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Modelling the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on violent discipline against children

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Event type: Webinar

events23 March 2021time13:00 - 14:00 CET

Several months into the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers across the globe are attempting to find out how the health and socioeconomic crisis brought about by the coronavirus is affecting children’s exposure to violence. Four articles published in the Child Abuse and Neglect Journal provide valuable insights.

On Tuesday 23rd March at 13:00 CET, UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti presents its 4th webinar on the modelled effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on violent discipline against children as part of the webinar series on Violence against children & COVID-19.

 

Panelists

Claudia Cappa, Researcher at the CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology (IFC) 

Dr Amiya Bhatia, Research Fellow in Social Epidemiology and Child Protection 

Camilla Fabbri, Research Fellow in the Child Protection Research Group within the Gender Violence and Health Centre

Alessandra Guedes, Gender and development manager (Research)


Experts

Alessandra Guedes

UNICEF Innocenti

Claudia Cappa
Senior Statistics Specialist at UNICEF
Dr Amiya Bhatia
Research Fellow in Social Epidemiology and Child Protection, LSHTM
Camilla Fabbri
Research Fellow, Gender Violence and Health Centre, LSHTM

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