News & Events

January 28, 2015 – “The Strategic Importance for Public Health of Preventing Violence Against Children”

College of Public Health Grand Rounds

Maurer College of Public Health, 3013

Wednesday, January 28, 2015 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

“The Strategic Importance for Public Health of Preventing Violence Against Children.”

James Mercy, Ph.D
James Mercy, Ph.D

James A. Mercy, PhD
Acting Director, Division of Violence Prevention
Centers for Disease Prevention and Control

Objectives:

1. To describe the magnitude and nature of violence against children in the U.S.
2. To share the range of mental and physical health consequences of exposure to violence against children
3. To discuss policy and programmatic actions needed to prevent violence against children

JAMES A. MERCY is the Acting Director of the Division of Violence Prevention in the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He received his PhD in sociology from Emory University in Atlanta in 1982. After his graduation, Dr. Mercy began working at CDC as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer in a newly formed activity to examine violence as a public health problem. Over the past three decades he has helped to develop the public health approach to violence. A frequently published author with over 200 publications, Dr. Mercy’s work has spanned the areas of child maltreatment, youth and intimate partner violence, homicide, suicide, and firearm injuries. He also served as a co-editor of the World Report on Violence and Health prepared by the World Health Organization and served on the Editorial Board of the United Nation’s Secretary General’s Study of Violence Against Children. Most recently he’s been working on a global partnership, called Together for Girls, with UNICEF, PEPFAR, WHO, and others to end violence against children.

Watch Recording

Leave a Reply