Webinar video: Social norms and violence against women and girls

About the author: Lori Heise and Emma Fulu

Lori Heise is an internationally recognised expert on intimate partner violence and Director of the Centre on Gender, Violence, and Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where she is also Senior Lecturer. She currently serves as Research Director of STRIVE, an international research consortium dedicated to studying the structural drivers of HIV, including gender inequalities, stigma and criminalisation, lack of livelihood options and alcohol use and harmful drinking.

Emma Fulu has a PhD from the University of Melbourne and is a global expert on violence against women and girls. She is the founder and director of the Equality Institute which works to advance all forms of equality and prevent violence against women through scientific research, innovation and creative communications. Most recently Emma was the Programme Manager for What Works to Prevent Violence against Women and Girls – a DFID-funded global programme investing an unprecedented £25 million over 5 years to the prevention of violence against women and girls across Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Before this she worked at Partners for Prevention: a joint UN programme, and was the Principal Investigator for the UN Multi-Country Study on Men and Violence. Emma has presented and published widely on the issue of violence against women including in The Lancet. She is the author of the book ‘Domestic Violence in Asia: Globalization, gender and Islam in the Maldives’ and also blogs for the Huffington Post UK on gender issues.