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People at the Moore Center

Elizabeth J. Letourneau

Director

Elizabeth J. Letourneau, PhD, is the director of the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse and a professor in the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. For more than 30 years she has conducted research involving the evaluation of clinical practice and legal policy related to adult and adolescent sexual offending. Specifically, she has developed and/or evaluated assessment tools for juvenile and adult sexual interest in children and sexual recidivism risk.

Dr. Letourneau has contributed substantively to the literature on treatment of sexual offenders, including leading the largest randomized controlled trial evaluating an intervention for youth who have sexually offended. She has served as primary investigator on six studies evaluating adult and adolescent sex crime policies, findings of which have been presented internationally (e.g., to INTERPOL), nationally to U.S. Department of Justice Agencies (e.g., U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement), cited in federal and state court cases including three state supreme court cases and provided as testimony to state and federal policy makers. She has served as president for the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abuse, the largest international member organization that focuses on the prevention of sexual abuse and sound policy and practice with people who have offended or at risk to do so.

As the inaugural director of the Moore Center, a research and policy center focused on the prevention of sexual abuse, she has turned her focus to the primary prevention of child sexual abuse. She currently heads three research studies that focus on developing primary prevention interventions targeting at-risk populations for child sexual abuse.

Deputy Directors

Amanda Ruzicka

Amanda Ruzicka, MA

Senior Research Associate

Luciana Assini-Meytin

Luciana Assini-Meytin, PhD

Assistant Scientist

Our Team

Rebecca Fix

Rebecca Fix, PhD

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Ericka Muempfer

Ericka Muempfer, MA

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Aengus Ó Dochartaigh

Aengus Ó Dochartaigh

OUTREACH DIRECTOR

Joanna Schofield

Joanna Schofield

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

Abigail R. DeSilva

Abigail R. DeSilva, MSW

SENIOR RESEARCH PROGRAM COORDINATOR

Christina Knepper

Christina Knepper, LCSW-C

RESEARCH COORDINATOR/ INTERVENTIONIST

Yi Sun

Yi Sun, MPH, MS

RESEARCH DATA MANAGER

Christian Trogdon-Lipscomb

Christian Trogdon-Lipscomb

ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR

Affiliated Faculty

Scott

Scott Hubbard

SENIOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Ryan Shields

Ryan Shields, PhD

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
School of Criminology & Justice Studies
UMass, Lowell

Postdoctoral Fellows

  • Ian McPhail, PhD
  • Allyn Walker, PhD


Scientific Advisory Board Members 

Our Scientific Advisory Board members help identify knowledge gaps and prioritize areas where Center resources can achieve the greatest impact. We are so grateful for their service.