Marie Lina Excellent
Assistant Professor
McGavran Greenberg Hall
919 843-5313
marilina@live.unc.edu
Faculty Website
Dr. Marie Lina Excellent (She/Her/Hers/Elle/Ella) is a physician by training who earned her Master of Public Health in May 2016 from the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health at Chapel Hill thanks to a dual scholarship from Fulbright and UNC. Throughout her career, Dr. Excellent thrived and inspired others through her commitment to improving HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment and is a champion in continuous quality improvement (CQI).
During her over a decade of experience, Dr. Excellent helped Haitian National AIDS Control Program with the development and updates of policies and tools related to HIV/AIDS. She co-authored two HIV/AIDS published articles and presented several posters on HIV/AIDS interventions and CQI at national and international conferences (IHI; BMJ; AIDS 2018, AIDS 2020 & AIDS 2022; ICASA-2019 & 2021; IAS-2021 & IAS 2023; USAID 2021 Annual Meeting; APHA 2022; IAS-2023). She served as a mentor for the International AIDS Society (IAS). Dr. Excellent is passionate about teaching, equity, global health, leadership, community engagement, and implementation science. Dr. Excellent currently serves as an Assistant Professor and Faculty Director of the Online Global Health Certificate in Public Health Leadership at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her philosophy is “Know to better serve others in need through teamwork!" Dr. Excellent is a core member of the PHLP Anti-racism Co-design Team and serves as an instructor for the following courses: Critical Issues in Global Health (PUBH711); HIV/AIDS Online Course (PUBH 725); Leading Quality Improvement in Public Health (PUBH 730) and my new course Applying Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) And Leadership in Public Health Practice (PUBH890).
In 2016, Dr. Excellent conducted the evaluation of the reaccreditation of North Carolina Local Health Departments for improvement in collaboration with the North Carolina Institute of Public Health (NCIPH).
Dr. Excellent is passionate about teaching, equity, global health, leadership, community engagement, and implementation science. Dr. Excellent currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Leadership and Practice (PHLP) at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her philosophy is “Know to better serve others in need through teamwork!". Dr. Excellent is a core member of the PHLP Anti-racism Co-design Team. Dr Excellent is also the Faculty Director of the Online Global Health Certificate administered by PHLP. She currently serves on the UNC Gillings Faculty Advisory Council and the Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE) Advisory Board.
