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Ernestine Briggs-King, Ph.D., a Clinical Community Psychologist, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. She is the Director of the Data and Evaluation Program for the UCLA-Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). She is also Director of the Trauma Treatment & Research Program at the Center for Child and Family Health (CCFH). Dr. Briggs-King has developed a national reputation for her research and clinical work in the areas of child maltreatment/family violence, child traumatic stress, and resiliency in military families. Dr. Briggs-King is active in several professional organizations related to child traumatic stress, sits on the board of the National Children’s Alliance, and serves as a Regional Consultant for Project FOCUS, a national military family resilience skills training program.
Dorothy L. Espelage, Ph.D., is a Professor of Child Development in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is a University Scholar and has fellow status in Division 17 (Counseling Psychology) of the American Psychological Association. She earned her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Indiana University in 1997. She has conducted research on bullying, homophobic teasing, sexual harassment, and dating violence for the last 18 years. As a result, she presents regularly at regional, national, and international conferences and is author on over 100 professional publications. She is Associate Editor of the Journal of Counseling Psychology and Vice-President of Division E (Counseling/Human Development) of the American Educational Research Association. She has presented thousands of workshops and in-service training seminars for teachers, administrators, counselors, and social workers across the U.S. Her research focuses on translating empirical findings into prevention and intervention programming. She is currently funded by the CDC for a randomized clinical trial of a bullying prevention program in 36 middle schools. She is also funded by National Science Foundation to develop better methods to assess bullying among adolescents and CDC, NIJ are funding a longitudinal study of predictors of bullying and dating violence among adolescents, and she joins as co-PI with RAND colleagues on a 4-year NIH grant to improve methods to examine adolescent social network influences on risky alcohol and drug use. She authored a 2011 White House Brief on bullying among LGBTQ youth and attended the White House Conference in 2011. Dr. Espelage has appeared on many television news and talk shows, including The Today Show; CNN; CBS Evening News; The Oprah Winfrey Show, Anderson, Anderson 360 and has been quoted in the national print press, including Time Magazine, USA Today, People, Boston Globe, and the Wall Street Journal. Her dedicated team of undergraduate and graduate students are committed to the dissemination of the research through various mechanisms (
Mikel L. Walters, PhD is a Behavioral Scientist with the Etiology and Surveillance Branch in the Division of Violence Prevention at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Dr. Walters received her PhD in Sociology in 2009 from Georgia State University. Her major research interests include intimate partner violence, sexual violence, teen dating violence, bullying, suicide and other forms of violence. In particular, Dr. Walters is interested in violence impacting LGBT communities. Dr. Walters serves as the co-lead of the LGBT Population Task Force of the Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention. She is a co-author of the recently released National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence 2010 Summary Report and the upcoming NISVS report exploring the lifetime prevalence of intimate partner violence, sexual violence and stalking by sexual orientation. Dr. Walters currently leads the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey project in the Division of Violence Prevention at CDC.
E. Lynn Jenkins is the Chief of the Etiology and Surveillance Branch in the Division of Violence Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This branch houses several major data collection systems including the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) and the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS). Prior to coming to the Division of Violence Prevention in August 2008, Dr. Jenkins worked for 20 years at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) where she held a number of leadership and management positions including five years as a Senior Scientist in the NIOSH Office of the Director. Her primary area of research while at NIOSH was workplace violence prevention. She has authored, co-authored, or edited more than 30 journal articles, book chapters, or NIOSH documents and has made more than 100 professional presentations to research, public health, criminal justice, labor, and business audiences. Over the course of her career, Dr. Jenkins has participated in a number of interagency and other working groups focused on issues such as public health surveillance, data quality issues, workplace violence, and injury prevention.
Melissa T. Merrick, PhD, is a behavioral scientist with the Etiology and Surveillance Branch in the Division of Violence Prevention at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC). Her major research interests focus on the etiology, course, and prevention of child maltreatment. In particular, much of her current work examines safe, stable, nurturing relationships as they relate to child maltreatment prevention. Dr. Merrick currently leads the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) project in the Division of Violence Prevention and she is a coauthor of NISVS, interested primarily in violence experienced in childhood and adolescence. 
James A. Mercy, PhD oversees global activities in the Division of Violence Prevention in the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He received his PhD in sociology from Emory University in Atlanta in 1982. After his graduation, Dr. Mercy began working at CDC in a newly formed activity to examine violence as a public health problem. Over the past three decades he has helped to develop the public health approach to violence and has conducted and overseen numerous studies of the epidemiology of child maltreatment, youth and intimate partner violence, homicide, and firearm injuries. He served as a co-editor of the World Report on Violence and Health prepared by the World Health Organization and served on the Editorial Board of the United Nation’s Secretary General’s Study of Violence Against Children. Most recently he’s been working on a global partnership, called Together for Girls, with UNICEF, PEPFAR, WHO, and others to end sexual violence against girls.
Dr. Miriam Ehrensaft is a clinical psychologist specializing in translational research on violence prevention. Her program of research has concentrated on prospective longitudinal, intergenerational studies linking developmental psychopathology, adverse parenting practices, and risk for family violence, including child maltreatment and intimate partner violence. Her work has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Justice, the Centers for Disease Control, and numerous private foundations. She is currently completing a collaboration with researchers at the NYUMC Child Study Center, funded by the CDC. The project involves following up a sample of at risk, urban youth who, as preschoolers 10 years earlier, participated in a randomized controlled trial of the Building Blocks parenting intervention to prevent conduct disorder. The aim is to test whether the risk for intimate partner violence 10 years later can be reduced by preventing the development of early conduct disorder. Dr. Ehrensaft is currently associate professor in the Clinical Forensic Psychology department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Before this, she was Assistant Professor in the Div. of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia University, where she continues as voluntary faculty since her recent move to John Jay College. She is most recently transitioning to applied research to develop web-deployed parenting interventions to at risk young parents.