London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Trigger warning: This session will deal with issues including gender and sexual violence and abuse. 

This 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence introductory event will begin with an introduction of the organising LSHTM centres: Centre for Maternal, Adolescent, Reproductive, & Child Health (MARCH) and Gender Violence and Health Centre (GVHC). The speaker will then give an overview of what gender-based violence is and why it is important to public health, discussing current events in gender-based violence, and the research base on what we know about ‘What Works’ to prevent gender-based violence.   

Programme  

12.50 - 13.20: Introduction to MARCH and GVHC 

Professor Susannah Mayhew, co-Director of MARCH and Professor in Health Policy, Systems and Reproductive Health, LSHTM. 

Susannah Mayhew is co-Director of the Maternal Adolescent Reproductive and Child Health Centre and Professor in Health Policy, Systems and Reproductive Health at LSHTM. Her research interests are in policy analysis, policy implementation, governance and accountability research – including community engagement; health systems and systems integration research (including in epidemic-response); and reproductive healths and rights.  

Dr. Ana Maria Buller, Director of GVHC and Associate Professor in Social Science, LSHTM.

Ana Maria Buller is the Director of the Gender, Violence and Health Centre and Associate Professor in Social Sciences at LSHTM. She has 18 years’ experience conducting mixed methods social science research, in the areas of gender-based violence, social norms change and women’s economic and social empowerment.  

Screening of videos 

• MARCH 10 Year Challenge  
• The Founding of GVHC  

13.20 - 13.45: What is gender-based violence? Definitions, prevalence and interventions 

Dr. Ana Maria Buller, Director of GVHC and Associate Professor in Social Science, LSHTM.

Ana Maria Buller is the Director of the Gender, Violence and Health Centre and Associate Professor in Social Sciences at LSHTM. She has 18 years’ experience conducting mixed methods social science research, in the areas of gender-based violence, social norms change and women’s economic and social empowerment.  

13.45 – 13.50: What’s coming next, closing remarks 

 

This hybrid session will be broadcast live, and a recording will be available after the event on this page.