Domestic violence in Mumbai: Responding, researching and preventing
LSHTM Faculty of Public Health and Policy Seminar Series
The webinar will discuss the challenges of evaluating programmes that aim to address domestic violence, primarily in urban informal settlements.
Using examples from recent work and work in progress, it will examine the interconnected nature of violence and the place of research in services to support survivors. It will discuss current efforts to evaluate the success of community mobilisation to prevent domestic violence and the difficulties of developing programme theory and doing theory-driven evaluation.
Dr Nambusi Kyegombe, Associate Professor of Social Science and Global Health will be chairing.
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Professor David Osrin, UCL
David Osrin is Professor of Global Health at the UCL Institute for Global Health and a Wellcome Senior Research Fellow in Clinical Science. Trained as a paediatrician, he has spent the last 23 years researching approaches to improving population health, primarily in South Asia. His main interest is in community mobilisation for women’s and children’s health, currently in informal urban settlements in Mumbai. He teaches on urban health at UCL and is particularly interested in complex social interventions to improve health, with a focus on prevention of violence against women and girls and public engagement around health issues.
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