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Claudia Garcia-Moreno

Claudia Garcia-Moreno

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Social Sciences and Humanities
Switzerland
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
59
Citations
34633
World Ranking
1511
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Claudia Garcia-Moreno is affiliated with the World Health Organization in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with a significant emphasis on health-related fields including general health professions, clinical psychology, gender studies, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

Their work covers topics such as intimate partner and family violence, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, sexual assault and victimization studies, child abuse and trauma, global maternal and child health, sex work and related issues, and the intersection of social sciences and policies.

Recent publications by Garcia-Moreno include:

  • The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on intimate partner violence and mental health: advancing mental health services, research, and policy (2022, The Lancet Psychiatry)
  • Intimate partner violence in 46 low-income and middle-income countries: an appraisal of the most vulnerable groups of women using national health surveys (2020, BMJ Global Health)
  • Categories and health impacts of intimate partner violence in the World Health Organization multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence (2020, International Journal of Epidemiology)
  • Training healthcare providers to respond to intimate partner violence against women (2021, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews)
  • Violence against older women: A systematic review of qualitative literature (2020, PLoS ONE)

Garcia-Moreno's frequent co-authors include Soraya Seedat, Naeemah Abrahams, Bronwyn Myers, Nasheeta Peer, and Rachel Jewkes. These collaborations suggest an active role in multidisciplinary research networks addressing violence and health.

Their scholarly work is regularly published in venues such as BMJ Global Health, Conflict and Health, Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, The Lancet Psychiatry, and the International Journal of Epidemiology.

Best Publications

  • Prevalence of intimate partner violence: findings from the WHO multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence

    Claudia Garcia-Moreno;Henrica A. F. M. Jansen;Mary Carroll Ellsberg;Lori L. Heise

  • WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence against Women: Initial Results on Prevalence, Health Outcomes and Women's Responses

    C. García-Moreno;H. A. F. M. Jansen;M. Ellsberg;L. Heise

  • Intimate partner violence and women's physical and mental health in the WHO multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence: an observational study

    Mary Carroll Ellsberg;Henrica A. F. M. Jansen;Lori L. Heise;Charlotte H. Watts

  • Global and regional estimates of violence against women: prevalence and health effects of intimate partner violence and non-partner sexual violence.

    Garcia-Moreno C;Pallitto C;Devries K;Stockl H

  • The Global Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women

    K. M. Devries;Joelle Y. T. Mak;C. García-Moreno;M. Petzold

  • What Factors Are Associated With Recent Intimate Partner Violence? Findings From the WHO Multi-Country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence

    Tanya Abramsky;Charlotte H. Watts;Claudia Garcia-Moreno;Karen Devries

  • Violence Against Women

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  • Global, regional, and national prevalence estimates of physical or sexual, or both, intimate partner violence against women in 2018

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  • Violence by intimate partners.

    Heise L;Garcia-Moreno C

  • Rates, barriers and outcomes of HIV serostatus disclosure among women in developing countries: implications for prevention of mother-to-child transmission programmes

    Amy Medley;Claudia Garcia-Moreno;Scott McGill;Suzanne Maman

  • The health-systems response to violence against women

    Claudia García-Moreno;Kelsey Hegarty;Ana Flavia Lucas d'Oliveira;Jane Koziol-McLain

  • Violence against women is strongly associated with suicide attempts: Evidence from the WHO multi-country study on women’s health and domestic violence against women

    Karen Devries;Charlotte Watts;Mieko Yoshihama;Ligia Kiss

  • Intimate partner violence during pregnancy: analysis of prevalence data from 19 countries

    Karen M. Devries;Sunita Kishor;Holly Johnson;Heidi Stöckl

  • A systematic review of the correlates of violence against sex workers

    Kathleen N. Deering;Avni Amin;Jean Shoveller;Ariel Nesbitt

  • Addressing violence against women: a call to action

    Claudia García-Moreno;Cathy Zimmerman;Alison Morris-Gehring;Lori Heise

  • Prevalence of and factors associated with male perpetration of intimate partner violence: findings from the UN Multi-country Cross-sectional Study on Men and Violence in Asia and the Pacific

    Emma Fulu;Rachel Jewkes;Rachel Jewkes;Tim Roselli;Claudia Garcia-Moreno

  • Violence against women during covid-19 pandemic restrictions.

    Elisabeth Roesch;Avni Amin;Jhumka Gupta;Claudia García-Moreno

  • Intimate partner violence, abortion, and unintended pregnancy: Results from the WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence

    Christina C. Pallitto;Claudia Garcia-Moreno;Henrica A. F. M. Jansen;Lori Heise

  • Worldwide prevalence of non-partner sexual violence: a systematic review

    Naeemah Abrahams;Karen Devries;Charlotte H. Watts;Christina Pallitto

  • Abuse During Pregnancy in Industrialized and Developing Countries

    Jacquelyn C. Campbell;Claudia Garcia-Moreno;Phyllis Sharps

  • Intimate partner violence among adolescents and young women: prevalence and associated factors in nine countries: a cross-sectional study.

    Heidi Stöckl;Laura March;Laura March;Christina Pallitto;Claudia Garcia-Moreno

  • Violence against women: an urgent public health priority.

    Claudia Garcia-Moreno;Charlotte H. Watts

Frequent Co-Authors

Naeemah Abrahams
Naeemah Abrahams South African Medical Research Council
Lori Heise
Lori Heise Johns Hopkins University
Rachel Jewkes
Rachel Jewkes South African Medical Research Council
John Cleland
John Cleland London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Alex Ezeh
Alex Ezeh Drexel University
Heidi Stöckl
Heidi Stöckl University of London
Karen Devries
Karen Devries London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Abigail M. Hatcher
Abigail M. Hatcher University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Wietse A. Tol
Wietse A. Tol Johns Hopkins University
Kelsey Hegarty
Kelsey Hegarty University of Melbourne

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