The Lillian Carter CenterforGlobal Health &Social Responsibility

Dr. Lalita Kaligotla is Professor of the Practice and Senior Assistant Dean for Leadership Development and Community Engagement. She also serves as the Executive Director for the Lillian Carter Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility. Her work is centered on adaptive leadership, civic engagement, interprofessional education, and community-based research leveraging human centered design. She has over two decades of experience envisioning and launching leadership and community engagement programs at several leading academic institutions. Her current role includes developing, implementing, and sustaining leadership development programs for staff, students, and faculty. She provides leadership and subject matter expertise on several extramurally funded grants to train nursing students and develop the healthcare workforce in Atlanta and across the southeast. She also serves as faculty director for the Fuld Fellows for Social Responsibility, a scholarship program for high achieving nursing students with a strong commitment to social responsibility.

In her previous role, Dr. Kaligotla served as Associate Director for the Hart Leadership Program, an endowed leadership development program at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Prior to that, she was on the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology where she implemented interdisciplinary curricular and co-curricular leadership and civic engagement programs. An immigrant to the United States, she obtained her doctorate in higher education policy and leadership at the University of Georgia, and an MBA from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. Prior to moving to the U.S., she completed graduate training at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, the oldest and premier school of social work in Asia, and her undergraduate education at the Osmania University College for Women in Hyderabad, India.

‍lisa.n.nunez@emory.edu

Lisa Nunez is the Director for The Lillian Carter Center (LCC) at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing (SON).  Lisa continues to enhance and advance the work of Global Engagement and Service-Learning with our international partnerships.

In this role, she will assist in creating the strategic planning, development and implementation of global programs.   She will continue to support international partnership development and management that aligns with the Mission and Vision of the School of Nursing.  Lisa continues to collaborate with local and national organizations to promote and protect underserved communities.

Lisa lives in Hiram, Georgia with her husband Robert and two children, Madeline and Charlize.

Dr. Elizabeth Downes is a Professor, clinical track, a Family Nurse Practitioner, Certified Nurse Educator and Clinical Scholar with more than 30 years of experience working in partnership with ministries of health and academic institutions to strengthen the capacity and competency of nursing workforces around the world. She has advanced nursing education and clinical training in more than a dozen countries, including Ethiopia, Fiji, Liberia, the Bahamas, Mozambique, Sudan and Zimbabwe. She developed an Advanced Practice Nursing (APN) curriculum for the World Health Organization (WHO) in the Western Pacific that resulted in the production of a sustainable nursing workforce to meet the region’s health care needs.

She has served as an international consultant to The Carter Center, an organization founded by President Jimmy Carter to advance peace and health worldwide and has played a key role in the development of faculty continuing education and national curriculums for nursing schools in countries throughout Africa. She co-authored a textbook for educators, Educating Health Professionals in Low-Resource Countries, which has shaped education and clinical training for health care professionals in low-income countries. Domestically, she leads several programs to improve health outcomes and access for vulnerable populations, including refugees and migrant farmer workers.

She is the Betty Tigner Turner Clinical Professor in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University where she serves as the Assistant Dean for Global Health and co-Director of the Lillian Carter Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility. She is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, the American Academy of Nursing and the National League for Nursing’s Academy of Nursing Education.  Her more recent accomplishments include completing the International Council of Nurses (ICN) Global Nurse Leader Institute (GNLI) Scholar program and certifying as an ICN/CGFNS Global Nurse Consultant.

Sonya joined the School of Nursing as an Administrative Assistant in 2015. She joined the Lillian Carter Center team in 2021 as a Program Coordinator. Sonya works alongside Lisa Nunez assisting with Immersions for the students and Administrative tasks.

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Lisa Tauferner is the virtual assistant for The Lillian Carter Center and works from her home office in Bryan, Texas. She supports the LCC staff with various administrative duties an can be contacted for meeting scheduling requests.

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Assistant Clinical Professor
Peace Corps Coverdell Fellow Program Coordinator
Global and Community Engagement Coordinator

helen.baker@emory.edu

View Helen Baker's faculty page here.

Assistant Director for Global Health Research for the Lillian Carter Center

Associate Professor

jacob.kariuki@emory.edu

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