Dr. Rustin received his Bachelor of Science in Biology from Armstrong Atlantic State University and his Master’s in Safety and Environmental Compliance and Doctor of Public Health from Georgia Southern University.  He is a Registered Environmental Health Specialist with the Georgia Board of Registered Environmental Health Professionals, a Fellow of the CDC Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute, and the past President of the Georgia Public Health Association. 

Over the past 25 years, Dr. Rustin has served in key public health leadership positions at the state and local health department level. At the local level, he served as an Environmental Health Specialist for Evans County Health Department, managed environmental health programs for Effingham and Chatham County Health Departments, and served as the Administrative Director of the Chatham County Health Department, overseeing all public health programs. At the state level, Dr. Rustin served as the Deputy Commissioner, Director of Health Protection, and Director of Environmental Health managing various public health programs within the Georgia Department of Public Health. 

Dr. Rustin enjoys teaching public health to the next generation of public health practitioners and served as an Assistant Professor in the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University from 2016-2017.