Role: MD, MPH Vice-Chair for Research and Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University

  Contact: dhoury@emory.edu

 Scholarship:
Public Health | Intimate Partner Violence | Access to Care | Mental Health Issues

Dr. Debra Houry, MD, MPH, is Vice-Chair for Research and Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and in the Department of Behavioral Science and Health Education and Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Rollins School of Public Health.

She is currently the Director for the Center for Injury Control, Rollins School of Public Health and teaches several courses on violence and injury prevention at Emory. Her primary research interests are in the prevention of violence against women, mental health issues related to violence, and emergency care. She has been the Principal Investigator on two federally funded grants totaling 1.6 million dollars, one entitled "Computer based screening for Domestic Violence and Mental Health Symptoms", the other "Safety and Effectiveness of Computer screening for Domestic Violence Victims and Perpetrators". Dr. Houry has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters on injury prevention and violence. Dr. Houry has been the recipient of several national awards, including the Jay Drotman Award, given annually by the American Public Health Association for the most outstanding young public health professional in the country (2002) and the first Linda Saltzman Memorial Intimate Partner Violence Researcher Award from the Institute on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma (2007). She serves on several national committees for the American College of Emergency Physicians, Society for Academic Emergency Physicians, and the Academy for Violence and Abuse. She is an Associate editor for Annals of Emergency Medicine.