Speaker:
Gary Slutkin, Founder, Cure Violence Global
Title:
The End of Violence - How do we do that?
Abstract:
TBA
Speaker Bio:
Gary Slutkin is a physician and epidemiologist formerly of the World Health Organization, the Founder and CEO of Cure Violence, and an innovator in epidemic management, public health, behavior change, and data-based approaches to local and global problems.
He led or co-led efforts to reverse epidemics of tuberculosis and cholera in 40 refugee camps, led the efforts to start the national AIDS programs with the 13 countries in the epicenter of the epidemic in central and East Africa and, led World Health Organization’s efforts to reverse the AIDS epidemic in Uganda, the only country to successfully reverse its AIDS epidemic at the time.
After 10 years abroad, Dr. Slutkin returned home to the U.S. and shifted his focus to violence, seeing it as an epidemic process. He is credited with having fully revealed the scientific and practical links for seeing and treating violence as a standard health epidemic. In the year 2000 he founded Cure Violence which has achieved 40% to 70% drops in violence in communities around the world using these methods. The approach has also been successfully adapted to curtail political violence, election violence, and gender-based violence in countries around the world.
Location:
In person: Chambers Hall, 600 Foster Street, Lower Level
Remote option: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/93101362874
About the Speaker Series:
Wednesdays@NICO is a vibrant weekly seminar series focusing broadly on the topics of complex systems, networks, and artificial intelligence. It brings together attendees ranging from graduate students to senior faculty who span all of the schools across Northwestern, from applied math to sociology to biology and every discipline in-between. Please visit: https://bit.ly/WedatNICO for information on future speakers.
Co-Sponsor:
This speaker is co-sponsored with CORNERS.
Cost: Free
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