Congratulations to Emily Rothman, Winner of the 2012 Linda Saltzman New Investigator Award
Futures Without Violence and the CDC Foundation are proud to honor Emily Rothman as our 2012 Award winner for her outstanding work in the study of dating abuse and intimate partner violence. The Award is also a testimony to the late Dr . Linda Saltzman, who connected research, policy, science and advocacy in ways that broke new ground at the CDC.
Our thanks to the committee of experts in the field that reviewed 8 outstanding candidates, as well as the nominators who took time to share their enthusiasm about promising researchers and practitioners. Emily Rothman, ScD and Associate Professor at the Boston University School of Public Health, will receive passage to the 2012 National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence in San Francisco, CA and a small stipend.
Emily F. Rothman earned her master's and her ScD in Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health ('04), and maintains a Visiting Scientist position at the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. Dr. Rothman is the PI on K01 and R03 research grants from the National Institutes of Health to study dating abuse, and is also a consultant on two CDC violence prevention projects (EMPOWER and DELTA). As of January 2012, her CV included 33 peer-reviewed publications, 3 book chapters or curricula, 1 policy report, and 5 popular-press publications. She has been invited to speak on the topic of intimate partner or dating violence at state, national, and international conferences, taught several courses for graduate students, and has been recognized for her commitment to high-quality teaching. She has been a research advisor to the Robert Wood Johnson Start Strong dating violence initiative in Boston, and affiliated with the Massachusetts Governor's Commission on Sexual and Domestic Violence. Prior to pursuing her academic career, Dr. Rothman worked directly with victims and perpetrators of intimate partner violence in a battered women's shelter and at a batterer intervention program. She was the director of batterer intervention program services for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1998-2001. Her current research interests include the impact of gonzo pornography on youth sexual behavior, and the effectiveness of hospital-based brief interventions to reduce domestic and dating violence perpetration.
