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Catherine Stayton is the Director of the Injury Epidemiology Unit in the Bureau of Epidemiology Services at the New York City (NYC) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) and adjunct assistant professor in Epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She oversees DOHMH’s Female Homicide Surveillance and Injury Surveillance System. She is author of NYC’s first comprehensive report, published in 2008, on the scope of intimate partner violence and its health effects. Dr. Stayton also oversees the Unit’s data-driven prevention planning in the areas of intimate partner violence, teen dating violence, youth violence and suicide. She co-chairs DOHMH’s Domestic Violence Steering Committee which develops and implements intra- and inter-agency domestic violence prevention initiatives.

Dr. Stayton serves on the Steering Committee of Columbia University’s Center for Youth Violence Prevention, the Research Advisory Committee of NYC’s Alliance Against Sexual Assault, and NYC’s Domestic Violence Fatality Review Committee. She is also an advisor to the New York State Domestic Violence Coalition Prevention Planning.