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Dr. Elizabeth Anderson is a Senior Research and Evaluation Manager based in the U.S. She manages research for the Freedom Fund’s hotspots in Brazil and sub-Saharan Africa and is a steering committee member for the Monitoring and Evaluation of Trafficking in Persons (METIP) community of practice. Prior to joining the Freedom Fund, Elizabeth was a Research Scientist at the International Center for Research on Women where she led research on child, early, and forced marriage, reproductive health and rights, and gender-based violence. She is a returned Peace Corps Volunteer who served in Mozambique and an alumnus of AmeriCorps in the U.S.-Mexico border region. Elizabeth holds a PhD in Public Health and an MPH from the University of Arizona where her research focused on sexual assault, intimate partner violence, and vector-borne infectious disease.

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Senior Research and Evaluation Manager

Freedom Fund

Mar-2023 to Present

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The Scope of Rape Victimization and Perpetration Among National Samples of College Students Across 30 years

Research Questions: Rape prevention practice and policy have roots in data from 1985. This study uses 2015 national data to project recent prevalence, assesses whether rates now differ from ...

  • dott image October, 2021

WhatsApp-Based Focus Groups Among Mexican-Origin Women in Zika Risk Area: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Data Quality

Background: Despite unprecedented advances in worldwide access to the internet via smartphones, barriers to engaging hard-to-reach populations remain in many methods of health research. A p...

  • dott image April, 2021

Knowledge of Sexual Transmission of Zika Virus Among Women Who Are Pregnant or Intend to Become Pregnant, Arizona, 2017

Objectives Levels of knowledge about the sexual transmission of Zika virus are consistently low in populations at risk of a mosquito-borne outbreak, including among women of childbearing ag...

  • dott image July, 2020

29 - Sexual Assault from Section 5 - Inequality and Social Justice

Sexual assault, including unwanted sexual contact, coercion, and rape, is a social phenomenon that has been approached in a variety of ways in different global contexts. Attempts to address ...

  • dott image April, 2020

Sexual assault.

Sexual assault is universal in human societies throughout recorded history. It changes lives forever, but not necessarily for the worse. More women are victimized and most perpetrators are m...

  • dott image January, 2020

Women’s Health Perceptions and Beliefs Related to Zika Virus Exposure during the 2016 Outbreak in Northern Brazil

During the 2016 Zika pandemic in Brazil, women’s perceptions of infection risk, ability to adhere to Zika prevention strategies, or access to services following exposure were not emphasize...

  • dott image November, 2019

Web-Based and mHealth Interventions for Intimate Partner Violence Victimization Prevention: A Systematic Review

Mobile health (mHealth) technologies are increasingly used across health programming including intimate partner violence (IPV) prevention to optimize screening, educational outreach, and lin...

  • dott image July, 2019

Web-based and mHealth interventions for intimate partner violence prevention: a systematic review protocol

Introduction Victims of intimate partner violence (IPV), or those individuals susceptible to IPV victimisation or perpetration, may benefit from participation in primary, secondary or tertia...