Strategic Priorities

Health Care

Care + Compassion

Emory spent over $1.5 billion on community benefits in FY2024. Emory’s Woodruff Health Sciences Center provided over $809 million in community benefits, and Emory Healthcare’s hospitals contributed $519 million in total benefits to the communities they serve. 

As an academic health center, Emory cares for some of the state's sickest patients, with more than one in six patients arriving at Emory University Hospital after their care needs could not be met elsewhere. To continue to serve our state, we are committed to training the next generation of providers, including educating half of the residents in the state of Georgia.

Priorities include ensuring that government regulations improve patient care.

Higher Education

Access + Affordability

Any student accepted here should be able to choose an Emory education regardless of financial ability.

Emory awarded over $211 million in need- and merit-based scholarships and grants in FY2024. This is 27 times more than the federal government provides. The Emory Advantage program gives students the opportunity to graduate with little to no debt, easing the financial burdens that can limit their postgraduate career opportunities or educational choices.

Priorities include improved financial aid dollars as well as policies that support highly functioning institutions of higher education.

Research

Discovery + Innovation

Emory is proud to partner with the government in advancing the nation's research enterprise.

Our groundbreaking researchers are awarded more than $600 million in federal direct research grants and an additional $200 million in federal research reimbursement funding each year. Emory also provides significant infrastructure resources—over $250 million annually—to support the success of our researchers. See our one-pager outlining the Emory-Federal Government Research Partnership. And this graphic explains the Building Blocks of Research.

Emory, as part of its commitment to improving lives, provides significant infrastructure resources to help our researchers succeed. For every dollar an Emory researcher brings into Georgia, it's estimated that Emory contributes nearly 25 cents of its own resources.

Priorities include stable and consistent government investment and maintaining the integrity of the peer-review process.