L-UNIVERSITÀ TA’ MALTA
Msida – Malta
FAKULTÀ GĦAT-TISĦIĦ TAS-SOĊJETÀ
UNIVERSITY OF MALTA
Msida - Malta
FACULTY FOR SOCIAL WELLBEING
DIPARTIMENT STUDJI DWAR IL-ĠENERI
DEPARTMENT OF GENDER STUDIES
The Department of Gender Studies will be
hosting a public lecture entitled
Violence against women and girls: how can we prevent it, and what works to support
survivors?
Speaker: Dr Giulia Ferrari – London School of Hygiene & Tropical
Medicine, UK
Venue: VC Hall 101, Level 1, IT Services Building
Date: Tuesday 29th March 2016
Time: 16:00 till 17:30
Violence against women and girls is widespread. Globally, one in three women older than 15 years has experienced
violence from their partners in their lifetime. Some of the more exciting questions in this field are about what works for
VAWG prevention and in support of VAWG survivors; and about how to measure the costs and cost-effectiveness of
VAWG interventions. In this talk, I will report on recent results from a successful intervention to improve the mental
health of VAWG survivors in the UK and on current efforts at standardising costing and impact measurement
methodologies in the VAWG field. I will rely on examples from interventions currently under way in various
geographical locations – from the UK to sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia – as well as in a variety of setups, from high
schools to adult learning courses, through community mobilisation interventions to change gender norms around VAWG.
The general public is cordially invited to attend this public lecture. For enquiries, please feel free to
contact Ms Isabelle Camilleri & Ms Samantha Grima by phone on 2340 3956 & 2340 3808 or by sending
an email to isabelle.camilleri@um.edu.mt and samantha.grima@um.edu.mt
About the
Guest
Speaker:
Giulia Ferrari is a Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). She is part of the Social
and Mathematical Epidemiology (SaME) HIV Modelling and Economics Group within the Department of Global Health and
Development. She has more than ten years’ experience in violence research in both sub-Saharan Africa and the UK. At LSHTM,
she is the health economist on a large UKAid-funded programme for the prevention of violence against women and girls
(VAWG), spanning more than 10 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The programme – What Works to prevent
VAWG – is fielding and evaluating interventions for the prevention of VAWG in a variety of settings and populations, and aims
to produce high quality comparable data.
Giulia frequently gives presentations at national and international meetings. She originally trained as a quantitative economist at
Bocconi University (Milan, Italy), and has recently completed her PhD in International Development at the London School of
Economics and Political Science. Her work focuses on the socio-economic predictors of VAWG, as well as measures of
wellbeing. Her methodological interests are in the economic and impact evaluation of interventions for the prevention of VAWG
and for the support of VAWG survivors. She is a reviewer for a World Bank study on women’s economic empowerment in subSaharan Africa, and has worked as a consultant in the international and sustainable development fields.
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