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Overview

Lori Heise is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research primarily intersects social sciences and health professions, with a significant focus on adolescent sexual and reproductive health as well as intimate partner and family violence.

Their work covers diverse topics including:

  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Sex work and related issues
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies

Heise has contributed to the subfields of general health professions, overall health, sociology and political science, gender studies, and safety research within the broad domain of health and social sciences.

Their research has been published frequently in several academic journals, with notable venues including:

  • Culture Health & Sexuality
  • BMJ Global Health
  • SSM - Population Health
  • BMC International Health and Human Rights
  • Journal of Interpersonal Violence

Among recent publications, Heise has contributed to articles such as:

  • Effective prevention of intimate partner violence through couples training: a randomised controlled trial of Indashyikirwa in Rwanda (2020), published in BMJ Global Health
  • Elements of the Design and Implementation of Interventions to Prevent Violence against Women and Girls Associated with Success: Reflections from the What Works to Prevent Violence against Women and Girls? Global Programme (2021), published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Gender-based violence during COVID-19 among adolescent girls and young women in Nairobi, Kenya: a mixed-methods prospective study over 18 months (2022), published in BMJ Global Health
  • Sexual health of adolescent girls and young women in Central Uganda: exploring perceived coercive aspects of transactional sex (2020), published in Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
  • Systematic review of social norms, attitudes, and factual beliefs linked to the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents (2020), published in Child Abuse & Neglect

Frequent co-authors contributing alongside Heise include:

  • Sangeeta Chatterji
  • Erin Stern
  • Ana Maria Buller
  • Beniamino Cislaghi
  • Shajy Isac

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

  • Ending Violence Against Women

    Lori Heise;Mary Ellsberg;Megan Gottemoeller

  • 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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  • Violence by intimate partners.

    Heise L;Garcia-Moreno C

  • Researching violence against women: a practical guide for researchers and activists

    Ellsberg Mc;Heise L

  • Gender inequality and restrictive gender norms: framing the challenges to health

    Lori Heise;Margaret E Greene;Neisha Opper;Maria Stavropoulou

  • A global overview of gender-based violence

    Lori L. Heise;Mary Carroll Ellsberg;M. Gottmoeller

  • Researching domestic violence against women: methodological and ethical considerations.

    Mary Ellsberg;Lori Heise;Rodolfo Peña;Sonia Agurto

  • 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

  • What Works to Prevent Partner Violence? An Evidence Overview.

    L.L. Heise

  • Cross-national and multilevel correlates of partner violence: an analysis of data from population-based surveys

    Lori L Heise;Andreas Kotsadam

  • Addressing violence against women: a call to action

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

  • Intimate partner violence victimization and alcohol consumption in women: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

    Karen M. Devries;Jennifer C. Child;Loraine J. Bacchus;Joelle Y. T. Mak

  • Violence against women: a neglected public health issue in less developed countries.

    Lori L. Heise;Alanagh Raikes;Charlotte H. Watts;Anthony B. Zwi

  • 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

  • Transforming aids prevention to meet women's needs: a focus on developing countries.

    Lori L. Heise;Christopher Elias

  • Revisiting the understanding of "transactional sex" in sub-Saharan Africa: A review and synthesis of the literature.

    Kirsten Stoebenau;Kirsten Stoebenau;Lori Heise;Joyce Wamoyi;Natalia Bobrova

  • Bearing witness: ethics in domestic violence research.

    Mary Carroll Ellsberg;Lori Heise

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Moses
Stephen Moses University of Manitoba
Claudia Garcia-Moreno
Claudia Garcia-Moreno World Health Organization
Joyce Wamoyi
Joyce Wamoyi Medical Research Council
Karen Devries
Karen Devries London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Amber Peterman
Amber Peterman University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kathleen Kahn
Kathleen Kahn University of the Witwatersrand
Catherine MacPhail
Catherine MacPhail University of Wollongong
Janet Seeley
Janet Seeley London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Kristin Dunkle
Kristin Dunkle South African Medical Research Council
Cathy Zimmerman
Cathy Zimmerman London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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