Author: Elise Lopez

Elise Lopez (DrPH, MPH) is the inaugural director of the University of Arizona (UA) Consortium on Gender-Based Violence and and an assistant professor of practice at the UA College of Public Health. She previously served as the assistant director of Relationship Violence Programs at the University of Arizona’s College of Public Health. She has worked in public health research and practice since 2004, specializing in restorative justice, adolescent health, substance abuse, trauma, and prevention of and response to sexual violence.

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College Students Are Still Being Raped During the COVID-19 Shutdown: How Prevention and Response Mechanisms Must Adapt

Elizabeth J. Anderson, Mary P. Koss and Elise Lopez

The pandemic is increasing many of the environmental and social conditions that facilitate sexual assault. In this context, campus administrators must take concrete steps to protect vulnerable students—grounded in the abundance of evidence that reveals what works.

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