminish the stigma of mental illness.


Center for Ethics
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The John and Susan Wieland Center for Ethics exists to enrich moral
imagination, to deepen knowledge of ethics, and to encourage lives of moral
meaning and ethical practice. The Center for Ethics is committed to being a
national leader, recognized for excellence in ethical research, education
and outreach by: Strengthening ethical knowledge & stimulating moral imaginations; generating and promoting original scholarship in ethics; translating ethical thought into practice; and fostering lives of moral meaning and ethical engagement.


Center for Global Safe Water
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More than one billion people around the world lack access to safe water and 2.4 billion lack adequate sanitation services. Housed in the Rollins School of Public Health, the Center for Global Safe Water draws talent and support for global water safety from across Emory University and government and private organizations. With a mission to improve access to safe drinking water globally, the center is the focal point for faculty experts in global health, environmental health, and infectious diseases and the umbrella for collaborative projects under way around the world.


The Center for Health, Culture, and Society
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Founded in 1993 to encourage interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to problems of public health importance, The Center for Health, Culture, and Society is a meeting ground for social and health scientists, humanists, and health professionals at Emory. It strives to achieve a closer integration of academic scholarship and health intervention activities and to develop a global perspective on health that bridges the divide between domestic and international health issues.


Center for International Living
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The Center for International Living (CIL) is a residential center at the Clairmont Campus where U.S. and international students live together in a distinct block of apartments and get to know one another through daily interaction and participating in international activities. CIL sponsors events throughout the year including lectures, discussions, film presentations, field trips, and informal receptions with distinguished scholars and visitors.


Center for International Programs Abroad
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The Center for International Programs Abroad (CIPA) is Emory College’s study abroad office. CIPA programs provide Emory students with varied academic encounters and diverse experiences in over 30 countries around the world. Its services support students and faculty before, during, and after the study abroad experience in order to ensure that study abroad is an essential part of an Emory College education.


Center for Russian and East European Studies
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The Center for Russian and East European Studies (REES) seeks to broaden knowledge about the former USSR and Eastern Europe through multi- and inter-disciplinary programming for the Emory academic community, teachers and faculty at other educational institutions, and the general public. It is one of seven area studies programs administered by the Institute for Comparative and International Studies and also offers graduate certificates for students in law, public health, and business.


Center for the Study of Law and Religion
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The Center for the Study of Law and Religion (CSLR), housed in the Emory Law School, explores the interaction of legal and religious ideas, institutions, and methods. CSLR offers a variety of advanced courses and clinics, projects and publications, colloquia and conferences. Its work is interreligious in inspiration, with emphasis on the traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It is interdisciplinary in perspective, seeking to bring the wisdom of religious traditions into greater conversation with law, public policy, and the humane and social sciences. And it is international in orientation, seeking to situate American debates over interdisciplinary religious issues within an emerging global conversation. The program has encompassed more than a dozen domestic and international research projects, including those on women and land rights in Africa, Islamic family law, and an Islam and Human Rights Fellowship program, which hosted several scholar-activists from Islamic nations advocating for social change.


Center for the Study of Public Scholarship
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The Center for the Study of Public Scholarship (CSPS) promotes and examines scholarly work that crosses the boundary between the academy and the public. Since 2000, it has hosted Institutions of Public Culture (IPC), funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, a collaborative program that links Emory with higher education, arts and culture organizations in South Africa through fellowships, internships, workshops, and seminars. IPC has helped professionalize the staff of several South African museums and brought dozens of southern African scholars, journalists and curators to Emory.


Claus M. Halle Institute for Global Learning
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The Claus M. Halle Institute for Global Learning is Emory’s premier venue for visits by heads of state, distinguished policymakers and influential public intellectuals from around the world. The Institute’s Distinguished Fellows and Speaker Series programs bring visitors into face-to-face dialogue with the Emory and Atlanta community through a host of events. The Program on Governance provides a forum for research and expert meetings on important issues related to governance, and the Study Trip Program has taken over one hundred faculty members on intensive learning trips to Germany and India.


Department of French and Italian
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The Department of French and Italian offers a wide range of language, literature, and culture courses at the undergraduate level. Its graduate program includes studies in French literature and thought from the medieval period to the present day, in Francophone literature, and in applied linguistics.


Department of German Studies
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The Department of German Studies offers a major and minor degree in German Studies. Students may choose from a rich selection of classes with special focus on language proficiency, literature, culture, history, music and business. Class offerings also include German Film and Yiddish language and literature.


Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures
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The department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures (REALC) administers majors in Russian, Chinese, and Japanese and offers courses in the languages and cultures of Russia, China, and Japan. Coursework includes study abroad opportunities, internships, and an array of multi- and inter-disciplinary listings.


Department of Spanish and Portuguese
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The Spanish and Portuguese Department offers an undergraduate major and minor in Spanish, an undergraduate minor in Portuguese, and a PhD program in Spanish. Along with several study abroad opportunities, the Department sponsors a Spanish House for students to live in a Spanish-speaking environment and engage in departmental and Spanish cultural activities.


East Asian Studies Program
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The East Asian Studies Program is one of seven area studies programs administered by the Institute for Comparative and International Studies. The program promotes and coordinates events and activities related to China, Japan, Korea and broader East Asia. Associated faculty include specialists in anthropology, literature, philosophy, politics, religion, history, and music. Together with the South Asian Studies Program, the East Asian Studies Program supports an undergraduate degree in Asian Studies.


Emory Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)
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The Emory Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) is a UNAIDS Collaborating Center and one of 21 National Institutes of Health-funded centers in the U.S. CFAR fosters collaborative, interdisciplinary research among HIV investigators in Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health, School of Medicine, the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, the Emory Vaccine Center, and Emory College.

The search for an HIV vaccine is a priority area. The Emory Vaccine Research Center is the only university-based vaccine research center in the U.S. to have an AIDS vaccine candidate in clinical trials. The trivalent DNA vaccine has been developed to protect against the three HIV subtypes predominant in North America and Europe, west Africa, and southern Africa and India. The overall goal is to have a vaccine that will be effective for worldwide use.


Emory Center for the Advancement of International Transfusion Safety

Housed in the Transfusion Medicine Program at Emory’s School of Medicine, the Emory Center for the Advancement of Transfusion Safety brings physicians from Kenya and Tanzania to Emory for 6-month stints to study blood transfusion methods. In 2004, the School of Medicine, the American Red Cross, and the American Association of Blood Banks received a $12.5 million technical support grant from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to work to improve blood transfusion services in several developing nations over a period of five years. Assessment teams have visited South Africa, Mozambique, Kenya, and Guyana to survey blood collection and transfusion services.


Emory College Language Center
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Languages taught at Emory include: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Sanskrit, and Spanish. The Emory College Language Center supports these activities and encourages innovation in language pedagogy by providing faculty with opportunities for professional development and enhances the effectiveness of language learning and teaching through the integration of language pedagogy and technology.


Emory Development Institute

For students interested in the development field, the Emory Development Institute (EDI) offers specially designed courses and sponsors fieldtrips and research. With a focus on the promotion of health, citizenship, institution building, and economic development in low-income countries, EDI works in partnership with faculty and units across the university, and with partner organizations in government, business, and the field of sustainable development. Key partners include the Atlanta-based organizations CARE, The Carter Center, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and eStandards Forum, which promotes transparency, accountability, institutional infrastructure, and human capacity building so that private and public sector investment in low-income countries will be more effective.


Emory Global Health Institute
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Established in September 2006, the Emory Global Health Institute is a university-wide initiative that addresses critical health challenges around the world, with an emphasis on those that disproportionately affect vulnerable populations in poor countries. The Emory Global Health Institute supports Emory faculty and their partners on innovative global health research studies and programs, supports faculty growth around global health issues, convenes members of the global health community to develop new leaders and share information regarding effective programs and projects, and supports global health training and scholarship opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. The Emory Global Health Institute builds on Emory University's long history of highly successful global health partnerships with neighboring institutions such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CARE, The Task Force for Child Survival and Development, and the Carter Center.

Emory-Tibet Partnership
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The Emory-Tibet Partnership supports a range of projects across the University that bring together the best of the Tibetan wisdom and Western academic traditions. Established in 1998 when His Holiness the Dalai Lama visited Emory, the Partnership links Emory to the famed Drepung Loseling Monastery in India and to the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in Dharamsala, India, the seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile. Activities include studies into improving health through Tibetan Buddhist meditation, projects in performing arts and religion, the annual Tibet Week, courses taught by distinguished visiting Tibetan scholars, and one of Emory’s most unique study abroad opportunities, which each spring sends Emory students to Dharamsala to study Tibetan language, philosophy, culture, and civilization.


Emory Vaccine Center
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At the Emory Vaccine Center, investigators are searching for vaccines against some of the world’s most devastating infectious diseases, such as HIV/AIDS and malaria. It is the only university-based vaccine research center in the U.S. to have an AIDS vaccine candidate in clinical trials. The trivalent DNA vaccine has been developed to protect against the three HIV subtypes predominant in North America and Europe, West Africa, and southern Africa and India. The overall goal is to have a vaccine that will be effective for worldwide use. The Vaccine Center’s Malaria Research Program is internationally recognized for its discovery of several malaria vaccine candidates and for their research into the complex molecular makeup of the parasite that causes the disease, which kills over one million people – most of them children in Africa – every year.


Global Environmental Health Program
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Housed in the Rollins School of Public Health, the Global Health Program is a collaborative effort between the departments of Global Health and Environmental Health and offers the masters of public health degree. It is one of only a few programs in the US that formally links the environment with international studies in a degree program. It was designed in recognition of the fact that increasingly, the world’s most serious environmental problems are found in developing nations. The program prepares future public health leaders to tackle environmental health in developing nations. Students in the Global Health Program receive field experience in Kenya with Emory’s Center for Global Safe Water.


Hubert Department of Global Health
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Nationally one of the fastest growing departments of global health, The Hubert Department of Global Health in the Rollins School of Public Health seeks to reduce health inequities through teaching, research, and social action, with an emphasis on the developing world. Located in Atlanta, often called “the public health capital of the world,” and in close proximity to the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), The Carter Center, the American Cancer Society, and CARE, one of the world’s largest international aid organizations, the department is a destination for students from more than 50 countries. Four competitive international fellowship programs for mid-level career professionals from developing nations – future public health leaders in their countries – enhance the diversity of the student body. The department coordinates or is linked with a number of global health initiatives, and faculty members are conducting research around the globe.


Institute for Comparative and International Studies
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The Institute for Comparative and International Studies (ICIS) enhances international education and scholarship within the arts and sciences at Emory University. ICIS administers and facilitates various dimensions of international studies at Emory College, including seven academic area studies programs that pertain to different parts of the world, a wide array of study abroad opportunities for students, international research and travel support for faculty and students, the language center of Emory College, and outreach initiatives in the Atlanta international community.

See also:
Institute of African Studies / Asian Studies / Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Center for Russian and East European Studies / Middle East and South Asian Studies / Irish Studies / East Asian Studies / Center for International Programs Abroad / Emory College Language Center


Institute for Developing Nations
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The Institute for Developing Nations (IDN) promotes research that addresses issues related to understanding and alleviating the underlying causes of poverty in the developing world. By bringing together the academic resources of a major research university, the experience of prominent and respected development NGOs such as The Carter Center and CARE, and strategic partnerships with scholars, policy makers, and research institutes in the developing world, IDN is uniquely positioned to engage in fundamental theoretical and methodological innovation that will enrich existing practice and establish new modalities of practice. IDN’s mission is to promote research that will lead to improvements in the lives of those living in poverty, foster related initiatives that will build capacity in developing countries, develop scholarship on and teaching about poverty and development in ways that emphasize local understandings of both problems and solutions, and work toward re-imagining and then advocating implementation of development practice in ways that have not yet been anticipated.


Institute for the Study of Modern Israel

Institute of African Studies
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The Institute of African Studies (IAS) is one of seven area studies programs administered by the Institute of Comparative and International Studies. IAS promotes interdisciplinary teaching and research on Africa, administers an undergraduate major and minor, and coordinates graduate training in African Studies at Emory. The Institute also runs an on-going seminar in African studies, hosts visiting scholars and regularly sponsors events.

The Institute of Human Rights (IHR) at Emory seeks to advance the cause of
human rights through educational, research and community awareness programs in parallel with the mission of the university. IHR engages representatives of governmental and non-governmental institutions as well as scholars and practitioners in dialogue about the use of rights based approaches. It offers an interdisciplinary graduate certificate in human rights open to graduate students across the university and supports faculty pursuing human rights related research. Community awareness programs include sponsorship of an annual campus wide Human Rights Week. In addition, the Atlanta Asylum Network provides pro bono physical and psychological evaluations to torture survivors for use in their asylum cases.


International Student and Scholar Programs
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International Student and Scholar Programs (ISSP) is responsible for the development, coordination, and administration of services and programs designed to assist international students and scholars. The ISSP staff is professionally trained to offer advising and programs about immigration and financial concerns, and academic counseling to help students and scholars understand and deal effectively with the U.S. academic system and university requirements. Staff members are available for discussion and counseling about personal matters, such as adjusting to a new culture, problems with friendships, family, roommates; cross-cultural misunderstandings; feelings of sadness, anger, and fear; concerns about returning home; and making life changes and choices. Crisis counseling and intervention are offered when students and scholars find their countries torn by war, natural disasters, or economic crisis.


Irish Studies
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The Irish Studies program, one of seven area studies programs administered by the Institute for Comparative and International Studies, draws on Emory’s long-established teaching and research strengths in Irish arts and literature, as well as Woodruff Library’s Special Collections, which houses one of the world’s finest collections of twentieth-century Irish literary materials.


Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
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The Program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) is one of seven area studies programs administered by the Institute for Comparative and International Studies. LACS is designed to promote a multidisciplinary understanding of the culture, history, and contemporary issues of the region. It offers a flexible undergraduate major and minor and a Graduate Student Forum that includes dissertation reading groups, lectures and seminars.


Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing
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Housed in Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, The Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing (LCCIN) embodies the school’s commitment to the global advancement of health through nursing. LCCIN works to strengthen the global capacity of nurses worldwide through nursing education, research, consultation, and technical assistance in many countries around the world. As secretariat for the Global Government Chief Nursing Officers Network, LCCIN works closely with governmental chief medical and nursing officers in more than 80 countries and is committed to the ongoing development of nurses in senior government leadership roles.


Luce Korean Initiative

Funded by a grant from The Henry Luce Foundation, the Luce Korean Initiative at the Candler School of Theology supports scholarships to Korean and Korean American students, opportunities for Candler students to work with Korean communities in Atlanta, study abroad and internship opportunities in Korea, and enhances English language instruction and support services for Candler’s Korean students, which make up 7% of the student body.


Michael C. Carlos Museum
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The collections of the Michael C. Carlos Museum span the globe and the centuries. Housed in a distinguished building by renowned architect Michael Graves, the Carlos maintains the largest collection of ancient art in the Southeast with objects from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Near East, and the ancient Americas. Until recently this collection included a mummy now believed to be that of 13th century pharaoh Ramesses I, which Emory returned to Egypt as an international gesture of goodwill and cultural cooperation. The Museum is also home to collections of nineteenth- and twentieth-century sub-Saharan African art and European and American works on paper from the Renaissance to the present day. The Carlos Museum works with Emory faculty members to develop unique special exhibitions that draw on collections from around the world to engage the public and contribute to current scholarship.


Middle East and South Asian Studies
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The Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies (MESAS) is dedicated to research and teaching about the Middle East and South Asia as an integral cultural area. Its scholars focus on historical, cultural, religious, archaeological and linguistic continuities from the beginnings of recorded history through the Islamic period to the present day. Geographically covering the areas from the West Mediterranean to the Bay of Bengal, the Department offers language, literature and cultural programs centered on Arabic, Hindi, Hebrew, Persian and Sanskrit, and explores those cultures in their home locations and their diasporas. Future plans will expand these areas to include Telugu, Turkish and Urdu. The Department also is the home for the newly established Arabic Media Center at Emory University, an analyzable database resource of Arabic electronic and print media for scholarly research and journalistic training. Through its teaching, research and outreach, MESAS serves as a resource of information, education and programming for the Emory community and the wider public.


Office of International Affairs
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Under the direction of the Vice Provost for International Affairs the Office of International Affairs (OIA) coordinates, facilitates and supports international activities and strategic planning development and implementation across Emory University. As Emory’s international diplomatic front office, OIA organizes VIP delegations, builds relationships with individuals, institutions and transnational communities of strategic importance, and handles international public relations for the University. OIA is also the administrative home to two interdisciplinary, University-wide institutes: The Claus M. Halle Institute for Global Learning and The Institute of Human Rights at Emory.


Pitts Theology Library
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Pitts Theology Library is a distinguished collection of theological materials. With over 520,000 volumes, the library provides unusually rich resources for the Candler School of Theology and Emory University and has attracted international attention for some of its collections. The Pitts Library subscribes to more than 1,500 periodicals, with special strength in titles from sub-Saharan Africa.


Program Against Micronutrient Malnutrition
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The Program Against Micronutrient Malnutrition (PAMM) is dedicated to supporting countries in their attempts to eliminate vitamin and mineral deficiencies. A large number of faculty and staff at the Rollins School of Public Health, the Task Force for Child Survival and Development and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) work in cooperation with public-private and civic organizations that share this global goal.


The Rabbi Donald A. Tam Institute for Jewish Studies
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Emory's Rabbi Donald A. Tam Institute for Jewish Studies brings together scholars and students from a number of different departments and programs to engage in the interdisciplinary exploration of Jewish civilization and culture. Fifteen distinguished core faculty members offer courses in Jewish religion and thought, history, archaeology, anthropology, language, literature, politics, and philosophy. Particular strengths of the program include the rabbinic tradition, Jewish law and ethics, contemporary Jewish theology, American Jewish studies, the Holocaust, Hebrew language and literature, and the study of modern Israel. The Institute awards an undergraduate major and minor as well as a Master of Arts in Jewish Studies (JSMA).


Robert W. Woodruff Library
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The Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL), housed within the Robert W. Woodruff Library, contains one of the world’s finest collections of twentieth-century Irish literary materials. Begun in 1979 with the acquisition of archival material documenting the life and work of W.B. Yeats, the Irish collections have over the years expanded to include papers relating to many of Ireland’s contemporary poets. In 2003, the library acquired a significant portion of Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney’s archives. Special Collections also holds the library of late poet laureate of Great Britian Ted Hughes. Last year, it received the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, believed to be the largest ever built by a private collector.


Travel Well Clinic
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TravelWell Clinic is an Emory Healthcare affiliated program aimed at providing pre- and post-traveler health services to international travelers.  Through a cooperative agreement between the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the International Society of Travel Medicine, the clinic is part of Geosentinel, a network of 30 travel/tropical medicine clinics worldwide that are sharing information in order to follow trends in morbidity and mortality in travelers, as well as pick up on emerging infections.


World Law Institute
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The World Law Institute develops outreach programs in world law, which stresses the common features of legal systems around the world. For many years, the Institute has conducted a twelve-week course in world law at the law school of the Central European University in Budapest, which is attended by post-graduate law students from Russia and Eastern Europe. It is now working on world health law, especially as it relates to protection of women’s healthcare in developing and transitional countries such as Russia, in cooperation with the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Reproductive Health.


Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center
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The Yerkes National Primate Research Center is a multidisciplinary research institute recognized as a leader in biomedical and behavioral studies with nonhuman primates. Yerkes scientists are on the forefront of developing vaccines for AIDS and malaria, and treatments for cocaine addiction and Parkinson’s disease. The Center has fostered collaborations across traditional departmental boundaries and with numerous universities and research organizations worldwide.