Events

VACS webinar series: Data, action and the intersection between VAC + VAW

Key speakers:


Join the SVRI in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Together for Girls in this two-part 90 minute webinar series. One webinar will be hosted for and focused on Latin America and the Caribbean and the second on the Africa region.

In building awareness of the Violence against Children and Youth Surveys (VACS) data availability and application, we will demonstrate how VACS data can be a resource to answer critical questions around violence against children and violence against women in global contexts.

These webinars will provide an overview of the VACS, discuss how VACS can support global research on intersections between VAC and VAW, particularly among early-career researchers, and explore how to use VACS to translate data into action.

Event details

Date
28th June 2023
Location
https://bit.ly/429akt9

Speakers

Francis Annor CDC

Francis Annor, PhD, is an Epidemiologist in the Division of Violence Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He serves as Data Team Lead for the Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys in the Field Epidemiology and Prevention Branch.

Manuela Balliet Ahogo

Manuela Balliet Ahogo is a Regional Research and Policy Advisor for Sub-Saharan Africa at Together for Girls. Manuela provides VACS country support, research project management and technical support to research partners in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Laura Chiang, CDC

Laura Chiang, MA, is an Epidemiologist in the Division of Violence Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She serves as Implementation Team Lead for the Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys in the Field Epidemiology and Prevention Branch.

Bothaina Eltigani

Bothaina Eltigani is a PhD Candidate in Social Intervention & Policy Evaluation at the University of Oxford. Her doctoral research focuses on examining the relationship between climate change and the risk of experiencing interpersonal violence among adolescent girls in Southern Africa.

Begoña Fernandez

Begoña Fernandez is the Director of Data and Evidence at Together for Girls. Together for Girls connects partners around a common cause: To end violence against children, with special attention to sexual violence. At Together for Girls, Begoña leads TfG’s data and research efforts and supports the partnership’s data-to-action process in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Madison Little

Madison Little is a PhD Candidate in Social Intervention & Policy Evaluation at the University of Oxford. His doctoral research examines the effectiveness of packaged cash-plus interventions and the combined impact of INSPIRE provisions in reducing violence victimisation among children and adolescents in Southern Africa.

Stephanie Miedema

Stephanie Miedema, PhD, is a Health Scientist in the Division of Violence Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She works on the Implementation Team in the Field Epidemiology and Prevention Branch, supporting implementation of the Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys.

Viani Picchetti

Viani Picchetti, PhD, is an Epidemiologist in the Division of Violence Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She serves as Epidemiologist and Data POC for the Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys in the Field Epidemiology and Prevention Branch.

Andres Villaveces

Andrés Villaveces, MD, is a physician and epidemiologist working as Senior Scientist on the Violence Against Children Surveys at the Division of Violence Prevention, Centers for Disease control and Prevention. He has over 26 years of experience working in this field globally.

Boladé Hamed Banougnin

Boladé Hamed Banougnin is a Postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town. He is a statistical researcher with expertise in data processing, cleaning, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination for large-scale surveys and a census. He has been developing expertise on advanced statistical methods including econometric evaluation of socio-economic programs and machine learning.

Tatiana Moreno

Tatiana Moreno is a Ph.D. in Education candidate at the Universidad de Los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia). She holds a Master's of Clinical Psychology. She holds a Bachelors degree in psychology. Her research focuses on trauma, early childhood education, emotional regulation, and developing and evaluating child abuse prevention programs and policies.

Joaquín Daniel Ramírez Cabarca

Joaquín Daniel Ramírez Cabarca, Msc Economics at the Universidad de Los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia). Along with Ms. Moreno he is in the Fellowship Program of the Research Center IMAGINA at the University of Los Andes.

Africa region

28 June at 9h ATL / 15h SAST