Postdoctoral researcher Carol Coll wins Wellcome fellowship and will join DOVE in January 2021

The postdoctoral researcher of the International Center for Equity in Health, Carolina Coll, was awarded the International Fellowship Training of the Wellcome Trust Foundation, based in London in the United Kingdom. In the next three years her research proposal aims to investigate the impacts of domestic violence on parenting and child development in the context of low and middle income countries, including Brazil. To answer her research questions Carolina will use data from nationally representative household surveys (DHS) and a Brazilian birth cohort (2015 Pelotas Birth Cohort Study). The project is going be developed in collaboration with the International Center for Equity in Health and the Human Development and Violence Research Center at the Federal University of Pelotas in Brazil and will contemplate a period of training at the University of Oxford (Department of Psychiatry) and the Gender Violence and Health Centre from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. At the International Center for Equity, Carolina has been involved in research projects on gender based violence and women’s health with a global focus. She recently led a manuscript describing intimate partner violence levels and related inequalities in 46 low and middle income countries that was published in a collection of articles at the BMJ Global Health developed in partnership with the Countdown to 2030 Initiative aimed to track progress of women’s children’s and adolescent’s health towards the sustainable development goals. More recently, Carolina is also working as a consultant to the Lancet Commission on Gender-based Violence and Maltreatment of Young People which was launched this year and count with expertise of more than 30 renowned researchers with the aim of advance the scientific evidence in the area and promote prevention and response strategies to reduce the burden of suffering and disease caused by gender based violence and maltreatment of young people at the global level.