About this episode

Professor Karen Devries discusses global statistics on violence against children and women and interventions to reduce violence in schools.

Professor Karen Devries is a professor of social epidemiology at the London school of hygiene and tropical medicine. Karen uses epidemiological methods to understand and reduce violence against children, adolescents and women. In this episode we will discuss the global statistics on violence against children and women and interventions to reduce violence in schools. Karen talks about how to do this work in the correct way, taking care of participants and also the researchers.

People in this episode

Host: Delan Devakumar

Guest: Karen Devries

Topics covered

• violence against children
• social epidemiology
• interventions in schools
• violence against women
• research ethics

Keywords

• violence
• children
• women
• epidemiology
• interventions
• research ethics
• adolescents

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

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