Contagion of Violence Workshop Summary (2013) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix C: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Appendix C: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Pages 156-172
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Under her direction, AIC has trained hundreds of young Middle Eastern activists in the methods of nonviolent protest and social media mobilization, empowering them to take on regimes during the Arab Spring. In Iraq, she launched a program that disrupts and mediates tribal and sectarian violence as it happens, saving dozens of lives in Basra and Baghdad.
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Burton has worked on the first national youth victimization study to be conducted in South Africa, youth resilience to violence study, a national school violence baseline study, and a cyber-violence pilot study. Other more recent projects undertaken include explorations into the causes and nature of youth violence, and intensive work into the extent and nature of school violence in South Africa and the region.
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She has been appointed to three IOM/NAS Committees evaluating evidence in various aspects the area of violence against women, and currently serves on the IOM Board on Global Health and co-chairs the IOM Forum on Global Violence Prevention. She is also a member of the Fulbright Specialist Roster and does work in collaboration with shelters, governments, criminal justice agencies, schools of nursing, and health care settings in countries such as Australia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, New Zealand, South Africa, and Spain.
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He is a founding member of the National Consortium on Violence Research, the Working Group on Legitimacy and the Criminal Law of the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Working Group on Incarceration at Russell Sage. From 2002 to 2005, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Fellow.
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Deborah Gorman-Smith, Ph.D., is a senior research fellow at Chapin Hall and principal investigator and director of the Chicago Center for Youth Violence Prevention, 1 of 10 National Academic Centers of Excellence funded by the CDC. Her program of research, grounded in a public health perspective, is focused on advancing knowledge about development, risk, and prevention of aggression and violence, with specific focus on minority youth living in poor urban settings.
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, and more recently contributed to www.reportingonmedia.org. The recipient of the Shneidman Award for Research from the American Association of Suicidology in 1991, the New York State Office of Mental Health Research Award in 2002, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Research Award in 2006, and the New York State Suicide Prevention Center's Excellence in Suicide Prevention Award in 2011, Dr.
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He is also editor of the journal Aggressive Behavior and past president of the International Society for Research on Aggression. 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.
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He also directs a unique capacity-building effort, the African Science Academy Development Initiative, which over 10 years aims to strengthen the capacity of eight African academies to provide independent, evidence-based advice to their governments on scientific matters. Prior to coming to the NAS, Dr.
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Valerie Maholmes, Ph.D., is the program director for the Child and Family Processes/Maltreatment and Violence Research Program in the Child Development and Behavior Branch at the NICHD. In this capacity she provides scientific leadership on research and research training relevant to normative development in children from the newborn period through adolescence, and on the impact of specific aspects of physical and social environments on the health and psychological development of infants, children, and adolescents.
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She is a leading authority on cultural resilience, student retention, and indigenous evaluation, and her publications address issues of traditional native culture and resilience, family support models, cultural and school partnerships, and indigenous theoretical foundations on educational persistence. She has delivered training and technical assistance on a variety of topics, such as historical trauma, bullying, cultural resilience, youth leadership, substance abuse, post-vention, curriculum development, indigenous research methods, student retention, and sustainability.
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In awarding this distinction, the Foundation cited his work to design "new models of health care that stretch across the boundaries of public health, education, social service, and justice systems to engage young men in caring for themselves and their peers." Prior to Drexel University, Dr. Rich served as the medical director of the Boston Public Health Commission.
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She serves as the editor in chief for Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work, and a member on the editorial boards of Social Thought, Affilia, Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Services, and Social Development Issues. Among her many publication are articles on women issues; two co-edited books, Mental Health and People of Color: Curriculum Development and Change, Howard University Press, 1983, and Social Work Practice with Asian Americans, Sage Publications, Inc., 1992; and a co-authored monograph titled Muslim Refugees in the United States.
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(Planning Committee Member) , is a senior policy advisor within the Human Rights and International Affairs Division of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
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Ursano, M.D., is professor of psychiatry and neuroscience and chair of the department of psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and founding director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress. He is widely published in the areas of posttraumatic stress disorder and public health planning for the psychological effects of terrorism, bioterrorism, traumatic events, and disasters, including war.
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Deanna L Wilkinson, Ph.D., M.A., is currently associate professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Science in the College of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University, where she conducts research and teaches on urban youth violence, community processes, and violence prevention.
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She was honored at the 13th annual Strategies Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE) awards in 2009 with the Les Wright Youth Advocacy Award.
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