This episode was recorded on April 23rd, 2020, to raise awareness for the effects of Covid lockdown on domestic violence. Covid’s impact on the safety of women and children in abusive households continues to grow to this day, almost 1 year later.
In this series on healthcare and social disparities, Dr. Jill Wener, a board-certified Internal Medicine specialist, meditation expert, and tapping practitioner, interviews experts in multiple fields relating to social justice and anti-racism. In this video, Jill interviews Dabney Evans, PhD, MPH, an expert in health and human rights with a focus on women's health and gender violence. Dr Evans shares her knowledge and insights about risk factors for domestic violence (such as stress and unemployment), how COVID has magnified a pre-existing violence pandemic in our society, and how the women's reproductive rights are being challenged during COVID (both on an inter-personal and government/policy level). She shares important resources to help support reproductive rights and fight against gender violence.
Dabney P. Evans, PhD, MPH is an exceptional public health leader, serving as an Associate Professor of Global Health in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Her current research projects focus on gender-based violence, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. Her global research portfolio includes projects on: femicide prevention in Brazil, Zika surveillance across Latin America and the Caribbean, access to Mifepristone in humanitarian emergencies, early abortion ban legislation in the US South and the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Metropolitan Atlanta.
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Learn more about/follow Dabney:
Twitter: @DabneyEvans
Facebook: @DabneyPEvans
Futures Without Violence www.futureswithoutviolence.org
SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective www.sistersong.net
If you are someone you know is in danger:
- The Danger Assessment (available in multiple languages and for same sex and immigrants) https://www.dangerassessment.org
- MyPlan safety planning app https://www.myplanapp.org/home
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