Nicholas Bala
Kingston, Ontario, Canada |
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Alexander Butchart
Geneva, Switzerland |
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Nicholas Bala has been a Professor at the Faculty of Law at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada, since 1980, and was a Visiting Professor at McGill, Duke and the University of Calgary. He teaches Family and Children's Law, and has won teaching awards at the Faculty of Law at Queen's University in 1992 and 1998. He is presently Associate Dean at the Faculty of Law. (more...)
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Dr. Alexander Butchart is the Prevention of Violence Coordinator, in the Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention, at the World Health Organization. His responsibilities include coordinating the Global Campaign for Violence Prevention, the development of policy for the prevention of interpersonal violence, preparation of guidelines for the prevention of specific types of interpersonal violence, and the coordination of research into various aspects of interpersonal violence and its prevention. (more...)
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Alberto Concha-Eastman
Washington, D.C., USA |
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Peter Jaffe
London, Ontario, Canada
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Dr Concha-Eastman is the Regional Advisor for Violence and Injury Prevention in the Pan American Health Organization, Washington DC, USA. His duties involve cooperation with Member States in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of national and/or municipal plans, programs or projects to reduce intentional and unintentional injuries and their consequences. Particular emphasis is placed on underprivileged countries. (more...)
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Peter Jaffe is Professor, Academic Director, at the Centre for Research on Violence Against Women and Children, Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario. Peter Jaffe is also Founding Director for the Centre for Children and Families, in the Justice System of the London Family Court Clinic. ( more...) |
Marcellina Mian
Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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Bruce Perry
Houston, Texas, USA |
A graduate of McGill University in Montreal, Marcellina Mian is a general paediatrician who has been active since 1975 in the medical and psychosocial assessment of children suspected of being abused. She was the Director of a multidisciplinary child advocacy team, The Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect (SCAN) Program at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, from 1984 to 1998, and is still a member of that team. She is currently the Hospital's Director of Undergraduate Medical Education. Dr. Mian is a Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto. (more...)
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Dr. Perry is the Senior Fellow of the Child Trauma Academy, a not-for-profit organization which promotes innovations in service, research and education in child maltreatment and childhood trauma (www.ChildTrauma.org). Over the last 15 years, Dr. Perry has been an active teacher, clinician and researcher in children's mental health and the neurosciences, holding a variety of academic positions. ( more...) |
Elizabeth Podnieks
Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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Nancy Reynolds
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
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Dr. Podnieks received the Order of Canada for her work on elder abuse and has made it her life work. She is a professor at Ryerson University in Toronto in the School of Nursing. Her 21 years in nursing made her aware of the need to protect and preserve the dignity of senior citizens. (more...)
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Ms. Reynolds is an Assistant Deputy Minister in Alberta Children's Services, currently on secondment from government to establish the new Alberta Centre for Child, Family and Community Research, a not-for-profit research centre. (more...)
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Richard Sobsey
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
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Leslie Tutty
Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
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Dr. Dick Sobsey is the Director of the JP Das Developmental Disabilities Centre at the University of Alberta, where he also serves as a Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology and in the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre. He is the author of more than 200 books, chapters, and articles related to human services and people with disabilities. (more...)
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Dr. Leslie Tutty is a full professor with the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary where she teaches courses in both clinical social work methods and research. (more...)
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Jane Ursel
Manitoba, Canada |
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Dr. Jane Ursel is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Manitoba and the Director of RESOLVE a tri-provincial research network focusing on family and interpersonal violence. RESOLVE has offices at the universities of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Calgary, in Canada. (more...) |
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