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Violence Prevention Institute at Tulane Fostering research, training, & advocacy to address systemic, structural, & interpersonal violence

The Violence Prevention Institute (VPI) at Tulane comes out of President Mike Fitts' desire to expand the way Tulane addresses violence within its campuses as well as in and beyond New Orleans.

Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! We want to take this time to not only honor the traditions and contributions of Hispanic ...
10/08/2026

Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! We want to take this time to not only honor the traditions and contributions of Hispanic communities in the U.S. but to also increase awareness of the challenges this community faces regarding reporting experiences of violence. Addressing the barriers to reporting violence in Hispanic communities is crucial to meeting the needs of survivors.

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09/30/2026

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Meet the 2026-2027 VPI Research Assistants! These RAs are involved across various research projects and programming at V...
09/30/2026

Meet the 2026-2027 VPI Research Assistants! These RAs are involved across various research projects and programming at VPI. Scroll to the right to learn more about each RA!

Samuel is a Master of Science candidate in Biostatistics (Data Science focus) at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Originally from Ethiopia, he holds an undergraduate degree in Medical Imaging and possess extensive training in statistical theory, machine learning, and computational programming for clinical and epidemiological research.

At Tulane, he dual-serves as a Graduate Research Assistant for the Tulane Violence Prevention Institute—managing data and conducting descriptive and inferential analyses for violence-related research projects—and as a Graduate Teaching Assistant within the Department of Biostatistics and Data Science. His technical expertise includes database management, geospatial analysis (ArcGIS), reproducible workflows (Unix/Linux, GitHub), robust data visualization across R Shiny, ggplot2, Power BI, and Tableau, and inferential/predictive statistical modeling (Python, R). He aspires to leverage his clinical domain knowledge alongside data analytics expertise to advance clinical research and public health outcomes.

Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, Addaline earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a concentration in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender from Louisiana State University. She is currently pursuing her Master of Public Health in Community Health Sciences at Tulane University.

Addaline’s passion for public health is deeply personal. Her own experiences navigating healthcare and medical systems, along with witnessing the inequalities faced by the women in her life, sparked her interest in understanding how systems can shape health and well-being. These experiences have especially influenced her interest in maternal health and domestic violence as a public health issue. She is passionate about using research, statistics, and data analytics to better understand health inequities and support the implementation of programs and policies that can create meaningful change.
Throughout her academic and professional experiences, Adda

Meet the 2026-2028 Pincus Scholars! These scholars are emerging leaders dedicated to making a difference in communities ...
09/29/2026

Meet the 2026-2028 Pincus Scholars! These scholars are emerging leaders dedicated to making a difference in communities affected by violence in their future careers. Scroll to the right to learn more about each scholar!

Katerina is an MPH student in the department of Social, Behavioral, and Population Sciences at Tulane. In addition to pursuing a specialization in maternal and child health, she is interested in researching femicide, intimate-partner violence, and sexual violence.

Throughout her childhood and teen years, Katerina could not dismiss the indignation she felt at experiencing and observing gender-based violence and harassment. As a young adult, her awareness of how systems and individuals inflict violence against women developed as she completed her undergraduate studies and began to travel outside of the United States.

As an MPH candidate, Katerina intends to deepen her understanding of gender-based violence as a pervasive global public health crisis. She looks forward to working alongside community and government organizations to gain experience in violence prevention.

Katerina holds a B.A. in Political Science with minors in Spanish and Women’s and Gender Studies from Saint Louis University. In her free time, she enjoys learning languages and dancing.

Annabeth Mathews is an MPH student in the Social, Behavioral, and Population Sciences Department with a specialization in Maternal and Child Health. She grew up in Houston, Texas and is passionate about creating healthier communities by making the healthy choice the easy choice through evidence-based public health practice.

Annabeth studied public health with an emphasis on health promotion at Brigham Young University and graduated in 2024. For the last two years, she has been working in higher education as a Title IX Prevention Specialist.

Outside of the classroom, Annabeth can be found baking, going on walks, reading a mystery novel, or exploring New Orleans!

Lamont is originally from Houston, Texas and graduated from the University of Houston with their Bachelor of Science in Health with a minor in Legal Studies. During their time in undergraduate Lamont was actively involved in advoca

Register to attend our upcoming webinar, focused on commercial sexual exploitation and the carceral system, in collabora...
08/28/2026

Register to attend our upcoming webinar, focused on commercial sexual exploitation and the carceral system, in collaboration with the American Public Health Association. Tulane students, staff, and faculty can attend virtually or in person in Tidewater 1202.

Register using the QR above or using this link:

https://tulane.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OAyGc8vqRjyq0uNi0OV4wQ #/registration

August is Bystander Intervention Awareness Month. Bystander intervention is necessary to prevent interpersonal violence ...
08/04/2026

August is Bystander Intervention Awareness Month. Bystander intervention is necessary to prevent interpersonal violence in our communities. Practicing the three D’s of bystander intervention can help prevent potential harm and keep others safe.

We’re announcing an exciting new public tool we hope will inform fi***rm violence prevention and intervention efforts in...
07/20/2026

We’re announcing an exciting new public tool we hope will inform fi***rm violence prevention and intervention efforts in New Orleans: The New Orleans Fi***rm Violence Dashboard

Researchers linked New Orleans fi***rm homicides from 2019-2024 across data sources to create a mapping tool where you can:
* View fi***rm homicide deaths by neighborhood where incidents happened
* View fi***rm homicide deaths by residential neighborhood of those who died by fi***rm homicide
* See age, race, and gender information for those who died by fi***rm homicide
* Understand how neighborhood social and structural conditions (like poverty and racial and economic segregation) are associated with fi***rm homicide deaths in New Orleans

Scan the QR code to access the tool or visit bit.ly/NOfi***rmviolence

- A collaboration between Tulane’s Violence Prevention Institute (), the Vera Institute of Justice () and Washington University St. Louis (). Learn more about how we created the tool on our website.

Happy Juneteenth! We want to take the time to acknowledge and celebrate the ending of slavery in the United States. Alth...
06/19/2026

Happy Juneteenth! We want to take the time to acknowledge and celebrate the ending of slavery in the United States. Although we celebrate the freedom of Black Americans, there is more work to do to ensure equity for all. Slavery might have been abolished in 1865, but this system of control and violence towards Black Americans evolved over the years into Jim Crow, mass incarceration, and police violence.

The United States incarcerates more individuals than any other country in the world with nearly 2 million people in prisons and jails. Louisiana’s incarceration rate is 1,067 per 100,000 people, which is significantly higher than the national average (617 per 100,000 people). Due to structural racism, Black people are overrepresented in Louisiana’s carceral system. Not only are Black people disproportionately impacted by the carceral system, but they are also 2.8 times more likely to experience police violence. To ensure an equitable future for all, these inequities must be addressed at the ideological, institutional, interpersonal, and internalized levels of oppression which contribute to the violence that Black Americans face.

As part of this year’s Juneteenth celebration, enjoy this reading list to continue learning about Black history in the United States and the issues which impact Black communities today. We want to highlight Twisted Garden and Trinity City, graphic comics that the VPI are involved with, which specifically emphasize the importance of storytelling, youth empowerment, and reimagining the world and systems in which we live in.

Enjoy these Juneteenth reads:

If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance by Angela Davis

The End of Policing by Alex Vitale

Futures of Black Radicalism by Gaye Theresa Johnson & Alex Lubin

Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom by Derecka Purnell

African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song by Kevin Young

Kindred by Octavia Butler

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

A Black Women’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross

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