Ana Maria  is a social scientist with a social psychology background and a particular interest in the intersection of gender, health and development. She holds an MSc on Social Research Methods from the LSE. Before joining the School she worked as a research associate for KCL in a project developing indicators of measurement of access to maternity services in London. In 2006 she was granted an LSHTM graduate teaching assistant studentship to undertake a PhD on the construction of masculinities and interpersonal violence among young men from deprived settings in Peru.  Upon PhD completion she joined the Gender Violence & Health Centre as a Research Fellow. Ana Maria has extensive experience in health research, including fieldwork coordination and training in rural, urban and health care services settings.  She has worked both in Latin America and the UK. Currently she is involved in a multi-method study funded by the NIHR aiming to improve the response of the NHS to domestic violence (DV) through effective care for people experiencing abuse and perpetrators, with a particular emphasis on the needs of men who have sex with men in London. Ana Maria is also starting two new projects in Latin America. One looking at the connections between DV and social protection programmes such as cash transfers, and a second one exploring the links between trafficking and health.  She is one of the Course Directors for the MSc in Public Health and has been teaching on the Principles of Social Research module both as in-house seminar leader and distance learning tutor for several years.

10 Dec 2010 – The measure of a man: Constructions of masculinity and interpersonal violence among young men in Peru

SPEAKER: Dr Ana-Maria Buller
Gender, Violence & Health Centre, Social & Mathematical Epidemiology Group @ LSHTM

8 Dec 2010 – Domestic violence perpetrator programmes: working with the source of the problem. What do well run perpetrator programmes add to co-ordinated community responses to violence against women and how do they contribute to women’s safety?

SPEAKER: Thangam Debbonaire
RESPECT - the UK membership association for domestic violence perpetrator programmes

6 Dec 2010 – Shaping the global violence and HIV agendas: Dispatches from the frontlines of the global women’s movement

SPEAKER: Lori Heise
Gender, Violence & Health Centre, Social & Mathematical Epidemiology Group @ LSHTM

30 Nov 2010 – Women at risk in migration: Violence & Health

SPEAKER: Dr Cathy Zimmerman
Gender, Violence & Health Centre, Social & Mathematical Epidemiology Group @ LSHTM

 25 Nov 2010 – Evaluating the impact of domestic violence prevention programmes: Lessons from 3 ongoing intervention studies

SPEAKER: Professor Charlotte Watts

Director Gender, Violence & Health Centre, Social & Mathematical Epidemiology Group @ LSHTM 

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26 Nov – Global prevalence of intimate partner violence

SPEAKER: Karen Devries

27 Nov – Experiences and impact of domestic violence and abuse in gay and bisexual men attending a UK sexual health service: a cross sectional survey

SPEAKER:  Loraine Bacchus

30 Nov – An intimate partner violence prevention intervention in a conflict-setting: Lessons from Cote d’Ivoire

SPEAKER:  Mazeda Hossain

4 Dec – Intimate partner violence: Global prevalence and trends

SPEAKER:  Heidi Stoeckl

7 Dec – Human trafficking prevention: emerging themes for research and evaluation’

SPEAKER:  Ligia Kiss

Author: Heidi Stoeckl et al Published: Mar 2013

Author: Alistair Ager et al Published: Oct 2012

Author: Karen Devries et al Published: Apr 2012

Author: Suzanna Francis et al  Published: Aug 2012

Author: Fabienne N Jaegar et al  Published: Aug 2012

Author: Shelley Lees et al  Published: Nov 2012

Shelley is an anthropologist who has conducted research on HIV prevention and care, medical research, maternal health and gender-based violence. She has many years of experience of conducting research in the Tanzania. Her most recent work focused on the everyday lives and sexuality of Tanzanian women who participated in a clinical trial to test a microbicide gel. She is currently working on a large trial to explore whether provision of gender training alone or in combination with microfinance reduces gender based violence. The study is being conducted in collaboration with the Mwanza Intervention Trials Unit, Mwanza, Tanzania.