Seminar Archives 2006-2007
"An Advocate's Perspective on how the Juvenile Justice System Responds to Youth Violence"
Lael Chester, JD, Executive Director, Citizens for Juvenile Justice
Thursday, February 16th, 2006
"Violence Prevention as a Strategic Approach for Improving the Physical and Mental Health of Human Populations"James Mercy, PhD, Associate Director for Science, Division of Science, Division of Violence Prevention, CDC
Thursday, March 16th, 2006
"Suicide Prevention: A National Imperative On the Move"
Jerry Reed, MSWExecutive Director, Suicide Prevention Action Network USA
Thursday, April 20th, 2006
"Strategies to Reduce Illegal Gun Trafficking"
Jon Vernick, JD, MPH, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Thursday, May 11th, 2006
"Event Dynamics and the Role of Third Parties in Urban Youth Violence"
Deanna L. Wilkinson, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept. of Human Development & Family Science
College of Human Ecology, Ohio State University
Friday, August 18th, 2006
"Injury Surveillance"
Victoria Espitia-Hardeman, MSc. Epidemiologist at the Division of Violence Prevention
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC
Thursday, September 21, 2006
"While You Were Sleeping: Success Stories in Injury and Violence Prevention"
David Hemenway, Ph.D., Professor of Health Policy, Harvard School of Public Health
Director, Harvard Injury Control Research Center
For a copy of the presentation, please click on the Hemenway Seminar
link.
Thursday, October 19, 2006
"Beyond Bruising: How Violence & Hostility May Impact Lung Disease"
Rosalind Wright, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept of Society, Human Development & Health
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
For a copy of the presentation, please click on the Wright Seminar
link
Monday, November 13, 2006
"Lethal Politics: Tracking Gun Talk in America"
Joan Burbick, PhD
Professor, English and American Studies at Washington State University
Author of Gun Show Nation: Gun Culture and American Democracy, just published by the New Press. Previous publications include: Rodeo Queens and the American Dream, Healing the Republic, and Thoreau's Alternative History
For a copy of the presentation, please click on the Burbick Seminar link
Thursday, November 16, 2006
"Why it is time for a public health approach to preventing suicide"
Matthew Miller, MD, ScD, Assistant Professor, Dept of Health Policy & Management
Associate Director, Harvard Injury Control Research Center
Co-sponsored by the Mental Health Student Consortium
For a copy of the presentation, please click on the Miller Seminar link
Thursday, December 14, 2006
"Remote Control (an interactive theater piece acting to prevent sexual assault & partner violence)"
Deana's Educational Theater
"Stopping the Flow of Guns to Criminals"
Daniel Webster, MPH, ScD, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Co-Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research
Thursday, February 15, 2007
"Risk factors for PTSD among Primary Care Patients"
Jane Liebschutz, MD, MPH, FACP , Assistant Professor of Medicine, Social and
Behavioral Sciences, Boston University School of Medicine and Public Health
Boston Medical Center, Director, Preventive Medicine Residency, Associate Director, General Internal Medicine Fellowship
For a copy of the presentation, click on the Liebschutz Seminar link
Thursday, March 15, 2007
"Violence in Transition: Some Reflections on the State of Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid South Africa"
Graeme Simpson, Director, Country Programs Unit
International Center for Transitional Justice
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Impaired Driving Policy in the U.S. and Canada: A Tale of Two Countries
Linda Degutis, DrPH, MSN, Associate Professor of Surgery (Emergency Medicine) & Public Health
Research Director, Emergency Medicine, Yale Center for Public Health Preparedness
Yale University, Section of Emergency Medicine
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Action Research for Crime Prevention and Control: Research Can Make a Difference
Lois Felson Mock , Senior Social Science Analyst, National Institute of Justice