Ph.D. candidate, Teaching Assistant, Research Assistant
University of Houston, Graduate College of Social Work
Houston, Texas, United States
Holly Davies, LMSW, MBA, is a doctoral candidate at the Graduate College of Social Work, University of Houston. Her clinical research focuses on trauma with a special emphasis on mental health surrounding natural disasters and force-majeure events. Holly's passion for trauma studies was informed by her work as the founder of a Community Emergency Response Team in Houston, where the challenges and inequities surrounding recovery from multiple floods became apparent. She has received mayoral and presidential awards for her flood recovery work in Houston. Prior to following her passion for social issues, Holly worked in the energy industry using path analyses and Monte Carlo simulations to evaluate tail-end risk in commodities and clearance & settlement. She currently teaches quantitative research quantitative research method labs, and is passionate about developing rigorous, evidence-based interventions and assessment tools to facilitate trauma recovery for all. Her quantitative interests explore community needs and problems as described by the communities with which she works. Ms. Davies believes that an interdisciplinary approach to flooding across federal, state, and local levels is necessary. Such work must involve scientists, engineers, policy and insurance professionals, and social scientists to ameliorate the structural, economic, and mental health issues in disaster-prone areas in order to create resilient communities throughout the USA.
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Saturday, November 12, 2022
5:00 PM – 5:30 PM