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Prevention and Management of Gender-based Violence
POSTED December 11, 2011 - 3:18pm | POSTED BY Bob Bollinger
On Friday 9 December 2011 the CCGHE, in partnership with the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, hosted an event to launch our new distance education course for clinicians focused on the prevention and management of gender-based violence. A live video link was established between Hopkins, Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia and Makerere College of Health Sciences in Uganda.
We were very fortunate to have two of the global leaders in this area provide an overview of the importance and challenges of gender-based violence (GBV), for all of us caring for patients anywhere in the world. Dr. Daniela Ligiero, Senior Advisor for the White House Office of Global AIDS Coordinator, provided a passionate and informative overview of the burden of gender-based violence, as well as a review of new US Government programs to address this issue. Dr. Jackie Campbell of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, provided a comprehensive overview of the recent data on the relationship between GBV and multiple health issues. Click here to view the recorded webcast of Friday's innaugural session.
This session on Friday was also designed to highlight the launch of our new course for health care providers in resource-limited settings. The Course Director, Dr. Nancy Glass, is herself a global leader and expert in GBV. She has designed an outstanding, 7-week, interactive distance education course for physicians, nurses, social workers and other health care providers. The course will be offered for free to the first 50 eligible participants, due to the generous support of "My Two Sons Fund". Our objective is that providers who complete this course will be empowered to initiate new and improved programs in their own institutions to better prevent and treat the health issues of GBV. We have already received tremendous interest in this course from many countries. We hope that this will be the first of many opportunities for providers to participate in this course. Anyone interested in this course should contact Alex Douglas (alexendra.w.douglas@gmail.com) or Dr. Glass (nglass1@son.jhmi.edu).
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Bob Bollinger wrote on December 27, 2011 - 11:19am:
This article (click here) has a good interview with Dr. Nancy Glass, Director of our new GBV course. She provides some important background information about why such training is needed for health care workers.
In addition, this recent alarming CDC report (click here) demonstrates that training about prevention and treatment of gender-based violence is a particularly critical need in the United States. Among other very disturbing data, the 2010 survey reports that every 2-3 seconds in the US there is another victim of intimate partner violence.
Bob Bollinger MD, MPH
Bob Bollinger wrote on April 19, 2012 - 11:30am:
As part of the Global Health course for Hopkins medical students, we recently hosted a clinical case conference discussion of gender-based violence in the US and Ethiopia. This faculty led discussion was recorded and available here.
Bob Bollinger MD, MPH