Patricia Rodney, PhD, MPH, RN is the Assistant Dean for Public Health Education, Director MPH Program and Professor, Department of Community Health & Preventive Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.

Dr. Rodney received her doctor of philosophy degree in Sociology and Adult Education, from the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education,
University of Toronto, Canada, and an MPH degree,

Emory University, Atlanta, GA and an RN from the Royal Northern Hospital, London, England. In 2002, Dr. Rodney was awarded a Health Partners Fellowship at University of Illinois, Chicago, IL. She is a graduate of theprogram and received a Post Graduate Certificate in Health Leadership Development in 2004.

Dr. Rodney has over 20 years of extensive work and service experience in the areas of adult education and literacy, women’s health and development and occupational health and safety. Her professional work and research areas are global women’s health and development, issues, state theory and adult literacy. She has worked in the Caribbean, East Africa, South Africa, Canada, and the US. In addition to several articles she is the author of The Caribbean State, Health Care and Women, Africa World Press, 1998. Dr. Rodney was the Editor of two Special Issues of the American Journal of Health Studies on the “Health of Women of Color” in 2001/ 2003.