An ad hoc committee will plan a two-day public workshop to illuminate and explore the ways in which violence prevention practitioners can best share their findings and evidence-base with policymakers for the production of effective and impactful policy approaches to violence prevention. The workshop will highlight current knowledge bases from around the world across multiple forms of violence and illuminate the ways in which these knowledge bases can be mobilized into policy. This will include an exploration of policymakers' goals and needs and the ways in which violence prevention experts can best communicate their findings to policymakers, as well as an exploration of lessons learned from around the world in this context. The workshop will explore crosscutting approaches to violence prevention and will cover multiple forms of violence across the life-course (such as child maltreatment and violence against children, violence against women, self-directed violence, interpersonal violence, youth violence, and the relationship between alcohol and violence, etc.).

To these ends, proposed questions for consideration by invited speakers and guests include:

1. In what ways do policies influence individual behavior-- especially within the context of violence? How can we operationalize this knowledge?
2. Across the globe, what policies are showing measurable impact in reducing the burden of violence and how might they translated/brought to scale/linked to other regions and contexts?
3. What are the lessons learned from policy approaches to violence prevention?
4. How can violence prevention experts better communicate their findings to policymakers for use in the development of actionable policy?
5. What are the opportunities for collaboration across sectors within this context?

The committee will develop the workshop agenda, select and invite speakers and discussants, and moderate the discussions. Experts will be drawn from the public and private sectors as well as from academic organizations and multilaterals to allow for multi-directional, evidence-based discussions. A rapporteur-authored proceedings in brief of the presentations and discussions at the workshop will be prepared in accordance with institutional guidelines.