Rachel Jewkes

Rachel Jewkes is Unit Director of the Gender and Health Unit of the Medical Research Council, based in Pretoria, South Africa,[1] and a member of the National Council Against Gender-Based Violence in South Africa.[2] Jewkes studied Medicine, receiving a Masters in Community Medicine (MSc) and a Doctorate in Medicine (MD) from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, University of London.[1] She is an Honorary Professor in the faculty of Health Sciences, School of Public Health at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.[3] Jewkes is the Secretary of the Sexual Violence Research Initiative and a regional member of the WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Injury and Violence Prevention and Control.[1] She is a member of the PEPFAR Scientific Advisory Board and the WHO's Strategic and Technical Advisory Committee for HIV-AIDS (STAC-HIV).[1] Jewkes moved from England to South Africa in 1994.[4]

Recent research

A UN-sponsored study coauthored by Jewkes on male violence against women in Asia and the Pacific reported that a high number of men admitted to sexual violence.[5][6] Survey researchers have questioned the plausibility of some of the findings of this study.[7] In 2013 Jewkes also published on depressive symptoms after sexual assault,[8] the epidemiology of child homicides[9] and intimate femicide-suicide.[10]

Publications

Sexual violence

Homicide and femicide

Women's health

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "South African Medical Research Council Contact Page". Retrieved 25 November 2013.
  2. Gould, Chandre. "On the Record: Professor Rachel Jewkes" (PDF). Institute for Security Studies. ISS. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
  3. "Prof Rachel Jewkes receives NRF 'A' rating". University of Witwatersrand. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
  4. Shea, Rachel (14 September 2013). "UN Study Looks at High Rate of Rape". Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  5. "Almost a quarter of men 'admit to rape in parts of Asia'". BBC News. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
  6. Alexander, Ruth. "How Many Men in Asia Admit to Rape?". BBC News. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
  7. Gutbrod H, Erlich A (December 2013). "Implausible incarceration data need to be addressed". The Lancet. Global Health 1 (6): e334–5. doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(13)70142-6. PMID 25104595.
  8. Abrahams N, Jewkes R, Mathews S (July 2013). "Depressive symptoms after a sexual assault among women: understanding victim-perpetrator relationships and the role of social perceptions". African Journal of Psychiatry 16 (4): 288–93. doi:10.4314/ajpsy.v16i4.39. PMID 24051569.
  9. Mathews S, Abrahams N, Jewkes R, Martin LJ, Lombard C (August 2013). "The epidemiology of child homicides in South Africa". Bulletin of the World Health Organization 91 (8): 562–8. doi:10.2471/BLT.12.117036. PMC 3738312. PMID 23940403.
  10. Mathews S, Abrahams N, Jewkes R, Martin LJ, Lombard C, Vetten L (July 2008). "Intimate femicide-suicide in South Africa: a cross-sectional study". Bulletin of the World Health Organization 86 (7): 552–58. doi:10.1590/S0042-96862008000700015. PMC 2647481. PMID 18670666.