Social and Economic Costs of Violence Workshop Summary (2012) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Pages 147-160
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Theresa Betancourt, Sc.D., M.A., is assistant professor of child health and human rights in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health.
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As head of the National Center for Injury Prevention, Dr. Cervantes has coauthored the National Specific Action Program for Road Safety, the National Specific Action Program for Violence Prevention, and numerous analyses of morbidity and mortality from external causes of injury for the country.
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Her research focuses on the practical application of economic evaluation for setting health policy, specifically related to population-based public health interventions, qualityof-life assessment for vulnerable populations, evaluating preferences for health risks, and violence and injury prevention.
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Previously, she facilitated a statewide interagency violence prevention partnership in California's state government; evaluated community-wide violence prevention efforts; co-taught a violence prevention graduate course in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley; and contributed to the Partnerships for Preventing Violence satellite training series through research, script development, facilitator training, and project management. She has also facilitated strategic planning processes resulting in Oxnard, California's Strategic Action Framework for Empowered, Thriving Youth (SAFETY)
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Dr. Dong is a Beeson Scholar, and is the recipient of the Nobuo Maeda International Aging and Public Health Research Award, the National Physician Advocacy Merit Award, and the Maxwell A
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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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He also specializes in conducting qualitative research that elicits informative, accurate, and authentic responses, using proprietary focus group research and data analysis methodologies he designed in order to determine the motivation and persuasion techniques that best reach and influence any target population. In collecting and analyzing thousands of hours of qualitative, grassroots research, Ivan Juzang has talked to thousands of adults and youth living in underserved communities impacted by violence, grinding poverty, and other social issues.
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. This responsibility entailed managing approximately $42 million dollars of emerging infections surveillance, response, training, and capacity-building activities undertaken in partnership with numerous elements of the federal government and with health ministries in more than 45 developing countries.
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In addition to alcohol misuse promoting aggressive behavior, victimization as a result of violence can lead to excessive alcohol consumption. Strategies to prevent violence must take this into account and, to be effective, must deal with the
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Collaborating Center for Research and Training in Suicide Prevention at Beijing Hui Long Guan Hospital, professor of psychiatry and global health at Emory University, professor of clinical psychiatry and clinical epidemiology at Columbia University, vice chairperson of the Chinese Society for Injury Prevention and Control, and treasurer of the International Association for Suicide Prevention. He is currently the principal investigator on a number of multicenter collaborative projects on suicide, depression, and schizophrenia.
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Prothrow-Stith has extensive clinical experience including service as attending physician at Boston City Hospital and chief of the Adolescent Clinic at Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center. In addition to 10 honorary doctorates, Dr.
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Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Harvard Graduate School of Education; professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston; and director of the university-wide Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. He also chairs the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, a multi-university collaboration comprising leading scholars in neuroscience, psychology, pediatrics, and economics, whose mission is to bring credible science to bear on policy affecting young children.
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Ward has contributed to the development of Jamaician 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 Healthy Lifestyles. Hugh Waters, M.D., Ph.D., is a senior health specialist with Rand Health.
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Wells was director of the Safe Schools-Healthy Students Initiative for Stokes County Schools in North Carolina. A psychologist by training, Dr.
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