Prof. Dr. Jay G. Silverman
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University of California, United States
Jay G. Silverman, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Division of Global Public Health,Department of Medicine, at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. Dr. Silverman's research focuses on the health-related consequences and prevention of gender-based violence against adolescent and adult women (e.g., intimate partner violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking) globally. His recent research has centered on implications intimate partner violence for heterosexual HIV/STI infection and for reproductive and child health. Dr. Silverman's has been PI on multiple federally-funded studies of trafficking, violence and HIV, and has published more than 90 peer-reviewed manuscripts on these forms of gender-based violence and the effects of this violence on the health of women and their children (with particular emphasis on girl children). He is also co-author of the practitioner guidebook entitled The Batterer as Parent (Sage, 2002), for which was awarded the 2004 Pro Humanitate Literary Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Child Welfare Practice by the North American Resource Center for Child Welfare. Dr. Silverman has served as advisor to WHO, UNAIDS, and UNDP on issues of gender-based violence, and is a Senior Health Advisor to the Family Violence Prevention Fund.
Selected Publications:
- Silverman JG. Key to prevention of HIV in women: Reduce gender-based violence. Lancet 2010; 376(9734):6-7.
- Silverman JG, Decker MR, Raj A, Cheng DM, McCauley HL, Wirth K, Donta B, Saggurti N. Gender-based disparities in infant and child mortality based on maternal exposure to husband violence: The heavy burden borne by Indian girls. In press: Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (APAM).
- Silverman JG, Decker MR, Gupta J, Kapur N, Raj A, Naved RT. Does maternal intimate partner violence victimization affect child morbidity?: Evidence from a national Bangladeshi sample. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (APAM) 2009;163:700-705.
- Silverman JG, Decker MR, Niranjan S, Balaiah D, Raj A. Intimate partner violence and HIV infection among married Indian women. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) 2008; 300:703-719.
- Silverman JG, Gupta J, Decker MR, Kapur N, Raj A. Intimate partner violence, unwanted pregnancy and pregnancy termination among a national sample of Bangladeshi women. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 2007; 114:1246-1252.
- Silverman JG, Decker MR, Gupta J, Maheshwari A, Willis BM, Raj A. HIV prevalence and predictors of infection among sex trafficked Nepalese girls and women. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) 2007; 298: 536-42.
- Silverman JG, Decker MR, Reed E, Raj A. Intimate partner violence victimization prior to and during pregnancy among women residing in 26 U.S. states: Associations with maternal and neonatal health. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2006; 195:140-8.