Biography
Dr Zara Quigg is a Professor in Behavioural Epidemiology, and the Head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Violence Prevention at Liverpool John Moores University in the United Kingdom. She leads a research, evaluation and knowledge exchange
team who work at local to international level to enhance a whole system public health approach to violence prevention and related health risk behaviours. Zara has extensive experience of undertaking and managing research and programme evaluation studies on violence, adverse childhood experiences, alcohol use, gambling and nightlife health.
Zara has a keen interest in supporting police and multi-agency partnerships to adopt and effectively implement a public health approach to the prevention of harms that cross the law enforcement and public health landscape. She regularly works with multi-agency partnerships across the United Kingdom and Europe to develop a public health approach to preventing violence and health risk behaviours, and actively shares and disseminates evidence and learning through various global platforms including WHO and GLEPH. She co-leads the GLEPHA special interest group on violence prevention.
Title of her presentation:
Early intervention crime reduction: understanding and enhancing the role of police and multi-agency partners in preventing harms that cross the public health and criminal justice landscape