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Mar 2025
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S4E2 New Tools for Measuring Sexual Viol...

SVRI
About this episode

Measuring the impact of violence prevention interventions is crucial to  understanding which efforts are truly making a difference in reducing sexual violence. But are the current methods able to capture the full scope of this complex issue? What if there were more reliable, comprehensive ways to assess the true effectiveness of our work.


In this episode, Sangeeta Chatterji, Director of Research at SVRI, shares insights on a proposed new approach to measuring success in violence prevention. We’re also joined by Kate Falb, Assistant Professor at the Center for Humanitarian Health in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who explains how integrating transdisciplinary approaches could lead to more holistic and effective violence prevention interventions. 


Your host is: Elizabeth Dartnall, Executive Director, Sexual Violence Research Initative (SVRI). 


🎧 Listen to learn:

➡︎ Why outcome measures matter 

➡︎ How integrating transdisciplinary approaches could improve outcomes 

➡︎ How researchers balance the ethics of transdisciplinary research

➡︎ Why more integration between disciplines is needed 


📱Connect with Kate Falb and Sangeeta Chatterji

⚡Follow SVRI on Instagram

🌐Check out the SVRI website 

🎥 Watch our film on YouTube

💬 Connect with the SVRI svri@svri.org and our host, Elizabeth Dartnall

🎙️ An OG Podcasts Ltd production.


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 Please share new resources with us at svri@svri.org.

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