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The Domestic Violence Crisis
Mobilizing the Public and Private Sectors

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THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS: Mobilizing the Public and Private Sectors
Presented jointly with The Huffington Post

According to the CDC, nearly 29 million U.S. women and 16 million U.S. men have experienced severe physical violence by an intimate partner at some point in their lifetime. Most of those experiences occur before the age of twenty-five. The evidence is clear that domestic violence takes a physical and emotional toll on individuals, families and communities. Those exposed both directly and indirectly are at a greater risk of mental health disorders, infectious and chronic diseases and death. And the global annual cost in lost productivity, health care, and law enforcement is estimated to be in the trillions. This Forum event, held during National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, explored the many dimensions of domestic violence, the need for evidence-based prevention strategies and the role that the public and private sectors need to play to shift the conversation from intervention to preventive action. The panel included thought leaders and experts in public health and research coming together to advance the prevention of domestic violence.

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Part of: Policy Controversies.

Presented Jointly with The Huffington Post

Background Articles

  • Preventing Domestic Violence Is Everyone’s Business
    Op/Ed by Dean Michelle Williams on The Huffington Post
  • Saving Promise
  • No More
  • Violence Prevention
    CDC
  • I Walked Away From a Corporate Career to Break the Silence
    LY Marlow's piece in Ms. Magazine online

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Moderator

Melissa Jeltsen
Senior Reporter, The Huffington Post

Expert Participants

Anke Hoeffler
Research Officer, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, and Consultant, Copenhagen Consensus Center

L.Y. Marlow
Founder of Saving Promise, a national domestic violence prevention organization

James Mercy
Director, Division of Violence Prevention, CDC

Michelle A. Williams
Dean of the Faculty, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Angelopoulos Professor in Public Health and International Development, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Kennedy School

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