Deborah F. Perry is the Director of Research & Evaluation for HJA and for the Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development and a Professor in Pediatrics at Georgetown University Medical Center.

Throughout her career, Deborah’s research has focused on low-income communities of color, and bringing evidence-based interventions to scale to address health disparities and reduce the impact of social determinants of health on children and families.

She is a national expert on issues related to perinatal mental health and provides the HJA with leadership on approaches to design and test the effectiveness of preventive interventions, including the MLP model.

Following the tenets of community-engaged research, the HJA research and evaluation portfolio includes mixed methods approaches to gathering data, contextualizing findings and disseminating our work broadly.

These evaluation projects are providing HJA with critical information to document and interpret findings about who benefits from MLP interventions and why.

Deborah has a PhD in maternal and child health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a masters in psychology from the New School for Social Research.