Confronting Gender-based Violence Symposium

Post Date: 
2011-12-01

In December 2011, CCGHE and the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing hosted an event to launch a distance education course for clinicians focused on the prevention and management of gender-based violence. A live video link was established between Johns Hopkins Univeristy, Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, and Makerere College of Health Sciences in Uganda.

An overview of the challenges posed to heathcase providers of gender-based violence (GBV) survivors was provided by two global leaders on GBV: Dr. Daniela Ligiero, Senior Advisor for the White House Office of Global AIDS Coordinator, provided a passionate and informative overview of the burden of gender-based violence, as well as a review of new US Government programs to address this issue. Dr. Jackie Campbell of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, provided a comprehensive overview of the recent data on the relationship between GBV and multiple health issues. 

This session was designed to highlight the launch of a new course for healthcare providers in resource-limited settings. Course Director Dr. Nancy Glass is herself a global leader and expert in GBV. She has designed a 7-week interactive distance education course for physicians, nurses, social workers and other healthcare providers. The course was offered free to the first 50 eligible participants, with support from My Two Sons Fund. The objective is that providers who complete this course will be equipped to initiate new and improved programs in their own institutions to better prevent and treat the health issues of GBV. This course was then converted to a self-paced course and opened to CCGHE website visitors.