Kathryn Yount

Dr. Kathryn Yount is Asa Griggs Candler Chair of Global Health (2012) and Professor of Global Health and Sociology (2015) at Emory University. Her research centers on the social determinants of women’s health, including mixed-methods evaluations of social-norms and empowerment-based programs to reduce gender-based violence and health disparities in underserved populations. She has been funded continuously since 2002 from U.S. federal agencies, private foundations, and foreign agencies to work in parts of Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, and underserved communities in Atlanta. These collaborations have culminated in more than 180 publications in the social sciences and global health.

Dr. Yount is also founding director of GROW, an initiative to advance scholarship, leadership, and social change with respect to women’s and girls’ empowerment, the prevention of gender-based violence (GBV), and women’s health. In 2016, Dr. Yount received the university-wide Women of Excellence award for Mentoring from the Center for Women at Emory. Currently, Dr. Yount serves as an elected member of the Board of Directors for the Population Association of America (2018-2020), an invited member of advisory boards on DfID- and BMGF-funded women’s empowerment and GBV prevention initiatives, and member to the DfID-funded Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) consortium.