Preventing Violence

Against Women

and Children

Workshop Summary

Deepali M. Patel, Rapporteur

Forum on Global Violence Prevention
Board on Global Health

INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE
              OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES

THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS

Washington, D.C.

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NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.

This study was supported by contracts between the National Academy of Sciences and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Administration on Aging, Office of Women’s Health; Anheuser-Busch InBev; Avon Foundation for Women; BD (Becton Dickinson, and Company); Catholic Health Initiatives; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Department of Education: Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools; Department of Justice: National Institute of Justice; Fetzer Foundation; F. Felix Foundation; Foundation to Promote Open Society; Kaiser Permanente; National Institutes of Health: National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Office of Research on Women’s Health, John E. Fogarty International Center; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the organizations or agencies that provided support for this project.

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“Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.”      

                                                —Goethe

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              OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES

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FORUM ON GLOBAL VIOLENCE PREVENTION

JACQUELYN C. CAMPBELL (Co-chair), Anna D. Wolf Chair and Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing

MARK ROSENBERG (Co-chair), President and CEO, The Task Force for Global Health

CLARE ANDERSON, Deputy Commissioner, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Department of Health and Human Services

FRANCES ASHE-GOINS, Acting Director, Office on Women’s Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

KATRINA BAUM, Division Director, Violence & Victimization Research, National Institute of Justice, Department of Justice

SUSAN BISSELL, Associate Director, Child Protection Section, UNICEF

ARTURO CERVANTES TREJO, Director General, National Center for Injury Prevention, Ministry of Health, Mexico

XINQI DONG, Associate Professor of Medicine, Behavioral Sciences and Nursing, Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, Rush University Medical Center

AMIE GIANINO, Global Director, Beer & Better World, Anheuser-Busch InBev

KATHY GREENLEE, Assistant Secretary for Aging, Administration on Aging, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

RODRIGO V. GUERRERO, City Counselor, Cali, Colombia

JOHN R. HAYES, Global Strategy Leader for Neuroscience, Medical Affairs, Eli Lilly and Company

DAVID HEMENWAY, Director, Injury Control Research Center and the Youth Violence Prevention Center, Harvard University

FRANCES HENRY, Advisor, F. Felix Foundation

MERCEDES S. HINTON, Program Officer, Initiative on Confronting Violent Crime, Open Society Institute

LARKE NAHME HUANG, Senior Advisor, Office of the Administrator, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

L. ROWELL HUESMANN, Amos N. Tversky Collegiate Professor of Psychology and Communication Studies Director, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan

KEVIN JENNINGS, Assistant Deputy Secretary of Education, Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, Department of Education

CAROL M. KURZIG, President, Avon Foundation for Women

JOANNE LACROIX, Manager, Family Violence Prevention Unit, Public Health Agency of Canada

JACQUELINE LLOYD, Health Scientist Administrator, Prevention Research Branch, Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse

BRIGID McCAW, Medical Director, NCal Family Violence Prevention Program, Kaiser Permanente

JAMES A. MERCY, Special Advisor for Strategic Directions, Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Prevention and Control

PEGGY MURRAY, Senior Advisor for International Research, Office of the Director, National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

MICHAEL PHILLIPS, Director, Suicide Research and Prevention Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

COLLEEN SCANLON, Senior Vice President, Advocacy, Catholic Health Initiatives

KRISTIN SCHUBERT, Program Officer, Vulnerable Populations Portfolio, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

EVELYN TOMASZEWSKI, Senior Policy Advisor, Human Rights and International Affairs, National Association of Social Workers

ELIZABETH WARD, Chairman, Violence Prevention Alliance, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus

Staff

DEEPALI M. PATEL, Program Officer

RACHEL M. TAYLOR, Research Associate

RACHEL E. PITTLUCK, Senior Program Assistant

BRANDON J. STRATFORD, Christine Mirzayan Fellow (January 2011-April 2011)

ELENA NIGHTINGALE, Scholar-in-Residence

KATE BURNS, Intern

JULIE WILTSHIRE, Financial Officer

PATRICK KELLEY, Board Director

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Reviewers

This report has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the National Research Council’s Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the process. We wish to thank the following individuals for their review of this report:

NAEEMAH ABRAHAMS, Senior Researcher, Gender & Health Research Unit, Medical Research Council of South Africa

MANUEL CONTRERAS, Gender and Public Health Specialist, International Center for Research on Women

LISA NAJAVITS, Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine

AGNES TIWARI, Associate Professor and Assistant Dean, School of Nursing, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong

Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the final draft

of the report before its release. The review of this report was overseen by Richard Krugman, Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs and Dean, University of Colorado at Denver. Appointed by the Institute of Medicine they were responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this report rests entirely with the author and the institution.

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