Confronting Gender Based Violence: Healthcare Workers Guide
Learn to address gender-based violence in healthcare. Global lessons on epidemiology, health impacts, and best practices for prevention and support.
Learn to address gender-based violence in healthcare. Global lessons on epidemiology, health impacts, and best practices for prevention and support.
This course equips healthcare professionals with essential knowledge and skills to address gender-based violence (GBV) globally. Covering epidemiology, health impacts, and WHO guidelines, it emphasizes a strong health sector response to GBV. Participants learn key competencies for clinical assessment, treatment, and psychosocial support of GBV survivors. The course combines core curriculum with honors content, offering in-depth exploration of specialized topics. It prepares healthcare workers to describe GBV's global prevalence, articulate challenges in integrating GBV response within healthcare, and provide comprehensive clinical care to survivors.
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What you'll learn
Describe the global epidemiology of leading forms of GBV and the evidence linking GBV to poor health
Articulate the challenges, strategies, and WHO guidelines for integrating GBV response within the health sector
Describe the components of a comprehensive clinical assessment, treatment, and management of a GBV survivor
Describe the appropriate psychosocial support and management of a GBV survivor
Understand the unique challenges of GBV research and ethical considerations
Explore specialized topics such as GBV in humanitarian settings and among vulnerable populations
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17 assignments
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There are 4 modules in this course
This comprehensive course on gender-based violence (GBV) for healthcare workers covers global epidemiology, health impacts, and best practices for prevention and support. It includes modules on GBV epidemiology and health impact, healthcare response and screening, clinical care for survivors, and specialized topics. The curriculum emphasizes practical skills in clinical assessment, psychosocial support, and integrating GBV response within healthcare systems. Participants learn about WHO guidelines, safety planning, and ethical considerations in GBV research. The course also explores GBV in various contexts, including humanitarian settings and among adolescents and sex workers.
Introduction to GBV - Epidemiology and Health Impact
Module 1 · 5 Hours to complete
Health Care Response, Screening, and Psychosocial Support
Module 2 · 5 Hours to complete
Clinical Care for GBV Survivors
Module 3 · 5 Hours to complete
Additional Materials and Wrap-Up
Module 4 · 5 Hours to complete
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Instructor
Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins, specializing in gender-based violence and sexual health.
Michele R. Decker, ScD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. A social epidemiologist, her research examines gender-based violence, such as sexual assault, intimate partner violence, and sex trafficking, with a focus on prevention and its impacts on sexual and reproductive health, including STI/HIV risks and unintended pregnancies. Her work prioritizes marginalized populations, including urban women, adolescents, and those engaged in transactional sex or sex work. Dr. Decker combines quantitative and qualitative methods in her research, spanning domestic settings and regions such as South and Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe/Central Asia. She also advances clinic-based interventions to address violence-related health outcomes.
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