Preventing Violence Against Women and Children Workshop Summary (2011) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix D: Forum Member Biographical Sketches
Appendix D: Forum Member Biographical Sketches
Pages 209-222
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Dr. Campbell's research addresses the risk factors for and the evaluation of interventions to prevent domestic violence.
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Department of Health and Human Services. Formerly, as deputy director and director of the Division of Policy and Program Development, she was responsible for numerous women's health issues, including HIV/AIDS, domestic violence, rape/sexual assault, lupus, diabetes, organ/tissue donation, minority women's health, international health, female genital cutting, mental health, homelessness, and young women's health.
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Baum managed a variety of research projects in criminal justice. While working at the Cartographic Modeling Lab in Philadelphia, she developed the Firearms Analysis System, which is a geographic information system used to track firearm-related injuries using data from the Philadelphia Police Department and the National Tracing Center of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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As head of the National Center for Injury Prevention, Dr. Cervantes has co-authored the National Specific Action Program for Road Safety and the National Specific Action Program for Violence Prevention as well as numerous analyses of morbidity and mortality from external causes of injury.
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The AMSP helps train physicians to teach others in the medical community how to better diagnose and treat alcohol dependency issues. In addition, ABI has supported domestic violence prevention initiatives.
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Additionally, he is director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center and the Youth Violence Prevention Center. He was president of the Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research and in 2007 received the Excellence in Science award from the injury section of the American Public Health Association.
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She has been a community mental health practitioner; a faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley and Georgetown University; and a research director at the American Institutes for Research. She has worked with states and communities to build systems of care for children with serious emotional and behavioral disorders.
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His research over the past 40 years has focused on the psychological foundations of aggressive and violent behavior and on how predisposing personal factors interact with precipitating situational factors to engender violent behavior. This research has included several life span longitudinal studies showing how the roots of aggressive behavior are often established in childhood.
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The foundation's grant-making programs include the Avon Breast Cancer Crusade, with goals to accelerate research and ensure access to care; women's empowerment programs, with an emphasis on domestic violence through its Speak Out Against Domestic Violence program; and special programs in response to national and international emergencies. Its extensive fundraising programs include the nine-city Avon Walk for Breast Cancer series and special events to raise awareness and funds for gender violence programs.
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She has taught courses in research methods, health, and mental health human behavior theory. Her own research activities have included evaluation of a community-based youth prevention program; investigation of HIV risk behaviors and substance use among youth; and investigation of the role of family, peer, and social network contextual factors on risk behaviors and treatment outcomes among youth and injecting drug users.
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Most recently he's been working on a global partnership with UNICEF, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, World Health Organization, and others to end sexual violence against girls. His recent publications include "Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Conduct Disorder, and Young Adult Intimate Partner Violence" (Archives of General Psychiatry, 2010)
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Previously she was director of the American Nurses Association Center for Ethics and Human Rights in Washington, DC, and a clinical scholar in the Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University Medical Center.
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She staffs the National Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues and the International Committee, and she previously staffed the Women's Issues Committee. She has expertise in policy analysis and implementation addressing gender equity, violence prevention, and early intervention; the connection of gender, equity, and risk for HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections; and public health approaches to interpersonal violence and community health.
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Additionally, Dr. Ward has contributed to the development of Jamician government policies as a task force member for the National Security Strategy for Safe Schools and as a member of the working groups for the security component of the National Development Plan, the National Strategic Plan for Children and Violence, and the Strategic Plan for Health Lifestyles.
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