Dr. Kathryn Yount is Asa Griggs Candler Professor 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 social, health, and economic disparities in underserved communities. 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 the state of Georgia in the US. She is PI and Program Director of CONVERGE, a Fogarty/NIH-funded D43 program training the next generation of science leaders in violence prevention and global health in Vietnam and PI of a national trial in which her team is implementing GlobalConsent, an efficacious sexual violence prevention program she has developed, tested, and scaled in seven universities across Vietnam. She was honored to serve on the National Academies/Committee on Population panel that produced the concensus report on women's empowerment, population dynamics, and socioeconomic change and is an award-winner mentor of early-career scientists. These partnerships have contributed 300 publications in the social sciences and global health.