Alexander ButchartPrevention of Violence Coordinator
World Health Organzation
Geneva, Switzerland
Area of expertise: family violence, Global Campaign for Violence Prevention, andepidemiology of violence.
Dr. Alexander Butchart is the Prevention of Violence Coordinator, in the Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention, at the World Health Organization. His responsibilities include coordinating the Global Campaign for Violence Prevention, the development of policy for the prevention of interpersonal violence, preparation of guidelines for the prevention of specific types of interpersonal violence, and the co-ordination of research into various aspects of interpersonal violence and its prevention.
Prior to joining WHO, he worked mainly in Southern and Central Africa, where he was lead scientist of the South African Violence and Injury Surveillance Consortium, and in collaboration with the Uganda-based Injury Prevention Initiative for Africa, participated in training violence and injury prevention workers from a number of African countries. He has been a visiting scientist at the Swedish Karolinska Institutet's Division of Social Medicine, and is a widely published social scientist.
