Obstacles and facilitators to intimate bystanders reporting violent extremism or targeted violence
Obstacles and facilitators to intimate bystanders reporting violent extremism or targeted violence
David P. EisenmanStevan WeinePaul ThomasMichele GrossmanNatalie PorterNilpa D. ShahChloe Polutnik SmithZach BrahmbhattMichael Fernandesa David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, USAb Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, USAc College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, USAd School of Education and Professional Development, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UKe Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Melbourne, AustraliaDavid P. Eisenman, MD, MS HS (ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4320-1331) is a Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine and the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA, where he directs the Center for Public Health and Disasters and co-directs the Center for Healthy Climate Solutions. His studies of disasters, climate change, violence, mental health, and public health have been funded by the National Institute of Justice, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Homeland Security, the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He is an Associate Natural Scientist at RAND and was previously the Preparedness Science Officer for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.Stevan Weine, MD (ORCID ID: 0000-0002-4515-3065) is Professor of Psychiatry at the UIC College of Medicine and Director of Global Medicine and Director of the Center for Global Health. For 30 years, he has been conducting research both with refugees and migrants in the U.S. and in post-conflict countries, focused on mental health, health, and violence prevention. This work has been supported by multiple grants from the National Institute of Justice, National Institute of Mental Health, Department of Homeland Security, and other state, federal, and private funders. Weine is the 2020 recipient of the Abraham L. Halpern Humanitarian Award of the American Association for Social Psychiatry.Paul Thomas, PhD (ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1264-2759) is a Professor of Youth and Policy and Associate Dean (Research) at the School of Education and Professional Development, University of Huddersfield, UK. Thomas’s research on how ground-level practitioners and communities have experienced violent extremism, racial tension and policies to prevent them has led to several books, such as ‘Responding to the Threat of Violent Extremism: Failing to Prevent’ articles in leading journals, and research funding from CREST/ESRC (UK), Public Safety Canada, the National Institute of Justice (USA) and UK regional/local government bodies. Thomas is a Scientific Expert for the EU Research and Innovation Programme, a member of the International Advisory Board for the AVERT network in Australia, and has given oral evidence on the Prevent counter-terrorism programme to the UK Parliament. Thomas is a qualified Youth and Community Worker, and prior to becoming an academic worked for a national youth work organisation and for the UK Government’s Commission for Racial Equality.Michele Grossman, PhD (ORCID ID: 0000-0001-5603-7687) is a Professor of Cultural Studies and Research Chair in Diversity and Community Resilience at Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, where she is Director of the multi-institutional Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies (CRIS) and the AVERT (Addressing Violent Extremism and Radicalisation to Terrorism) Research Network. Grossman’s studies on community engagement with and responses to terrorism and violent extremism events, prevention programmes and policies have been supported by funding from CREST-ESRC (UK), the EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program, the Australian Federal Police, Victoria Police, Australia’s Countering Violent Extremism Subcommittee and Department of Home Affairs, National Institute of Justice (USA), Public Safety Canada and other agencies. She is Associate Editor for Terrorism and Political Violence, a Robert Schuman (Distinguished Scholar) Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, and a Visiting Professor at University of Huddersfield.Natalie Porter (ORCID ID: 0000-0002-5866-6636) earned a BA in Neuroscience and Behavior from Barnard College and an MPH in Community Health Sciences at the Fielding School of Public Health, UCLA. She spent 5 years working with youth experiencing homelessness before returning to school, where she has focused on mental health and equity issues. She has conducted quantitative and qualitative research in smoking cessation, emotional regulation, speech perception, homelessness, violence prevention, childhood trauma prevention, health systems, and implementation science.Nilpa D. Shah, MPH (ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8199-7145) received an MPH from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. At UCLA, she focused on community violence and intimate partner violence prevention. Shah specialises in qualitative research and studying the impacts of sociocultural and biobehavioral determinants of health. She has conducted research in violence prevention, family caregiving, telehealth, and patient-provider decision-making. Her research interests include relationship of physical and mental health, prevention of chronic diseases, and health and social behaviour. LinkedIn:Chloe Polutnik Smith, MPH received an MPH with a global health concentration in the Community Health Sciences Division from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She works as a programme coordinator in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has experience conducting research with refugees and migrant populations in the U.S. and in post-conflict countries, focused on mental health, health, and violence prevention. She has expertise in qualitative methodologies.Zach Brahmbhatt earned a BA in political science from UIC and is an MD candidate at the University of Illinois College of Medicine as a part of the Global Medicine program. He currently works for the UIC Department of Psychiatry as a graduate student researcher, focusing his efforts on applying public health frameworks to the violence prevention space.Michael Fernandes is a pre-medical student at the University of Illinois at Chicago majoring in political science. He works as an undergraduate student researcher at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry.