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Domestic violence

Michele Decker
Voices
'Women's lives depend on our work'
Published Feb 26, 2025
Backed by federal funding, Michele Decker works to understand the scope and impact of gender-based violence and to determine how to prevent it
A photograph of the White House at dusk.
Domestic Violence
Looking back at the Violence Against Women Act after 30 years of protection
Published Sept 27, 2024
Jacquelyn Campbell, who contributed to the original act three decades ago, discusses what's changed and what's next in the effort to end domestic violence
Jacquelyn Campbell
3 Questions
Guns and domestic abuse
Published June 28, 2024
Jacquelyn Campbell, a renowned expert in intimate partner violence, discusses the risks firearms pose to abused women and her landmark research that underpins a recent Supreme Court decision
Florence-Olivia Genesse demonstrates the "Signal for Help" by pointing her open palm toward the camera and then trapping her thumb with her other four fingers
Student spotlight
TikTok advocacy
Published Feb 7, 2022
JHU graduate student Florence-Olivia Genesse's feminist TikTok channel is changing minds—and saving lives
Illustration of a woman restrained by invisible hands
Domestic abuse
A lifeline to immigrant women in need
Published June 2, 2021
A new phone-based intervention provides culturally sensitive, trauma-informed resources for immigrant survivors of intimate partner violence
Therapist taking notes
Nursing
Hopkins partners with VA to share risk assessment tool for intimate partner violence
Published Dec 16, 2019
Licensing agreement between School of Nursing and Veterans Administration will help VA clinicians get trained on "gold standard" risk assessment tool for intimate partner violence
Texas church shooting 'fits a pattern'
Published Nov 7, 2017
Despite research thats shows majority of mass shootings have a connection to domestic abuse, policy loopholes allow abusers to obtain firearms easily
Women's health
Better health linked to decline in domestic violence
Published March 8, 2017
Researchers find reduction in domestic violence when chronically ill women receive life-saving treatment
Domestic Abuse
Reducing partner violence
Published Nov 3, 2016
Program co-developed by School of Nursing researcher Phyllis Sharps shows promise in helping pregnant women
Domestic violence
A smartphone lifeline
Published Fall 2016
Based on research out of Nursing, the myPlan app helps women and their friends determine whether their relationships are unsafe / Johns Hopkins Magazine