Professor Devries will discuss research she has conducted over her career, including producing the first estimates on the global prevalence of intimate partner violence against women, conducting randomised trials of interventions to prevent violence against women and children, and the challenges inherent in conducting this research in a safe and ethical way.

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Speaker bio: Karen Devries is a professor of social epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She leads the Child Protection Research Group and uses epidemiological methods to understand violence against children, adolescents, women, and child protection. She currently collaborates with international partners in Uganda, Tanzania, Latvia, the United Kingdom, the United States and other countries, and she has published widely in international journals. Her work has been cited more than 50,000 times and has informed global policy, including WHO violence prevention guidance.

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