About the Author
GARY SLUTKIN, MD is a physician and epidemiologist, widely recognized for pioneering the epidemic control approach to violence. 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. Returning to the US in 2000, he founded and led Cure Violence Global to adapt these methods to control and reduce violence in communities across the US and around the world. Dr. Slutkin has presented the science and results of treating violence as an epidemic disease to the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, the State Department, Harvard Law School, the Institute of Medicine, MIT, the United States Congress, and the National Intelligence Council. The success of his approach 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.
