Mountain Talk: College of Health Progress Report w/ Dean Dolan

The Lehigh University College of Health is shaping the future of health and healthcare through its innovative approach to teaching and research in population health and health innovation and technology. The college has grown substantially over the last 4 years and most recently by the guidance of Dean Elizabeth Dolan.
In this Mountain Talk, Dolan will provide a progress update on the growth of the college over the last 4 years and the direction faculty and staff are working towards. She will cover a number of topics, including the college’s mission, strategic plan, faculty and research, students and programs (undergraduate and graduate), staff hiring, student experiential learning, corporate and community partners, and more.
Dolan has served as the interim dean of the College of Health since December 2020. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in literature at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, where she was also the senior fellow in literature and medicine in the College of Medicine for three years. A specialist in health humanities, Dolan studies the expression of suffering in literature and in life from the eighteenth century to today. Her previous administrative roles have included serving as the founding director of the Health, Medicine, and Society Program at Lehigh, the chair of the board of directors of the PA Medical Humanities Association, and the first deputy provost for graduate education at Lehigh. She won Lehigh's Junior Faculty Teaching Award, the Frank Hook Assistant Professorship for Excellence in Mentoring and Teaching, and the Hillman Faculty Award for Excellence in Administrative Work.