Carolyn Aidman, PhD

Advocacy Committee

Emory University School of Medicine

Dr. Carolyn Aidman is PARTNERS for Equity in Child & Adolescent Health’s “Convener” for school-based health care, sharing the vision, drawing interest in and helping bring School-Based Health Center planning grants to 34 counties in Georgia. Carolyn has over 30 years of front-line, programmatic, and leadership experience working with and for minority populations in public health, social services, and education. She directed the Georgia Division of Public Health’s Office of Adolescent Health and Youth Development, managing an $11 million budget, providing training to public health staff, and youth development and clinical services to children and adolescents throughout Georgia. As Executive Director of the Professional Development Centers of Florida, she led the 180-member university team that developed, delivered, and promoted a nationally recognized competency-based training, testing, and certification program for Florida’s child protection professionals.

Dr. Aidman is the Associate Director of Emory’s Urban Health Initiative, see www.urbanhealthinitiative.emory.edu developing university and community partnerships for community-engaged learning, training future health professionals, and conducting research, especially community-based participatory research. She has developed transportation ministries, providing transportation to needed services, a community teaching garden at a grocery store in a low-resourced area of Atlanta, and helps bring affordable health insurance plans through her Health Insurance Navigators and student Resource Insurance Navigators team. See http://ringofgeorgia.org