About this Event
GRAND ROUNDS
About the event
For this month’s Grand Rounds, Gary Slutkin, MD, will reveal how violence meets the the principles, criteria, and definitions of an epidemic contgious disease, how treating it as an epidemc disease works (for all forms of violence), and what is required to eliminate it. He will explain how violence spreads across individuals, communities, and countries, how it can be interrupted, and what actions are needed now.
About the speaker
Dr. Gary Slutkin is a physician and epidemiologist, formerly with the World Health Organization (WHO), who led efforts to combat epidemics of cholera, TB, and HIV/AIDS in over 20 countries in East and Central Africa, Latin America, and Asia. He was also the Director of the Intervention Development Unit at the WHO, which designed innovations in epidemic control to guide countries.
Dr. Slutkin later adapted these methods to address violence. He founded and leads Cure Violence Global (CVG), rated the #9 NGO in the world and #1 NGO for reducing violence. CVG has worked on political, election, community, tribal, cartel, and Pr*son violence in the U.S., Latin America, Africa, and in conflict zones in Iraq and Syria. Dr. Slutkin is credited with providing not just a new understanding, but also with the reclassification of violence as a contagious disease, and for showing with evidence-based studies that treating violence using epidemic control methods works. These results include 40-70% drops in killings in U.S. cities, over 30 communities that have gone to zero for one to three years, in addition to 70- 90% drops in communities in Honduras, Colombia and Mexico.
Dr. Slutkin is working on violence interruption in war and for authoritarian violence disorder, a relapsing syndrome of this epidemic disease. He received his MD from the University of Chicago, and comleted his medical residency, chief residency, and infectious disease fellowship at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and San Francisco General Hospital. His new book is “The End of Violence.”
This lecture will be offered online and in-person. All registrants should RSVP. Virtual attendees will receive the livestream link after registering.
Event venue & nearby stays
CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy, 55 West 125th Street, New York, United States
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