Leah Wentworth, PhD, MPH
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I am a public health professional with approximately 10 years of experience managing and evaluating public health and injury prevention programs, with service in both local and state government. I have worked on a variety of federally funded injury and violence prevention programs, including New York State’s Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) Program and Core State Violence and Injury Prevention Program (Core SVIPP), and the University of Iowa’s Garrett Lee Smith Youth Suicide Prevention Program. I have particular interest in evaluating primary prevention strategies for injury and violence, including sexual violence, intimate partner violence, suicide, and non-suicidal self-injury. I am also broadly interested in college health and occupational health, recognizing that school or work settings can contribute tremendously to health outcomes. Finally, I am committed to translating research to practice in the public health setting, recognizing the dynamic, reciprocal relationship between effective practice and meaningful research.
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Education
Research
Current research
I am currently principal investigator on a CDC-funded research project evaluating the effectiveness of a strengths-based curriculum with at-risk boys in western New York. The impact of the program on a number of outcomes will be examined, including sexual assault perpetration, bystander behavior, attitudes related to gender roles and acceptability of sexual violence, interpersonal relationships, and youth-adult connectedness. Factors that may impact the implementation of the program will also be assessed, and results will be used to inform future work within New York State and nationally. This grant award period is 09/16 - 09/20.
https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/fundedprograms/Research_Awards.html
Research interests
Injury prevention, violence prevention, community-based participatory research, suicide prevention, research to practice, occupational health, coalition assessment.