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Charlotte Watts is a Lecturer in Epidemiology and Health Policy at the Health Policy Unit at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is currently Senior Technical Advisor to a WHO multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence against women. Between 1993 and 1996 she was seconded to the University of Zimbabwe, and worked with the Musasa Project (an NGO working to challenge violence against women) to conduct action-oriented research on violence against women in Zimbabwe. Elizabeth Shrader works in the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Division, Latin America and Caribbean Region at the World Bank on the Urban Peace Program. During the decade prior to her joining the World Bank last year, Ms Shrader lived in Mexico and Central America, working as a consultant to numerous international and Latin American organizations on issues of violence, health and economic development. From 1995 to 1997, she was research technical assistant to the “Ruta Critica” project for the Pan American Health Organization.