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Speaker Biographical Sketches
Hortensia Amaro, Ph.D., is distinguished professor of health sciences and
of counseling psychology and associate dean at the Bouvé College of Health
Sciences at Northeastern University and director of the Institute on Urban
Health Research. Dr. Amaro’s research has focused on alcohol and drug
use and addiction among adolescents and adults; the development and test-
ing of behavioral interventions for HIV/AIDS prevention; substance abuse
and mental health treatment for Latina and African American women and
incarcerated men; alcohol and drug use among college populations; and
behavioral interventions for HIV medications adherence. Her 1995 article
“Love, Sex and Power” (American Psychologist) was a signal contribu-
tion to the field of HIV prevention among women and received the 1996
Scientific Publication Award from the National Association of Women in
Psychology. Dr. Amaro has served on the editorial board of the American
Journal of Public Health and other leading publications, and on several
Institute of Medicine committees. Additionally, she has served on review
and advisory committees to the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. De-
partment of Health and Human Services, the Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention. Bringing her research to the frontlines, Dr. Amaro has
founded five substance abuse treatment programs for women in Boston
and, for 14 years, served on the board of the Boston Public Health Com-
mission. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine.
Frances E. Ashe-Goins, R.N., M.P.H., a registered nurse and policy analyst,
is acting director of the Office of Women’s Health at the U.S. Department
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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 vio-
lence, 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. Mrs. Ashe-Goines also coordi-
nated the regional women’s health coordinators programs. She has written
numerous articles, appeared on radio and television programs, been fea-
tured in magazine and newspaper articles, made presentations at national
and international conferences and workshops, and received many awards
and commendations. She is a featured author of a chapter on domestic
violence in the book, Policy and Politics in Nursing and Health Care, 4th
edition.
Gary Barker, Ph.D., M.P.P., is director of gender, violence, and rights at the
International Center for Research on Women (ICRW). In this role he over-
sees ICRW’s research, policy analyses, and programmatic work to develop
solutions that address the underlying causes that lead to violence against
women, including the involvement of men and boys. Dr. Barker is a social
scientist with more than 15 years of experience researching gender equality,
men and masculinities, sexuality, and HIV/AIDS. He also is an expert in
exploring the links between men and violence in conflict and post-conflict
settings in parts of Latin America, the Caribbean, sub-Saharan Africa, and
South Asia. Prior to joining ICRW, Dr. Barker was founding executive direc-
tor of Instituto Promundo, a nongovernmental organization based in Brazil
that works to promote gender equality and reduce violence against children,
youth, and women. He also has served as a consultant to the World Bank
and many United Nations agencies. Dr. Barker was elected as an Ashoka
Fellow in 2007 and awarded an Individual Projects Fellowship from the
Open Society Institute. He is a founding co-chair of MenEngage, a global
alliance of international organizations that work to engage men and boys
to promote gender equality.
David Butler-Jones, M.D., M.H.Sc., Canada’s first chief public health of-
ficer, heads the Public Health Agency of Canada, which leads the govern-
ment’s efforts to protect and promote the health and safety of Canadians.
He has worked in many parts of Canada in both public health and clinical
medicine and has consulted in a number of other countries. In addition
to serving as chief public health officer, Dr. Butler-Jones is a professor in
the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Manitoba as well as a clinical
professor with the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology at
the University of Saskatchewan’s College of Medicine. From 1995 to 2002
he was chief medical health officer and executive director of the Population
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Health and Primary Health Services Branches for the Province of Saskatch-
ewan. He has served as president of the Canadian Public Health Associa-
tion, vice president of the American Public Health Association, chair of the
Canadian Roundtable on Health and Climate Change, international regent
on the board of the American College of Preventive Medicine, member of
the governing council for the Canadian Population Health Initiative, chair
of the National Coalition on Enhancing Preventive Practices of Health
Professionals, and co-chair of the Canadian Coalition for Public Health in
the 21st Century.
Jacquelyn C. Campbell, Ph.D., R.N., is the Anna D. Wolf Chair in Nursing
at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Dr. Campbell’s research addresses
the risk factors for and the evaluation of interventions to prevent domestic
violence. She has authored numerous articles on intimate partner violence,
violence against women, and adolescent exposure to violence. Dr. Campbell
has served on the National Institute of Mental Health Violence and Trau-
matic Stress Study Section and is a member of the American Academy of
Nursing and the Institute of Medicine. She has been selected as the Simon
Visiting Scholar at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom
and, most recently, the Institute of Medicine/American Academy of Nurs-
ing/American Nursing Foundation Scholar in Residence. Dr. Campbell has
been active in the Institute of Medicine as a member of the Board on Global
Health and has served as a member of two committees of the Board on
Children, Youth, and Families.
Claire Crooks, Ph.D., is associate director of the Centre for Prevention
Science at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and adjunct profes-
sor at the University of Western Ontario. She is one of the lead developers
and researchers of the Fourth R, a relationship-based program aimed at
preventing violence and related risk behaviors in adolescents that has been
implemented in more than 1,000 schools in Canada and the United States.
Dr. Crooks is also a co-founder of the Caring Dads program, a parenting
intervention for men who have maltreated their children. In addition to
being an author of the program manual, she has been involved with train-
ing, consultation, and research on the Caring Dads project. Dr. Crooks has
co-authored more than 40 articles, chapters, and books on topics including
children’s exposure to domestic violence, child custody and access, child
maltreatment, adolescent dating violence and risk behavior, intervening
with fathers who maltreat their children, strength-based programming for
Aboriginal youth, and trauma. She is actively involved with training judges,
lawyers, and other court personnel through her work as a faculty member
for the U.S. National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. Dr.
Crooks has testified before the Canadian Senate Committee on Human
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Rights about the intersection between domestic violence and child custody
as a children’s rights issue.
Sarah Degnan Kambou, Ph.D., is president of the International Center for
Research on Women (ICRW), a global think tank that focuses on mak-
ing women integral to alleviating poverty worldwide. An accomplished
social scientist and development practitioner with expertise in sexual and
reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, and adolescent programming, Dr. Degnan
Kambou has worked in 26 countries and dedicated more than 25 years to
creating meaningful social change in the developing world. Prior to being
named president, she served as ICRW’s chief operating officer, and earlier, as
ICRW’s vice president of health and development, she oversaw research in
HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, and nutrition as well as in gender, violence,
and women’s rights. In 2010 Dr. Degnan Kambou was appointed by U.S.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to represent ICRW on the U.S. National
Commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization. Dr. Degnan Kambou joined ICRW after more than a decade
living in sub-Saharan Africa, where she managed signature programs for
CARE, a humanitarian relief and development organization. Prior to her
work in Africa, Dr. Degnan Kambou cofounded and for eight years served
as a director of the Center for International Health in the School of Public
Health at Boston University.
Jeffrey L. Edleson, Ph.D., is professor and director of research at the Uni-
versity of Minnesota School of Social Work and director of the Minnesota
Center Against Violence and Abuse. He is one of the world’s leading au-
thorities on children exposed to domestic violence and has published more
than 100 articles and 10 books on domestic violence, groupwork, and pro-
gram evaluation. Dr. Edleson is co-author, with the late Susan Schechter, of
Effective Intervention in Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment Cases:
Guidelines for Policy and Practice (NCJFCJ, 1999). Better known as the
“Greenbook,” this best-practices guide has been the subject of six feder-
ally funded and numerous other demonstration sites across the country.
Dr. Edleson also has conducted intervention research and provided techni-
cal assistance to domestic violence programs and research projects across
North America as well as in several countries in other parts of the world.
Dr. Edleson’s research, policy, and practice interests have earlier focused
on research on batterer intervention programs. In recent years, his work
has focused primarily on the impact of adult domestic violence on children
and how social systems respond to these children. Dr. Edleson is an associ-
ate editor of the journal Violence Against Women and has served on the
editorial boards of numerous other journals. He is co-editor of the Oxford
University Press book series on interpersonal violence. He is a licensed
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independent clinical social worker in Minnesota and has practiced in el-
ementary and secondary schools and in several domestic violence agencies.
Roger D. Fallot, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and director of research
and evaluation at Community Connections, a private, not-for-profit agency
providing a full range of human services in the District of Columbia. Dr.
Fallot’s professional areas of specialization include the development and
evaluation of services for trauma survivors and the role of spirituality in
recovery. The author of numerous clinical and research articles, he is a
contributing author and co-editor, with Maxine Harris, of Using Trauma
Theory to Design Service Systems (Jossey-Bass, 2001) and consults widely
on the development of trauma-informed cultures of care in human services.
A member of the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration’s (SAMHSA) Advisory Committee for Women’s Services,
Dr. Fallot was principal investigator on the District of Columbia Trauma
Collaboration Study, a SAMHSA-funded research project examining the
effectiveness of integrated services for women trauma survivors with men-
tal health and substance abuse problems. He and a group of clinicians at
Community Connections have developed a men’s version of the Trauma
Recovery and Empowerment Model, a manualized group intervention for
working with survivors of physical and sexual abuse. Dr. Fallot also is
interested in the relationships among spirituality, recovery, and well-being;
he edited and contributed chapters to Spirituality and Religion in Recovery
from Mental Illness (Jossey-Bass, 1998).
Julian D. Ford, Ph.D., is professor of psychiatry at the University of Con-
necticut School of Medicine and director of the University of Connecticut
Health Center Child Trauma Clinic and Center for Trauma Response
Recovery and Preparedness. Dr. Ford developed the TARGET (Trauma
Affect Regulation: Guide for Education and Therapy) intervention model
for adult, adolescent, and child traumatic stress disorders and co-occurring
substance use disorders. He conducts research on psychotherapy and family
therapy, health services utilization, psychometric screening and assessment,
and psychiatric epidemiology, including serving as the principal investi-
gator on several federally funded studies evaluating TARGET and other
evidence-based psychosocial interventions for families, adults, and youth.
Dr. Ford has co-edited three recent books, Treating Traumatized Children
(Routledge, 2008, with Danny Brom and Ruth Pat-Horenczyk), Encyclo-
pedia of Psychological Trauma (Wiley, 2008, with Gilbert Reyes and Jon
Elhai), and Treatment of Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders (Guilford,
2009, with Christine Courtois), and authored a textbook, Posttraumatic
Stress Disorder: Scientific and Professional Dimensions (Elsevier/Academic
Press, 2009).
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Claudia García-Moreno, M.D., M.Sc., is a physician from Mexico with
more than 25 years of experience in public health spanning Africa, Latin
America, and parts of Asia. For the past 15 years her work has focused on
women’s health and gender in health, including contributing to gender and
women’s health initiatives at the World Health Organization (WHO). She
has led WHO’s work on women and HIV/AIDS and on violence against
women and coordinated the WHO Multi-Country Study on Women’s
Health and Domestic Violence Against Women, which includes more than
14 countries. She has been involved in setting up several initiatives such
as the Sexual Violence Research Initiative. She is on the editorial board of
Reproductive Health Matters and has published and reviewed papers on
women’s health for several international journals.
Kathy Greenlee, J.D., was appointed by President Obama as the fourth
assistant secretary for aging at the Administration on Aging (AoA) within
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and confirmed by the
Senate in June 2009. Ms. Greenlee brings more than 10 years of experience
advancing the health and independence of older persons and their families
and advocating for the rights of older persons. AoA is mandated by the
Older Americans Act (OAA) to be the focal point and lead advocacy agency
for older persons and their concerns at the federal level. AoA’s vision for
older people, embodied in the OAA, is based on the value that dignity is
inherent to all individuals and the belief that older people should have the
opportunity to fully participate in all aspects of society and community life;
be able to maintain their health and independence; and be free from vio-
lence, abuse, neglect, and exploitation. AoA works with its partners at the
federal, state, and community levels to help strengthen the nation’s capacity
to promote the dignity and independence of older people. AoA works to
stimulate programmatic and policy activity at the national, state, and local
levels in order to advance the work of eliminating violence against older
adults and elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation in the United States as well
as with international organizations and researchers around the world. By
doing so, AoA seeks to address the social, economic, and health impacts
of violence against older adults and elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
Rachel Jewkes, M.D., is director of the Medical Research Council’s Gender
and Health Research Unit in Pretoria, South Africa. A public health physi-
cian, epidemiologist, and social researcher, she has spent the past 15 years re-
searching the interface of gender inequity and gender-based violence and their
intersections with health, particularly concerning HIV. She has spent many
years developing the health sector response to rape in South Africa through
research and policy development. She is secretary of the Sexual Violence
Research Initiative of the Global Forum for Health Research and member of
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the World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Advisory Panel on Injury and
Violence Prevention and Control, WHO’s Strategic and Technical Advisory
Committee for HIV–AIDS, and the PEPFAR scientific advisory board. She
has published articles on intimate partner violence and HIV in numerous
international journals, including The Lancet and the British Medical Journal.
Julia Kim, M.D., M.Sc., is the cluster leader for universal access and the
Millennium Development Goals in the HIV/AIDS group of the United Na-
tions Development Programme (UNDP). She is an internal medicine special-
ist and public health researcher by training. Prior to joining UNDP, she was
based in South Africa for 10 years, where she held joint appointments as a
senior researcher and policy advisor within the School of Public Health at
the University of the Witwatersrand and the Health Policy Unit of the Lon-
don School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her research interests have
included program and policy innovation to address gender-based violence
and HIV/AIDS at multiple levels, including in the health, education, and
criminal justice sectors. Dr. Kim’s recent work has included intervention
research on structural drivers of HIV, including the potential of strategies
such as microfinance to address the intersections between poverty, gender
inequalities, and HIV. She has served on numerous national and global
advisory groups and published across a range of issues, including gender
and development, HIV post-exposure prophylaxis, integrating reproduc-
tive health and HIV/AIDS, HIV/tuberculosis clinical services, rural health
systems development, strengthening research utilization, and addressing
social determinants of health.
James L. Lang is program coordinator of Partners for Prevention, the
regional joint program of the United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP), the United Nations Population Fund, UN Women, and UN Vol-
unteers for the primary prevention of gender-based violence in Asia and the
Pacific. Mr. Lang is a development practitioner, trainer, and author with
special interests in gender-based violence prevention and engaging boys
and men in working toward gender equality. He has worked on these is-
sues for the United Nations family and nonprofit organizations since 1997.
Previously, Mr. Lang served as the UNDP’s regional gender advisor for the
Asia-Pacific region and worked for UNDP in Laos and Sri Lanka. He has
also worked with the Family Violence Prevention Fund in San Francisco,
Oxfam Great Britain in the United Kingdom, and served as research coor-
dinator for the UN International Research and Training Institute for the
Advancement of Women and UNDP in New York. In addition to project
management and training, Mr. Lang has published numerous articles, and
edited books on the topics of poverty, men and gender, gender-based vio-
lence prevention, and other development issues.
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Judy Langford, M.S.Ed., is senior fellow at the Center for the Study of
Social Policy in Washington, D.C., where she provides technical assistance
to foundations, governmental agencies, and private organizations on the
development and implementation of family supportive practices and poli-
cies. She is currently leading the national implementation of Strengthen-
ing Families through Early Care and Education, funded by the Doris
Duke Charitable Foundation, and serves on the Board of Directors for
the Finance Project and the Southern Institute for Children and Families.
Ms. Langford is former executive director of both the Family Resource
Coalition and the Ounce of Prevention Fund. She has served as a consul-
tant for the Pew Trusts Children’s Initiative, the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, the Ewing Marion
Kauffman Foundation, the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, and the
Casey Family Programs. She has served as chair of the Illinois Family
Policy Task Force and member of the Illinois Child Welfare Advisory
Board. Ms. Langford was previously an award-winning contributing editor
for Redbook magazine and served as honorary chair of President Carter’s
Advisory Committee for Women from 1977 to 1981. Additionally, she was
a founder of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago and a fellow of Leadership
Greater Chicago.
Brigid McCaw, M.D., M.S., M.P.H., is medical director for the Family
Violence Prevention Program at Kaiser Permanente (KP). Her teaching,
research, and publications focus on developing a health systems response
to intimate partner violence and the impact of intimate partner violence on
health status and mental health. She is a fellow of the American College
of Physicians. Kaiser Permanente, a large nonprofit integrated health care
organization serving 8.6 million members in nine states and the District
of Columbia, has implemented one of the most comprehensive health care
responses to domestic violence in the United States. The nationally rec-
ognized “systems model” approach is available across the continuum of
care, including outpatient, emergency, and inpatient care; advice and call
centers; and chronic care programs. The electronic medical record includes
clinician tools to facilitate recognition, referrals, resources, and follow-up
for patients experiencing domestic violence and provides data for quality
improvement measures. Over the past decade, identification of domestic
violence has increased fivefold, with most members identified in the ambu-
latory rather than acute-care settings. The majority of identified patients
receive follow-up mental health services. Kaiser Permanente also provides
prevention, outreach, and domestic violence resources for its workforce.
Violence prevention is an important focus for KP community benefit invest-
ments and research studies. The KP program, under the leadership of Dr.
McCaw, has received several national awards.
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Margarita Quintanilla, M.P.H., is currently the country representative of
PATH in Nicaragua. Previously, she was coordinator of the Child Domes-
tic Work and Sexual Exploitation Programs of the International Program
on the Elimination of Child Labor. She has worked with the Ministry of
Health of Nicaragua and the Finnish Foreign Affairs Ministry, where she
was responsible for the project component on policies and legislation for
women’s health. Dr. Quintanilla is author of several publications on gender-
based violence in the health sector including Comprehensive Response to
Domestic Violence in the Health Services: Care Manual for Health Per-
sonnel; Medico-Legal Care in Cases of Sexual Assault in Nicaragua; and
Assessment of the Evidence Gathering, Submission, and Consideration
Procedures in Cases of Intra-Family and Sexual Violence against Women,
Children and Adolescents in Nicaragua (co-author).
Lynn Rosenthal is the first-ever White House advisor on violence against
women. She works with Vice President Joseph Biden and the White House
Council on Women and Girls to coordinate efforts across federal agencies
to address domestic violence and sexual assault. Her areas of focus since as-
suming this post include increasing resources in the federal budget, chairing
the Interagency Policy Group on Violence Against Women, and coordinating
with other White House offices to integrate these issues into other adminis-
tration priorities. Previously, Ms. Rosenthal served as executive director of
the National Network to End Domestic Violence, where she worked on the
reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act and assisted states and
local communities with implementation of this groundbreaking federal legis-
lation. She also worked closely with corporate partners to bring funding to
local communities to respond to domestic violence. Ms. Rosenthal has been
widely recognized for her efforts to address domestic violence at the national,
state, and local levels. She has been a shelter director and leader of state
domestic violence coalitions in Florida and New Mexico. In 2006, she was
the first recipient of the Sheila Wellstone Institute National Advocacy Award.
Judith A. Salerno, M.D., M.S., was appointed executive officer of the Insti-
tute of Medicine of The National Academies in January 2008. From 2001
to 2007, Dr. Salerno served as deputy director of the National Institute on
Aging at the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services. In this capacity, Dr. Salerno had oversight of more than $1
billion in aging research conducted and supported annually by the institute,
including research on Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases,
frailty and function in late life, and the social, behavioral, and demographic
aspects of aging. A geriatrician, Dr. Salerno is interested in improving the
health and well-being of older persons and has designed public–private ini-
tiatives to address aging stereotypes, novel approaches to support training
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of new investigators in aging, and award-winning programs to commu-
nicate health and research advances to the public. Dr. Salerno also serves
on numerous boards and national committees concerned with health care
issues ranging from the quality of care in long-term care to the future of
the geriatric workforce.
Bryan Samuels, M.P.P., is commissioner of the Administration on Children,
Youth and Families and has spent his career formulating service delivery in-
novations and streamlining operations in large government organizations on
behalf of children, youth, and families. His commitment to public service is
largely motivated by his own success in overcoming great personal hardship
during his 11.5 years of growing up in a residential school for disadvantaged
children. This experience helped shape his commitment to serve children
who lived in foster care and reinforced his belief that dedicated people and
well-designed programs can make a dramatic impact on the lives of at-risk
youth. As chief of staff for Chicago Public Schools, Mr. Samuels played a
leadership role in managing the day-to-day operations of the third largest
school system in the nation. Prior to this role, he served as director of the
Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, where he moved aggres-
sively to implement comprehensive assessments of all children entering care,
redesigned transitional and independent living programs to prepare youth
for transitioning to adulthood, created a child location unit to track all run-
away youth, and introduced evidence-based services to address the impact of
trauma and exposure to violence on children in state care. Mr. Samuels has
taught at the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration
and also has provided technical assistance to state and local governments to
improve human service delivery to vulnerable populations.
Kiersten Stewart is director of public policy and advocacy for the Fam-
ily Violence Prevention Fund and manages its Washington, DC, office. In
that capacity she advocates on behalf of abused women and children and
works to prevent violence in our homes and communities here and around
the world. Prior to joining the fund’s Washington, DC, office, she was the
chief of staff to U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey, handling his legislative work
around women’s issues, HIV/AIDS, civil rights, immigration, and poverty
and managing his successful 1998 campaign.
Cris M. Sullivan, Ph.D., is professor of ecological/community psychology
and director of the Violence Against Women Research and Outreach Ini-
tiative at Michigan State University (MSU). She also is associate chair of
the psychology department and senior fellow of MSU’s Office on Outreach
and Engagement. In addition to her MSU appointments, Dr. Sullivan is
the director of research and evaluation for the Michigan Coalition Against
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Domestic and Sexual Violence and senior research advisor to the National
Resource Center on Domestic Violence. Dr. Sullivan’s areas of research
expertise include conducting longitudinal, experimental evaluations of com-
munity interventions for abused women and their children; improving the
community response to violence against women; and evaluating victim
service programs. In addition to consulting for local, state, federal, and
international organizations and initiatives, Dr. Sullivan also conducts work-
shops on effectively advocating in the community for women with abusive
partners, and their children; understanding the effects of domestic abuse on
women and children over time; improving system responses to the problem
of violence against women; and evaluating victim service agencies.
Cheryl Thomas, J.D., is director of the Women’s Human Rights Program,
a program she founded at the Advocates for Human Rights (formerly Min-
nesota Advocates for Human Rights) in 1993. Since 1994 Ms. Thomas has
traveled throughout Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union,
and Morocco to work with local partners to promote women’s human
rights. She has provided consultation and training to government officials,
legal professionals, and civil society groups in Armenia, Bosnia, Bulgaria,
Georgia, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Morocco, and Tajikistan on best practices
in legal reform on violence against women. In 2008 she was selected to be
1 of 15 experts from around the world to participate in a United Nations
expert group meeting and publish a report on good practices in legislation
on violence against women. In 2009 she participated in a second UN Expert
Group Meeting in Ethiopia focused on harmful practices against women,
with a report published in 2010 (Good Practices in Legislation on “Harm-
ful Practices” Against Women). She has published numerous articles and
reports on violence against women as a human rights abuse, most recently
a report titled Sex Trafficking Needs Assessment for the State of Minnesota.
Previously, she was adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota Law
School, where she taught women’s international human rights, and execu-
tive director of WATCH, a court monitoring organization focused on cases
of violence against women and children. Ms. Thomas was honored as a
2005 Changemaker by Minnesota Women’s Press.
Agnes Tiwari, Ph.D., R.N., is an associate professor and assistant dean of
the School of Nursing at Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of the University
of Hong Kong. More than a decade ago, Dr. Tiwari set up the first nurse-
led health clinic providing health screening and interventions in a shelter
for abused women in Hong Kong. To date, not only has the service been
extended to more than half of the shelters, but also the health data gathered
have provided much-needed information about the needs of Chinese women
survivors of intimate partner violence in general and the mental health impact
of psychological abuse on Chinese women in particular. Her decade-long
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efforts to advocate for abused women, supported by her research program,
have influenced the Hong Kong government to set up a territory-wide initia-
tive providing crisis support services to families across Hong Kong, and she
has been appointed as an advisor to the initiative. Dr. Tiwari has developed
several models of intervention for abused women and evaluated their efficacy
to promote resilience and prevent violence using randomized controlled tri-
als. She also has designed and implemented different approaches of service
delivery for primary prevention of violence against women and children
in prenatal and community settings. Empowerment is a key feature of the
models and approaches, which can be adapted to different settings, including
those with resource constraints. The results of a recent randomized control
trial that Dr. Tiwari led, focusing on advocacy intervention to improve the
mental health of community-dwelling abused women, were published in the
Journal of the American Medical Association (2010).
Monique Widyono, M.P.A., M.S.W., is a program officer for gender, vio-
lence, and rights at the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health
(PATH). At PATH, she has focused on gender-based violence and develop-
ing a framework for understanding femicide. Previously Ms. Widyono was
co-executive director of Equality Now, a New York-based women’s rights
organization, and has been on the staff of the U.N. Division for the Ad-
vancement of Women.
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Denise Wilson, Ph.D., R.N., is associate professor at Maori Health AUT
University and editor-in-chief of Nursing Praxis in New Zealand. Addi-
tionally, she is a member of the Ministry of Health Family Violence Advi-
sory Committee, Korowai Atawhai Advisory Group, Wharangi Ruamano
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(Maori Nurse Educators), and the Nursing Network for Violence Against
Women International. She is fellow of the College of Nurses Aotearoa (New
Zealand) and Te Mata o te Tau (Academy of Maori Research & Scholar-
ship). Dr. Wilson has served as a member of the 1998 Ministerial Taskforce
on Nursing, the Nursing Council of New Zealand’s Education Advisor, and
a board member of Te Rau Puawai. Prior to commencing employment at
AUT, Dr. Wilson was senior lecturer in Nursing (Maori Health) at Massey
University. Before her academic career, Dr. Wilson was a registered nurse
in various acute-care and community settings. She has an extensive back-
ground in undergraduate and postgraduate nursing education, teaching in
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the areas of Maori/indigenous health, nursing practice, research design and
methods, cultural safety, and family violence. Dr. Wilson is of Ngati Tah-
inga Tainui Awhiro and Ngati Porou ki Harataunga descent.
David A. Wolfe, Ph.D., is a psychologist and author specializing in issues af-
fecting children and youth. He holds the inaugural RBC Chair in Children’s
Mental Health at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH),
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where he is head of the Centre for Prevention Science located in London. He
also is professor of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Toronto
and editor-in-chief of Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal.
His recent book is entitled Adolescent Risk Behaviors: Why Teens Experi-
ment and Strategies to Keep Them Safe (Yale University Press, 2006, with
Peter Jaffe & Claire Crooks). Dr. Wolfe has broad research and clinical
interests in abnormal child and adolescent psychology with a special focus
on child abuse, domestic violence, and developmental psychopathology. He
has authored numerous articles on these topics, especially in relationship
to the impact of early childhood trauma on later development in child-
hood, adolescence, and early adulthood. Dr. Wolfe has been pioneering
new approaches to preventing many societal youth problems such as bul-
lying, relationship violence, and substance abuse. He recently received the
Donald O. Hebb Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as
a Science from the Canadian Psychological Association, and the Blanche L.
Ittleson Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Delivery of Children’s
Services and the Promotion of Children’s Mental Health from the American
Orthopsychiatric Association.
Gail Elizabeth Wyatt, Ph.D., a licensed clinical psychologist and a board-
certified sex therapist, is professor of psychiatry and biomedical sciences
at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Behavior at the University of
California, Los Angeles (UCLA). For the first 17 years of her career, Dr.
Wyatt was the first ethnic minority to receive training as a sexologist.
She received a prestigious K award from the National Institute of Mental
Health to develop the expertise to develop culturally congruent measures,
conceptual frameworks, and interventions to capture sexual decision mak-
ing among ethnic minority men and women within a socio-cultural frame-
work. She was the first African-American woman in California to receive a
license to practice psychology and the first African-American woman Ph.D.
in a school of medicine to reach full professor. Dr. Wyatt directs the Sexual
Health Program, the National Institutes of Health–funded Phodiso Training
Project in South Africa, and the HIV/AIDS Translational Training Program
and is associate director of the UCLA CFAR/AIDS Institute. She has been
internationally recognized for her work in Jamaica, Africa, India, and, most
recently, South Africa where she conducts a longitudinal study of the after-
math of rape among South African women. She has published numerous
books and journal articles, including the best-selling book Stolen Women:
Reclaiming our Sexuality Taking Back Our Lives (John Wiley and Sons,
1997). Dr. Wyatt was instrumental in the Call for a State of Emergency
by numerous state, community, and religious organizations to address the
AIDS epidemic in black communities and subsequent health and mental
health disparities that continue to fuel the virus.
