Global Violence Prevention

P.O. Box 152
Cummington, MA 01026
USA

Global Violence Prevention is a network of 200 researchers and practitioners of violence prevention, working to bring U.S. resources to low- and middle-income countries for evidence-based prevention of self-directed, interpersonal, and collective violence. The project supports the ideas and methods in WHO's World report on violence and health that declared violence a preventable public health issue and which arrived at the remarkable conclusion that people can use scientific principles to make the necessary changes to prevent violence.

This project has built a broad coalition of individual supporters from organizations who endorse the work. In 2007-2008, Global Violence Prevention has:

  • Helped to create a workshop held in June 2007 by the Board of Global Health at the Institute of Medicine; IOM published a summary of the meeting: Violence Prevention in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, Finding a Place on the Global Agenda.
    For more information, please visit: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12016
  • Disseminated thousands of advocacy materials, such as brochures and DVDs featuring experts in violence prevention.
  • Organized a meeting in concert with Fetzer Institute at which stakeholders discussed how to elevate the issue of preventing violence. The two organizations in June 2008 issued Using Science to Prevent Violence, a report from the meeting. The report can be found here: http://www.fetzer.org/WhatsNew.aspx?PageID=WhatsNew&NavID=1
  • Created and moderated a US congressional briefing on June 16, 2008, sponsored by two Senators and one Congresswoman on the topic of Violence as a global health issue: what do we know about preventing violence?
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VPA focal person

Ms. Frances Henry
franceshenry@earthlink.net

Fran Henry created and directs Global Violence Prevention, a project of the Pan American Health and Education Foundation which advances science-based prevention of violence in low- and middle-income countries.

She founded and directed for 13 years Stop It Now!, an organization that uses science-based methods of public health to prevent the sexual abuse of children: http://www.stopitnow.org

Ms. Henry's previous work includes owning a management consulting company (ten years) and directing presidential (Gerald Ford) and gubernatorial (Francis W. Sargent-Massachusetts) commissions for women. She served as staff to the U.S. Commission on International Women's Year.

Ms. Henry received her undergraduate degree from the New School for Social Research and her graduate degree from Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. As a volunteer, she chaired the board of the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, U.S. from 2000-2004.

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