UTHealth Houston Center for Violence Prevention

06/24/2025

Texas VIPR releases the July Webinar Series speaker! Hope you can join us.

VIPR's July Webinar Series has dropped!

Sign up online and join the fun. (Registration link in comments.)

📢 The impact of Texas' Electronic Sexual Assault Evidence Kit (SAK) Tracking Reform

Join Dr. Hannah Rochford for a discussion about the impact of Texas' electronic SAK reform provisions on (1) emergency department care for sexual assault, and (2) sexual assault reporting to law enforcement was estimated using quasi-experimental approaches. Findings suggest this policy change may be particularly beneficial for survivors in counties that lack sexual assault forensic exam-ready (SAFE-ready) facilities.

https://public-health.tamu.edu/directory/rochford.html

VIPR Webinar Series: This monthly series explores current research, education, and advocacy as it relates to violence and injury prevention across the lifespan and in larger social and institutional structures. Join us on the third Tuesday of each month from 12 - 1PM.

10/28/2024

Check out the latest publication from Dr. Shannon Guillot-Wright.

“When the Bills Keep on Coming:” the Experiences of Seafood Processors During the COVID-19 Pandemic, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1059924X.2024.2421585

If you would like a pdf copy of the article, you can email us at [email protected]

Essential workers were at increased risk during the COVID-19 pandemic, including seafood processors who are often rendered invisible within the public sphere. To examine the health and safety conce...

10/08/2024

We’re excited to be SAVIR memebers and hope you’ll check this out!

OPEN NOW: the SAVIR Call for Abstracts! SAVIR's next Annual Conference will take place in New York, NY from April 7-9, 2025, and you don't want to miss it. The SAVIR conference is the premier gathering of injury and violence prevention researchers and an excellent venue to share your work, whether you are a student/trainee, senior leader in the field, or anything in between. View the conference website to start preparing your submission – due October 15! https://savir.joynconference.com/v2/

08/26/2024

Congratulations to our team members, Drs. Jeff Temple, Leila Wood, & Elizabeth Baumler, who published in JAMA Pediatrics this month.

"Parents who recently experienced intimate partner violence reported more parenting stress and higher potential for child maltreatment, and were less likely to use positive parenting strategies, according to The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston) research published Aug. 26, 2024 in JAMA Pediatrics."

https://www.uth.edu/news/story/new-research-from-uthealth-houston-finds-parents-who-recently-experienced-intimate-partner-violence-had-higher-potential-for-parenting-stress-and-child-maltreatment

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Parents who recently experienced intimate partner violence reported more parenting stress and higher potential for child maltreatment, and were less ...

08/22/2024

The CVP team presented twice this week at the Texas Association against Sexual Assault annual conference with our colleagues at UT Arlington and the Texas Council on Family Violence. Our presentations focused on digital services and advocacy models for sexual violence survivors.

Pictured:
Maggy McGiffert (UTHealth CVP), Molly Voyles (TCFV) Jen Mudge (TCFV) and Dr. Rachel Voth Schrag (UT Arlington).

06/12/2024

In Texas, the labor is largely left up to migrants and refugees, many with Vietnamese and Mexican origins. While the CDC data shows vessel disasters and overboard falls caused 80% of the Gulf Coast deaths in the past two decades, Guillot-Wright said the region’s commercial shrimp fishermen were most worried about how their overall health issues led to the dangerous slips, trips and falls.

Texas shrimpers working in the Gulf of Mexico face an industry fatality rate for fishermen that is about 40 times higher than the national average.

06/06/2024

Our very own Dr. Jeff Temple will be participating!

04/02/2024

Check out this virtual event from Stand SAFE happening tomorrow, April 3, 2024 at 7 PM CST.

After getting a glimpse of SAFE's updated education modules and how you can help embed gun violence prevention education into 100% of our country's medical schools, you will hear from Dr. Dean Winslow, SAFE Co-Founder and Professor of Medicine at Stanford Medical School and Greg Jackson, who serves...

08/28/2023

Congratulations to our Lead Research Project Manager, Maggy McGiffert, for being awarded the Q4 STARR Award given by UTMB Research Services and nominated by her peers. We truly have a rock-star team!