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The Center at the SVRI Forum '24

The Center for Global Women’s Health and Gender Equity (CGWHGE) faculty, partners, affiliates and friends will be attending and presenting at the SVRI Forum '24 in Cape Town, October 21st-25, 2024. 

Listed below are Center-affiliated oral presentations, poster sessions and participant driven events on a range of topics including, reproductive coercion, help seeking behavior among IPV victims, couples' interventions. 

Find us at Booth 38 and explore all of the Center's faculty, students and affiliates at SVRI Forum '24!

Tuesday, 22 October

Applying the best friend methodology to intimate partner violence measurement
Ground Floor | Poster
Presenter: Haley Thomas, MSPH, PhD Candidate, Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Dynamics of changing determinants of intimate partner violence in India: Evidence National Family Health Survey- 2005-06 to 2019-21
11:00 – 12:30 pm  | Daisy | Oral Presentation
Presenter: Suresh Jungari, Center GBV/GE Evidence Accelerator Scholar, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health and Mortality Studies, Centre of Demography of Gender, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India 

Caribbean model for masculinities and criminal violence: An approach to eliminating violence against women and girls
3:00 – 4:30 pm  | Hall 5/6 | Oral Presentation
Presenter: Tricia Basdeo-Gobin, Center GBV/GE Evidence Accelerator Scholar, Co-Founder and Chairperson, CariMAN Regional Advocacy Working Group 

Actionable gaps: Help-seeking behavior among young women experiencing intimate partner violence and non-partner sexual violence in Nairobi, Kenya
5:00 – 6:30 pm  | Hall 8.2 | Oral Presentation
Presenter: Judy Ngina, PhD Candidate, University of Nairobi & Haley L. Thomas, MSPH, PhD Candidate, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health 

Adapting an evidence-based couples’ intervention (Indashyikirwa) for a new context: A discussion on adaption and implementation process and lessons learned in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
7:00 – 8:30 pm  | Hall 8.3 | Participant Driven Event
Hosted by: Nancy Glass, Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing| Associate Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health /DRC Delegate

What Works to Prevent VAWG: Learning About Ethical Scale
7:30– 9:30 pm  | Hall 7 | Participant Driven Event
Hosted by:  What Works to Prevent Violence: Impact at Scale 

Wednesday, 23 October

Policy levers to prevent intimate partner violence at scale: An overview of the evidence
9:00 – 10:30 am  | Hall 5/6 | Oral Presentation
Presenter: Lori Heise, Senior Advisor, Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health & Steering Committee Member, CGWHGE 

Longitudinal impact of reproductive coercion on contraceptive dynamics across sub-Saharan Africa
11:30am – 1:00 pm  | Hall 8.3 | Oral Presentation
Presenter: Mary Thiongo, Project Director, PMA Agile & Michele Decker, Professor, Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health  

Economic agency and gender-based violence among women domestic workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh: Baseline findings
5:00pm – 6:30 pm  | Hall 8.3 | Flash Oral Presentation
Presenter: Anaise Williams, Assistant Scientist, Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 

Prevalence and experience of non-partner sexual violence among in-school adolescent girls in low-income communities in Southwestern Nigeria
5:00 – 6:30 pm  | Daisy | Flash Oral Presentation
Presenter: Mobolaji Modinat Salawu, Center GBV/GE Evidence Accelerator Scholar, Department of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria 

Thursday, 24 October

Effectiveness of the myPlan Teen app, a digital healthy relationship and safety planning intervention with adolescent ages 15-17 years’
11:00am – 12:30 pm  | Daisy | Oral Presentation
Presenter: Nancy Glass, Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing | Associate Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health 

Testing the integration of gender-based violence screening and response in routine health services in Nigeria
3:00pm – 4:30 pm  | Hall 5/6 | Oral Presentation
Presenter: Myra Betron, Associate, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Forms of Sexual Harassment among young people aged 15 -29 in Nairobi Kenya
3:00pm – 4:30 pm  | Venue: Hall 8.1 | Oral Presentation
Presenter: Grace Ngare, Mercy Kamau, Regina Mwatha, Anaise Williams, Shannon Wood, Judy Ngina, Peter Gichangi, Mary Thiong’o, Michele Decker