2007-2008 Seminar Series
Thursday, September 27, 2007
“The Boston Data Project: a Model for Multilevel Surveillance at the Local Level”
Deb Azrael, PhD, Associate Director, Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center, Harvard School of Public Health
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Thursday, October 18, 2007
“Quiet Storm: Dynamics of Recent Gang Violence in Boston”
David Hureau, Research Associate, Program in Criminal Justice & Management, KSG
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Thursday, November 8, 2007
“Building the Movement to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse”
Jetta Bernier, MPsych, Executive Director, Massachusetts Citizens for Children, Inc. Chair, Massachusetts Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Partnership
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Thursday, December 13, 2007
“Early alcohol use among children exposed to violence”
Emily F. Rothman, ScD, Assistant Professor Boston University School of Public Health
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
“Youth Violence in America: What’s Dueling Got to Do with It?”
Deborah Prothrow-Stith, MD
Dir. of Programs, Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Ctr, Henry Pickering Walcott Prof. of the Practice of Public Health
Associate Dean for Diversity, Harvard School of Public Health
Click here for a pdf of the presentation.
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
“Victimization of Sexual Minority Youth”
Heather Corliss, MPH, PhD, Instructor in Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine, Children’s Hospital
Click here for pdf of presentation.
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Thursday, March 20, 2008
“Men’s violence perpetration: intersections with sexual health and STI/HIV”
Michele Decker, ScD candidate; Assistant Director, Violence Against Women Prevention Practice, Department of Society, Human Development & Health, Harvard School of Public Health
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Thursday, April 3, 2008
Co-sponsored by Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center Community Partners
**Seminar will be held in Kresge, G-3**
“There ought to be a law” (Screening of the Documentary Film)
12:20-1:20PM Film Screening
1:20-2PM Q&A Session with filmmakers Anita Clearfield, Shoshana Hoose, Geoffrey Leighton, and Cathie Whittenburg, Director of the New England Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
“Nativity, Immigration, and Suicidality”
Guilherme Borges, ScD
Visiting Scientist, Harvard Injury Control Research Center
National Institute of Psychiatry, Mexico
Professor, Dept of Health Care, Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM)