A physician will talk about her own experience as a survivor of domestic violence as part of the third annual Domestic Violence Seminar at Yale, being held Monday-Wednesday, March 30-April 1.
The three-lecture series seeks to educate health professionals and members of community agencies who work with victims of domestic violence about the problem, which encompasses issues of both personal safety and public health. Domestic violence is a fact of life for an estimated 300,000 women in Connecticut, and it accounts for more than one-third of the women who seek care in emergency departments throughout the United States, according to American Medical Association reports. Furthermore, researchers agree that domestic violence is dramatically underreported in this country.
The three lectures in the seminar series, which are free and open to the public, will be held 4:30-6 p.m. in Winslow Auditorium, 60 College St. The schedule follows:
March 30 -- "A Bridge Over Troubled Waters," by Dr. Yolanda Haywood, associate professor of emergency medicine at George Washington University Medical Center and director of the violence initiative at the university's Ronald Reagan Institute of Emergency Medicine. Haywood will speak about her own experience as a survivor of domestic violence and as a clinician.
March 31 -- "From Sensitivity to Competency: Working with Victims of Domestic Violence from Diverse Communities" by Sujata Warrier, director of the New York City Program of the New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence. Warrier will discuss the need for health-care professionals to achieve competency when working with victims of domestic violence from diverse communities. She will provide attendees with basic guiding principles and exercises that will enable them to successfully intervene with diverse victims of domestic violence, particularly immigrant women.
April 1 -- "Violence against Women: From Idea to Action," by Donna Edwards, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based National Network to End Domestic Violence, a national organization of state domestic violence coalitions. Edwards will focus on the evolution of the federal Violence against Women Act and will introduce participants to the pending Violence against Women Act II.
The Domestic Violence Seminar Series at Yale is sponsored by students at the School of Medicine and its department of epidemiology and public health, in conjunction with the Pew Urban Health Program, Epidemiology and Public Health Student Organization, the Office of Women in Medicine, Physicians for Social Responsibility and Medical Student Council, and with advisory support from the Domestic Violence Training Project. For more information, call 785-5911.
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