About the Author
Dr. Gary Slutkin is a physician and epidemiologist, and innovator in violence reduction. As the Founder and Former CEO of Cure Violence Global, he is widely recognized for pioneering the epidemic control approach to violence prevention and revolutionizing the field.
Formerly the Director of Interventions at the World Health Organization, Dr. Slutkin guided efforts to combat epidemics of tuberculosis, cholera, and AIDS in over twenty countries in Africa and Asia. In 2000, he founded Cure Violence Global, which applied these epidemiological methods to stop the spread of violence in some of the most violent neighborhoods in the United States, Latin America and the Middle East.
Dr. Slutkin is has presented his science and solution-driven understanding of violence as an epidemic disease to the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, the State Department, the Institute of Medicine, Harvard Law School, MIT, the U.S. Congress, and the National Intelligence Council. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Economist, CNN, BBC. and in the award-winning film, The Interrupters."
