WHO WE ARE
MOORE is a center at the renowned Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, driven by scientific discovery, global in focus, and led by Elizabeth Letourneau, PhD and a diverse team of specialists with decades of collective experience.
All children have the right to grow up free from sexual abuse and realize their potential. Everyone benefits when children live their lives free from sexual abuse. And everyone shares the responsibility for preventing it. We are intent on meeting this challenge head-on.
OUR HISTORY
2012
Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse founded by Elizabeth Letourneau, PhD and foundational donors Dr. Stephen and Mrs. Julia Moore at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
2014
Landmark MOORE publication establishes the need for perpetration prevention research and a comprehensive public health approach to preventing child sexual abuse.
2016
First National Institutes of Health grant targeting perpetration prevention since the 1980s awarded to MOORE to pilot a primary prevention, school-based program (Responsible Behavior with Younger Children).
2017
Elizabeth Leturneau, PhD invited to serve on World Health Organization Guideline Development Group for the response to the sexual abuse of children and adolescents.
2018
MOORE publishes ground-breaking research findings on the national and international burden of child sexual abuse victimization.
2020
Long advocacy campaign leads to congressional approval of recurring federal funds for child sexual abuse prevention research at the CDC.
2022
Integration of MOORE-designed perpetration prevalence items in Violence Against Children surveys, delivered globally by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Together for Girls.
2024
Launch of prevention.global resource hub and deep dive series of knowledge products exploring challenges and opportunities in perpetration prevention.
A GREETING FROM THE MOORES
"We have always taken solace in knowing that we could stop the cycle of abuse from recurring and impacting future generations."
I am an alumnus of the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins, and completed my preventive medicine residency at the school. My wife Julia and I are the founding donors of MOORE | Preventing Child Sexual Abuse, and we want to briefly share the reason why we started the Center, why we named it as we did, and what our hope is for the future...
OUR PEOPLE
The MOORE team is led by Elizabeth Letourneau, PhD and a diverse team of specialists across a range of disciplines; including clinical psychology, public health, statistics, impact evaluation, and strategic communications.
DIRECTOR'S WELCOME
"Children are everywhere. So we need to be everywhere, working with everyone to press the case that child sexual abuse is preventable, not inevitable. "
For over 35 years I have been leading work on child sexual abuse prevention, practice, and policy. In that time we have raised $35 million in funding and continue to work closely with partners from across the globe - from the CDC, to the European Commission, and the World Bank's International Finance Corporation. But there is still so much more to do...