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COMMITTEE ON THE ASSESSMENT OF FAMILY VIOLENCE INTERVENTIONS
PATRICIA KING (Chair),
Georgetown University Law Center
JACQUELYN C. CAMPBELL,
The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
DAVID S. CORDRAY,
Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies
DIANA J. ENGLISH,
Office of Children's Administration Research, Department of Social and Health Services, State of Washington
JEFFREY A. FAGAN,
School of Public Health, Columbia University
RICHARD J. GELLES,
Family Violence Research Program, University of Rhode Island
JOEL GREENHOUSE,
Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
THE HONORABLE SCOTT HARSHBARGER,
Office of the Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
DARNELL F. HAWKINS,
Departments of African-American Studies and Sociology, University of Illinois
THE HONORABLE CINDY LEDERMAN,
Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, Miami
ELIZABETH McLOUGHLIN,
San Francisco Injury Center, San Francisco General Hospital
ELI NEWBERGER,
Family Development Program, Children's Hospital, Boston
JOY D. OSOFSKY,
Louisiana State University Medical Center
HELEN RODRIGUEZ-TRIAS,
Pediatrician/Consultant in Health Programming, Brookdale, California
SUSAN SCHECHTER,
School of Social Work, University of Iowa
MICHAEL E. SMITH,
School ofLaw, University of Wisconsin, Madison
BILL WALSH,
Investigations Unit, Youth and Family Crimes Bureau, Dallas Police Department
CAROLE L. WARSHAW,
Cook County Hospital, Chicago
ROSALIE WOLF,
Institute on Aging, The Medical Center of Central Massachusetts
JACK P. SHONKOFF (Liaison),
Board on Children and Families
CATHY SPATZ WlDOM (Liaison),
Committee on Law and Justice, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
ROSEMARY A. CHALK, Study Director
NANCY CROWELL, Staff Officer
KATHERINE DARKE, Research Assistant
SEBLE MENKIR, Research Assistant
NIANI SUTARDJO, Project Assistant
BOARD ON CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
SHELDON H. WHITE (Chair),
Department of Psychology, Harvard University
JACK P. SHONKOFF (Vice Chair),
Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University
JOMILLS H. BRADDOCK, II,
Department of Sociology, University of Miami
DAVID V.B. BRITT,
Children's Television Workshop, New York City
LARRY BUMPASS,
Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin
PEGGY DAVIS,
Clinical Law Center, New York University
FERNANDO A. GUERRA,
San Antonio Metropolitan Health District, Texas
BERNARD GUYER,
Department of Maternal and Child Health, The Johns Hopkins University
ALETHA C. HUSTON,
Department of Human Development and Family Life, University of Kansas
RAY MARSHALL,
LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas
ROBERT MICHAEL,
Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago
PAUL NEWACHECK,
Institute of Health Policy Studies and Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco
JULIUS B. RICHMOND,
Department of Social Medicine, Harvard University Medical School
TIMOTHY M. SANDOS,
TCI Central, Inc., Denver, Colorado
LISBETH B. SCHORR,
Harvard Project on Effective Services, Harvard University
CAROLE SIMPSON,
ABC News, Washington, D.C.
DEBORAH STIPEK,
Graduate School of Education, University of California, Los Angeles
DIANA TAYLOR,
Women's Health Program, Department of Family Health Care Nursing, University of California, San Francisco
GAIL WILENSKY,
Project Hope, Bethesda, Maryland
JOEL J. ALPERT (Liaison),
Council, Institute of Medicine
ANN L. BROWN (Liaison),
Commission on Behavioral and Social Science and Education
RUTH T. GROSS (Liaison),
Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine
DEBORAH A. PHILLIPS, Director
ANNE BRIDGMAN, Program Officer for Communications
DRUSILLA BARNES, Administrative Associate