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Appendix C
Speaker Biographical
Sketches
Zainab Al-Suwaij is a co-founder of the American Islamic Congress (AIC)
and has been its executive director since its inception in 2001. In the wake
of the 9/11 terror attacks, Ms. Al-Suwaij left her teaching position at Yale
University to launch AIC with the mission of building interfaith and inter-
ethnic understanding and to represent the diversity of American Muslim
life. Over the past decade, Ms. Al-Suwaij’s leadership has expanded AIC
into an international organization with bureaus worldwide, including the
United States, Egypt, Iraq, and its newest location, Tunisia. Under her di-
rection, 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. Ms. Al-Suwaij’s
vision for acceptance and understanding in the United States is being real-
ized through AIC’s growing campus initiative, Project Nur, as well as its
Interfaith Councils and groundbreaking Witness Series. Ms. Al-Suwaij is
an outspoken advocate for women’s equality, civil rights, and interfaith
understanding. She has briefed Congress and the White House and has
been invited to speak at numerous panel events, universities, and think
tanks. Ms. Al-Suwaij has published editorials in the three largest American
newspapers: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. She has
appeared on NPR, BBC, Al-Jazeera, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, and Fox.
Named an “Ambassador of Peace” by the Interreligious and International
Peace Council, Ms. Al-Suwaij has received Dialogue on Diversity’s Liberty
Award and was recognized as “2006 International Person of the Year” by
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the National Liberty Museum. Raised in Basra, Iraq, Ms. Al-Suwaij fled the
country after participating in the 1991 uprising against Saddam Hussein
and is now a U.S. citizen living in the Washington, DC, area.
Carl C. Bell, M.D., a clinical professor of psychiatry and public health, is
the director of the Institute for Juvenile Research (IJR) at the University of
Illinois at Chicago (UIC). IJR is a century-old, multimillion-dollar academic
institute providing child and family research, training, and service, employ-
ing 257 academic faculty and support staff. Dr. Bell is also the president and
chief executive (CEO) of Community Mental Health Council & Foundation,
Inc., in Chicago, a large multimillion dollar comprehensive community
mental health center employing 390 social service experts. Over 40 years, he
has published more than 450 articles, chapters, and books on mental health
and authored The Sanity of Survival. He has been interviewed by Ebony,
Jet, Essence, Emerge, New York Times, Chicago Tribune Magazine, People
Magazine, Chicago Reporter, Nightline, ABC News, National Public Radio,
CBS Sunday Morning, the News Hour with Jim Lehrer, the Tom Joyner
Morning Show, Chicago Tonight, and the Today show. A graduate of UIC,
he earned his M.D. from Meharry College in Nashville. In 2011, Dr. Bell re-
ceived the American Psychiatric Association’s annual Solomon Carter Fuller
Award at Institute on Psychiatric Services. He completed his psychiatric
residency in 1974 at the Illinois State Psychiatric Institute/IJR in Chicago.
Patrick Burton, M.Sc., H.Dip., is the executive director of the Centre for
Justice and Crime Prevention (CJCP), a Cape Town–based nongovernmen-
tal organization engaged in the field of social justice and crime prevention,
with a particular focus on children and youth. He has undertaken work
in the security; HIV/AIDS and health; information and communications
technology; and small business sectors. He previously worked for the Na-
tional Department of Provincial and Local Government, as well as to the
National Department of Communications. While at CJCP, Mr. 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 vio-
lence, and intensive work into the extent and nature of school violence in
South Africa and the region. He has undertaken work in Bangladesh, the
Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, India, Malawi, Mozambique,
Namibia, South Africa, South Sudan, and Tanzania. Mr. Burton is a post-
graduate development researcher, having graduated from the University of
the Witwatersrand with a higher diploma in development planning, and
from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (Durban) with an M.S. in develop-
ment studies, with a gender focus.
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Jacquelyn C. Campbell, Ph.D., R.N. (Planning Committee Member), is the
Anna D. Wolf chair and professor at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU)
School of Nursing, with a joint appointment in the Bloomberg School of
Public Health and one of the inaugural Gilman Scholars at JHU. She is
also the national program director of the Robert Wood Johnson Founda-
tion Nurse Faculty Scholars program. Dr. Campbell has been conducting
advocacy policy work and research in the area of violence against women
since 1980, with 12 major federally funded research grants and more than
220 articles and 7 books. She is an elected member of the Institute of Medi-
cine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), and the American
Academy of Nursing as well as chair of the Board of Directors of Futures
without Violence. She served on the Department of Defense (DoD) Task
Force on Domestic Violence and has provided consultation to the Depart-
ment of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Disease Con-
trol and Prevention (CDC), World Health Organization (WHO), and U.S.
Agency for International Development, She received the National Friends of
the National Institute of Nursing Research Research Pathfinder Award, the
Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Award, and the American
Society of Criminology Vollmer Award for advancing justice. Dr. Campbell
co-chaired the Steering Committee for the WHO multi-country study on
Violence Against Women and Women’s Health. 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 Pre-
vention. 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.
Eric F. Dubow, Ph.D., is professor of clinical and developmental psychol-
ogy at Bowling Green State University and an adjunct research scientist
at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. His research
and writings on stress and coping in adolescents were some of the first
to illuminate the role that the child’s coping and family and community
resources play in promoting resilience, while his longitudinal research on
the development of aggression has demonstrated the long-term detrimental
consequences of early aggressiveness in youth. His recent longitudinal stud-
ies of Palestinian and Israeli youth have shown how war violence promotes
both interpersonal violence and posttraumatic stress symptoms in youth ex-
posed to the war violence. Professor Dubow is currently associate editor of
Developmental Psychology and bulletin editor for the International Society
for Research on Aggression. He also participates on National Institutes of
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Health (NIH) review panels for risk and protective factors. He is a member
of the American Psychological Association, Society for Research in Child
Development, Society for Research on Adolescence, and International So-
ciety for Research on Aggression. He obtained his undergraduate degree at
Columbia University and his Ph.D. at UIC.
Jeffrey Fagan, Ph.D., is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law
and professor of epidemiology at Columbia University, and director of
the Center for Crime, Community and Law at Columbia Law School. He
also is a senior scholar at Yale Law School. His research and scholarship
examines policing, the legitimacy of the criminal law, capital punishment,
legal socialization of adolescents, neighborhoods and crime, and juvenile
crime and punishment. He served on the Committee on Law and Justice of
the NAS from 2000 to 2006. From 1996 to 2006, he was a member of the
MacArthur Foundation’s Research Network on Adolescent Development
and Juvenile Justice. 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 Incarcera-
tion at Russell Sage. From 2002 to 2005, he was a Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation Health Policy Research Fellow. He is past editor of the Journal
of Research in Crime and Delinquency, and serves on the editorial boards
of several journals on criminology and law. He is a fellow of the American
Society of Criminology.
Jason Featherstone, director for Surviving Our Streets, director of Violence
Prevention with The Safety Box, and lead founder for the Chaos Theory
organization, is committed to the reduction of street-related violence in the
United Kingdom. Born to Guyanese parents in 1979, Featherstone’s first
home from the hospital was a squat on the Woodberry Down estate, north
London, moving shortly thereafter to a flat in Tottenham. Making the tran-
sition from victim to offender to practitioner, he has a grounded insight into
the world to which so many of our young people succumb. Having grown
up in Tottenham, the area that was the focal point for the UK 2011 riots,
he experienced many of the issues facing the youth of today in inner-city
London. Unfortunately these experiences included the loss of a number of
friends and a cousin to gun and knife violence. The recent London riots hit
very close to home for Featherstone. The footage of Allied Carpets, a lo-
cal landmark, burning to the ground, was a stark reminder of the tensions
that exist in Tottenham and indeed throughout the most deprived areas in
London. Once the violence took root, the transmission from area to area,
inclusive of neighboring communities with gang rivalries, was swift and
fierce. In 2008 he received a commendation from the Home Office Violent
Crime Directorate. He was selected for the pioneering Bravehearts program,
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a Home Office initiative. As 1 of 12 youth leaders selected to take part
in the weeklong development program in the Scottish Black Isles, he was
pushed to his limits in the survival setting and tasked with conceptualizing
new responses to knife and gun violence.
Brian W. Flynn, Ed.D., M.A. (Planning Committee Member) is a consul-
tant, writer, trainer, and speaker specializing in preparation for, response
to, and recovery from, the psychosocial aspects of large-scale emergencies
and disasters. He has served numerous national and international organi-
zations, states, and academic institutions. In addition, he currently serves
as associate director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, and
adjunct professor of psychiatry, department of psychiatry, Uniformed Ser-
vices University of Health Sciences, in Bethesda, Maryland. In 2002, he left
federal service as a rear admiral/assistant surgeon general in the U.S. Public
Health Service. He has directly operated, and supervised the operation of,
the federal government’s domestic disaster mental health program (includ-
ing terrorism), programs in suicide and youth violence prevention, child
trauma, refugee mental health, women’s and minority mental health con-
cerns, and rural mental health. He has served as an advisor to many federal
departments and agencies, states, and national professional organizations.
He is recognized internationally for his expertise in large-scale trauma and
has served as an advisor to practitioners, academicians, and government of-
ficials in many nations. He received his B.A. from North Carolina Wesleyan
College, his M.A. in clinical psychology from East Carolina University, and
his Ed.D. in mental health administration from the University of Massa-
chusetts at Amherst.
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 minor-
ity youth living in poor urban settings. Dr. Gorman-Smith has been or is
now is principal or co–principal investigator on several longitudinal risk
and prevention intervention studies funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver
National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD), Na-
tional Institute on Drug Abuse, CDC, Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration (SAMHSA), and the W.T. Grant Foundation. Dr.
Gorman-Smith has published extensively in areas related to youth violence,
including the relationships among community characteristics, family func-
tioning, and aggression and violence, including partner violence, and the
impact of family-focused preventive interventions. She also serves as senior
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research fellow with the Coalition for Evidence Based Policy, a nonprofit,
nonpartisan organization whose mission is to promote government policy
based on rigorous evidence of program effectiveness. She currently serves
on the board of directors for the Society for Prevention Research, in ad-
dition to her service on other national, state, and university committees.
She served as a visiting scholar at the Joint Center for Poverty Research at
Northwestern University/University of Chicago. Dr. Gorman-Smith received
her Ph.D. in clinical-developmental psychology at UIC.
Madelyn Gould, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a professor in psychiatry and epidemiol-
ogy, and deputy director of research training in child psychiatry at Colum-
bia University. Dr. Gould’s research interests include the epidemiology of
youth suicide and the evaluation of suicide prevention interventions across
the age span. Her participation in U.S. national government commissions
includes the 1978 President’s Commission on Mental Health, the 1989
Secretary of HHS’s Task Force on Youth Suicide, and the Surgeon General’s
1999 National Suicide Prevention Strategy. She contributed to the CDC’s
community response plan for suicide clusters (1988) and recommendations
to optimize media reporting of suicide (1994), and more recently contrib-
uted 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. Gould has a strong commitment to applying
her research to program and policy development.
Tio Hardiman, M.A., director for CeaseFire Illinois and creator of the
Violence Interrupter Initiative, has dedicated his life and career to com-
munity organizing for peace and social change. In 1999, Mr. Hardiman
joined CeaseFire, an award-winning public health model that has been
scientifically proven to reduce shootings and killings. In 2008, under Mr.
Hardiman’s direction, CeaseFire received additional funding from the State
of Illinois to immediately expand from 5 to 15 communities and from 20 to
130 Outreach Workers and Violence Interrupters. Today, CeaseFire has been
replicated in 15 Chicago communities, 7 cities in Illinois, 15 cities nation
wide, England, Iraq, and South Africa. In addition, more than 30 cities and
20 nations concerned about their own levels of shootings and killings have
expressed interest in learning more about the model. The Interrupters docu-
mentary based on Mr. Hardiman’s work has won film festivals across the
nation. The Interrupters was released in theaters across the nation in 2011.
Growing up in Chicago’s notorious Henry Horner Housing Projects, Mr.
Hardiman witnessed firsthand the devastating effect the violence epidemic
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has on a community. From that early exposure, he committed himself to
ending violence in Chicago. Before joining CeaseFire, Mr. Hardiman orga-
nized more than 100 block clubs to strategize community plans for public
safety on behalf of the Chicago Alliance for Neighborhood Safety and held
leadership positions for Bethel New Life and Chicago’s CAPS Program. He
holds a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts from Northeastern University and
a master’s degree in inner city studies.
L. Rowell Huesmann, Ph.D., M.S. (Planning Committee Chair), is the
Amos N. Tversky Collegiate Professor of Psychology and Communication
Studies and director of the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the Uni-
versity of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. 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. This research has included several life
span longitudinal studies showing how the roots of aggressive behavior are
often established in childhood. One particular interest has been investigat-
ing how children learn through imitation and how children’s exposure to
violence in the family, schools, community, and mass media stimulates the
development of their own aggressive and violent behavior over time. He
has conducted longitudinal studies on the effects of exposure to violence
at multiple sites in the United States as well as in Finland, Israel, Palestine,
and Poland. These studies have shown that simply seeing a lot of violence
(political violence, family violence, community violence, media violence) in
childhood changes children’s thinking and perceptions, and increases the
risk of interpersonal aggressive behavior later in life. He has also conducted
research showing that interventions that change children’s beliefs about
the appropriateness of conflict and aggression can be effective in prevent-
ing aggression. In 2005, Dr. Huesmann was the recipient of the American
Psychological Association’s award for Distinguished Lifetime Contributions
to Media Psychology.
Marco Iacoboni, M.D., Ph.D., is a neurologist and neuroscientist originally
from Italy. Currently, he is professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sci-
ences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California,
Los Angeles, and director of the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation labora-
tory of the Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center. Dr. Iacoboni inves-
tigates the neural basis of sensory-motor integration, imitation, and social
learning. In particular, Dr. Iacoboni pioneered the research on the human
mirror neuron system and its role in social behavior and learning, and its
disorders. Dr. Iacoboni’s research has been funded by the NIH and the
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National Science Foundation. He describes the research on mirror neurons
for the general reader in his recent book Mirroring People: The Science of
Empathy and How We Connect with Others.
Patrick W. Kelley, M.D., Dr.P.H., joined the IOM in 2003 as the director of
the Board on Global Health. He has subsequently also been appointed the
director of the Board on African Science Academy Development. Dr. Kelley
has overseen a portfolio of IOM expert consensus studies and convening
activities on subjects as wide ranging as the evaluation of the U.S. emergency
plan for international AIDS relief (PEPFAR); the U.S. commitment to global
health; sustainable surveillance for zoonotic infections; cardiovascular dis-
ease prevention in low- and middle-income countries; interpersonal violence
prevention in low- and middle-income countries; and microbial threats to
health. 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. Kelley served in the U.S. Army for more than 23 years as a physician,
residency director, epidemiologist, and program manager. In his last DoD
position, Dr. Kelley founded and directed the DoD Global Emerging Infec-
tions Surveillance and Response System. This responsibility entailed manag-
ing surveillance and capacity-building partnerships with numerous elements
of the federal government and with health ministries in over 45 developing
countries. He also founded the DoD Accession Medical Standards Analysis
and Research Activity. Dr. Kelley is an experienced communicator having
lectured in English or Spanish in more than 20 countries. He has published
more than 65 scholarly papers, book chapters, and monographs. Dr. Kelley
obtained his M.D. from the University of Virginia and his Dr.P.H. in epide-
miology from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. He
is also board-certified in preventive medicine and public health.
Barry A. Krisberg, Ph.D., is the research and policy director of the Chief
Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at the University of
California, Berkeley, Law School. He is also a lecturer in residence in the
Juris Doctor Program at Berkeley Law and was recently a visiting scholar
at John Jay College in New York City. He is known nationally for his re-
search and expertise on juvenile justice issues and is often called on as a
resource for professionals, foundations, and the media. Dr. Krisberg was
appointed by the legislature to serve on the California Blue Ribbon Com-
mission on Inmate Population Management. He has served on almost all
major statewide task forces on California corrections issues over the past 20
years. He is past president and fellow of the Western Society of Criminology
and was the chair of the California Attorney General’s Research Advisory
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Committee. In 1993 he was the recipient of the August Vollmer Award, the
American Society of Criminology’s most prestigious award. The Jessie Ball
duPont Fund named him the 1999 Grantee of the Year for his outstanding
commitment and expertise in the area of juvenile justice and delinquency
prevention. In 2009, he received special recognition by the Annie E. Casey
Foundation for his contributions to the Juvenile Detention Alternatives
Initiative. Dr. Krisberg was appointed to chair an Expert Panel to investi-
gate the conditions in the California youth prisons. In 2004, he was named
in a consent decree to help develop remedial plans and to monitor many
of the mandated reforms in the California Division of Juvenile Justice. He
has also assisted the Special Litigation Branch of the U.S. Department of
Justice (DOJ) on Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act investiga-
tions. He has been retained by the New York State Office of Children and
F
amily Services to assist in juvenile justice reforms. Dr. Krisberg received
his master’s degree in criminology and a doctorate in sociology, both from
the University of Pennsylvania.
Valerie Maholmes, Ph.D., is the program director for the Child and Family
Processes/Maltreatment and Violence Research Program in the Child Devel-
opment 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.
Specifically, she supports research that addresses the public health, justice,
social services, and educational problems associated with childhood and ad-
olescent exposure to violence, as well as studies examining the trajectories
that may lead to antisocial behavior, conduct problems, and aggression. In
addition, Dr. Maholmes’ program includes a focus on the antecedents and
consequences of child abuse and neglect as well as psychosocial and psycho-
biological factors that shed light on the mechanisms by which child abuse
and neglect result in harmful effects. A goal of her program is to support
the development theory-driven prevention and intervention approaches that
reduce the risk for maltreatment and ameliorate its effects on child develop-
ment. More recently, Dr. Maholmes initiated a funding opportunity calling
for research on children in military families to examine whether there are
long-term consequences of military deployment and reintegration on child
and family functioning. She serves on several federal interagency work-
ing groups addressing cross utting issues related to child and adolescent
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development, vulnerable children in low- to middle-income countries, teen
data violence, bullying, and behavioral and social sciences research. She is
currently the co-chair of the NIH Child Abuse and Neglect Working Group.
Before joining the NICHD, Dr. Maholmes was a faculty member at the
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Yale Child Study Center where she served in numerous capacities, includ-
ing director of research and policy for the School Development Program,
and was named the Irving B. Harris assistant professor of child psychiatry.
In 2003, Dr. Maholmes was awarded the Executive Branch Science Policy
Fellowship sponsored by the Society for Research in Child Development
and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Iris PrettyPaint, Ph.D., is the Native Aspirations project director at Kauffman
& Associates, Inc., headquartered in Spokane, Washington. Native Aspi-
rations is funded by SAMHSA to provide national training and technical
assistance to 65 American Indian and Alaskan Native villages to reduce
violence, bullying, and suicide among youth. The Native Aspirations project
contributes to a nationwide tribal movement toward healing, violence pre-
vention, and positive youth development. Dr. PrettyPaint provides adminis-
trative oversight for an 11-member team to conduct data-driven community
prevention planning, build community coalitions, and the implement evi-
dence, practice, and culture-based interventions. Dr. PrettyPaint has more
than 30 years of experience as an educator, researcher, and evaluator. 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.
Anita Raj, Ph.D., is a professor in the division of global public health,
department of medicine and a senior fellow in the Center for Global
Justice at the University of California, San Diego, as well as an adjunct
professor of medicine at Boston University. Trained as a developmental
psychologist, she has 20 years of experience conducting research on sexual
and reproductive health/HIV/sexually transmitted infections, gender-based
violence and inequities, substance misuse and abuse, and the intersection
of these issues. Her current research is based in North America, Russia,
and South Asia. This work includes qualitative and quantitative research
to support intervention development and implementation, as well as ef-
ficacy and effectiveness trials to evaluate behavioral interventions. Dr. Raj
has served as principal investigator or co-principal investigator on more
than 30 grants from various federal funding agencies, including the NIH,
CDC, SAMHSA, Office of Minority Health, and Packard Foundation; she
has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications
from these efforts. Her research on gender-based violence has focused on
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culturally specific and contextual vulnerabilities to violence among vulner-
able populations for women. She has published research on the intersection
of immigration-related abuse (e.g., threats of deportation, withholding of
documentation papers) with spousal violence against immigrant women
in the United States, as well as the role of immigration laws in reinforcing
this intersection. This work was used to support change of the Violence
Against Women Act to support better protections for non-U.S.-born vic-
tims of gender-based violence, including the development of the U-Visa,
which protects women victims who were in the United States on spousal
dependent visas. Over the past 5 years, Dr. Raj has focused her research
on under tanding girl child marriage (marriage prior to age 18), its inter-
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section with gender-based violence, and its impact on maternal and child
health globally. She has been working with various international organiza-
tions (e.g., the Elders and Girls Not Brides, UNICEF) to increase recog-
nition of this issue as a global public health concern disproportionately
affecting sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia and contributing to issues
of HIV and maternal and infant mortality in these regions. In addition to
her research, Dr. Raj has for the past 20 years been involved with various
governmental committees and nongovernmental and community-based
organizations working and advocating for immigrant rights, gender equity
and violence prevention, and reproductive rights.
John A. Rich, M.D., M.P.H., is professor and chair of health manage-
ment and policy at the Drexel University School of Public Health. He has
been a leader in the field of public health, and his work has focused on
serving one of the nation’s most ignored and underserved populations—
African- merican men in urban settings. In 2006, Dr. Rich was granted a
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acArthur Foundation Fellowship. In awarding this distinction, the Foun-
dation 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. As a primary care doctor at Boston
Medical Center, Dr. Rich created the Young Men’s Health Clinic and initi-
ated the Boston HealthCREW, a program to train inner city young men to
become peer health educators who focus on the health of men and boys
in their communities. In 2009, Dr. Rich was inducted into the IOM. His
recently published book about urban violence, Wrong Place, Wrong Time:
Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men, has drawn critical
acclaim. He earned his Dartmouth A.B. degree in English, his M.D. from
Duke University Medical School, and his M.P.H. from the Harvard School
of Public Health. He completed his internship and residency at the Massa-
chusetts General Hospital and was a fellow in general internal medicine at
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Harvard Medical School. He received an honorary doctor of science degree
from Dartmouth in 2007 and now serves on its board of trustees.
Fariyal Ross-Sheriff, Ph.D., is a graduate professor and the director of Ph.D.
program in social work at Howard University. Her area of specialization is
displaced populations. These populations include two major groups—inter-
nationally: refugees, immigrants, and undocumented migrants, and within
the United States: the homeless and disaster victims. Within displaced
populations Dr. Ross-Sheriff’s work emphasizes women, children, and the
elderly. Dr. Ross-Sheriff has worked extensively with Muslim refugees in
Pakistan to examine the challenges facing refugees and service providers,
and in Afghanistan to facilitate the repatriation and resettlement of refu-
gees. In addition, she has conducted research on the role of women in the
repatriation process. She has conducted training for service providers and
made several presentations at conferences on refugee issues in countries of
first asylum and different aspects of adaptation of refugees and immigrants
to the United States. 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. Her current research focuses on transnational research on women in
post-war situations and living in ultra-poverty. With Dr. R.A. English, she
has developed the M.S.W. degree–level specialization in social work with
displaced populations. She has taught in this specialization area for more
than 20 years.
Gary Slutkin, M.D. (Planning Committee Member), is a physician and epi-
demiologist, an innovator in violence reduction, and the founder/executive
director of Cure Violence (formerly known as CeaseFire), a scientifically
proven, health approach to violence reduction using disease control meth-
ods. Cure Violence has now been statistically validated to reduce shootings
and killings by two independent evaluations conducted by the DOJ and
CDC, respectively, in multiple communities in Chicago and Baltimore. Dr.
Slutkin applied lessons learned from more than a decade fighting epidem-
ics in Africa and Asia to the creation of a public health model to reduce
violence through behavior change and disease control methods. He is an
Ashoka Fellow, a professor of epidemiology and international health at
the University of Illinois at Chicago, a senior advisor to the WHO, and
the 2009 winner of the Search for a Common Ground Award. Dr. Slutkin
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received his M.D. from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medi-
cine, and did his internship and residency at San Francisco General Hospital
(SFGH). He served as chief resident at SFGH and did his infectious disease
fellowship there. He then became director of the Tuberculosis Control for
the City of San Francisco (1981-1985), where he learned infectious disease
control methods, and then moved to Somalia to work on tuberculosis,
cholera and as counterpart to the National Director of Primary Health Care
Program for Somalia (1985-1987). He then worked for the World Health
Organization (1987-1994) reversing epidemics, including being principally
responsible for supporting Uganda’s AIDS program—the only country to
have reversed its AIDS epidemic. Dr. Slutkin was also responsible for setting
up the HIV sentinel surveillance system for monitoring country and global
trends in HIV, running the intervention development unit at WHO, and
setting up the country programs for the 13 countries in the epicenter of the
AIDS epidemic for the WHO Global Program on AIDS. Dr. Slutkin’s work
was featured in Studs Terkel’s Will the Circle Be Unbroken, profiled in
Blocking the Transmission, a New York Magazine cover story by bestselling
author Alex Kotlowitz, and represented in the award-winning documentary
The Interrupters.
Evelyn P. Tomaszewski, M.S.W. (Planning Committee Member), is a se-
nior policy advisor within the Human Rights and International Affairs
Division of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), where
she directs the NASW HIV/AIDS Spectrum Project. The project is a multi
phase, federally funded project based on a training of trainer model that
develops provider capacity—through training, education, and technical
assistance—to better address the clinical practice and policy issues rel-
evant to the range of health and behavioral health issues of living with
HIV/AIDS and co- ccurring chronic illnesses. Ms. Tomaszewski promotes
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the NASW Global HIV/AIDS Initiative in collaboration with domestic
and international groups and agencies, implements capacity and training
needs assessment addressing the social welfare workforce, volunteers, and
psychosocial care providers in sub-Saharan Africa, and serves as techni-
cal advisor in a USAID-funded Twinning Project with the Tanzania Social
Work Associations. She staffs the National Committee on Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual, and Transgender Issues and previously staffed the International
Committee and Women’s Issues Committee. Ms. Tomaszewski has expertise
in policy analysis and implementation addressing gender equity, violence
prevention, and early intervention, and the connection of trauma and risk
for HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections. She has more than
two decades of social work experience as a counselor, advocate, educator,
and program administrator. Ms. Tomaszewski is a member of the IOM
Forum on Global Violence Prevention. She holds a B.S.W. and an M.S.W.
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from West Virginia University, and a graduate certificate in procurement
and contracts management and a certificate in leadership development from
the University of Virginia.
Robert J. 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. Dr.
Ursano has more than 300 publications, is the co-author or editor of 8
books and is editor of Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes
and senior editor of the first Textbook of Disaster Psychiatry (Cambridge
University Press), which was published in 2007. He was the first chair of the
American Psychiatric Association’s Committee on Psychiatric Dimensions
of Disaster. Dr. Ursano chaired the development of the first APA’s Treatment
Guidelines for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Acute Stress Disorder. He
has received the DoD Humanitarian Service Award and the highest award
of the International Traumatic Stress Society, the Lifetime Achievement
Award, for “outstanding and fundamental contributions to understanding
traumatic stress.” He is the recipient of the William C. Porter Award from
the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States.
Jeffrey Victoroff, M.D., conducts two areas of research: behavioral neurol-
ogy and political psychology. With regard to the first career, he studies the
neurobehavioral bases of human aggression and behavioral complications
of traumatic brain injury. He has published in multiple peer-reviewed jour-
nals, is a member of the Research Committee of the American Neuropsy-
chiatric Association, and is a program director of the National Football
League’s Neurologic Care Program. With regard to the second career,
Dr. Victoroff studies individual factors and evolutionary imperatives that
may predispose to violent extremism. He serves on the UN Roster of Ter-
rorism Experts and has edited two books on this subject: Tangled Roots:
Social and Psychological Factors in the Genesis of Terrorism (2006) and,
with Arie Kruglanski, Psychology of Terrorism: Classic and Contemporary
Insights (2009). His latest work for the U.S. Government’s Strategic Multi-
layer Assessment Program was titled Applied Evolutionary Neurobehavior
to Reduce Participation in al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula. Dr. Victoroff
received his B.A. magna cum laude in great books from St. John’s College,
his master’s degree in social science from the University of Chicago, and
his M.D. with honors from Case Western Reserve University School of
Medicine. He completed his residency in psychiatry at Harvard’s McLean
Hospital and his residency in neurology at the Harvard Longwood Medical
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Area neurology program. He completed his fellowship in neurobehavior at
the University of California, Los Angeles. Since then he has been a member
of the faculty of the University of Southern California Keck School of Medi-
cine, where he now serves as associate professor of clinical neurology and
psychiatry. He is board-certified both in neurology and in psychiatry, and
certified by the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties in behavioral
neurology and neuropsychiatry.
Charlotte Watts, Ph.D. (Planning Committee Member), is a professor in
social and mathematical epidemiology and founding director of the Gen-
der Violence and Health Centre (GVHC) at the London School of Hygiene
and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). An internationally renowned expert on
Violence Against Women, and on Gender and HIV, she has more than 15
years of experience in HIV and violence research. Originally trained as a
mathematician, with further training in epidemiology and public health,
Dr. Watts brings a unique, multidisciplinary perspective to the complex
challenge of addressing women’s vulnerability to violence and to HIV, with
a strong commitment to drawing upon the multidisciplinary expertise of
GVHC to conduct rigorous, action-oriented research to inform change. Dr.
Watts has held several senior research and advisory positions, including
acting as a core research team member for the WHO Multi-Country Study
on Women’s Health and Domestic Violence; chair of the Expert Working
Group to Assess the Global Burden of Inter-personal Violence; advisor to
the UK Prevalence Study of the Mistreatment and Abuse of Older People;
and chair of the Public Health Benefits Working Group of the Rockefeller
Foundation Microbicide Initiative. She has served on several WHO Expert
Consultations on HIV, on violence against women, and on microbicides,
and was Track C co-chair of the Microbicides 2006 conference. She regu-
larly gives presentations at national and international meetings, and at
LSHTM teaches Ph.D. and M.Sc. students.
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. Her research explores the causes and
consequences of adolescent aggression, how it varies across and depends on
contexts, and how it might be prevented. Most broadly, her work examines
the ways in which community institutions and processes, as well as more
microlevel and sometimes ephemeral dynamics, shape violent behavior. Her
long-term goal is to clarify how structural, cultural, and situational factors
intersect to produce violence and America’s responses to this violence. She
is also very interested in translating research for policy and practice so that
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knowledge necessary for solving complex problems actually transfers. She
is the 2008 recipient of the Society for Research on Adolescence Young
Investigator Award. She was honored at the 13th annual Strategies Against
Violence Everywhere (SAVE) awards in 2009 with the Les Wright Youth
Advocacy Award. In 2010, she received the College of Education and Hu-
man Ecology’s Dean’s Distinguished Service Award for her devotion to com-
munity service in Columbus. She received the 2010 Fire and Focus Award
as well. In 2011, she was honored as “Woman of the Year” by the I’m
Every Woman National Expo. Professor Wilkinson earned her Ph.D. from
the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, her M.A. in criminal
justice from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and her B.A. in sociology
from Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa.
Jamil Zaki, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of psychology at Stanford
University. His research focuses on the cognitive and neural bases of social
behavior, and in particular on how people understand each other’s emotions
(empathic accuracy), why they conform to each other (social influence),
and why they choose to help each other (altruism). He received his B.A. in
cognitive neuroscience from Boston University, and his Ph.D. in psychology
from Columbia University.
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