Dr. Martha Coulter and COPH alumna Melissa Mercado-Crespo published “Co-occurrence of intimate partner violence and child maltreatment: Service providers perceptions.”  The research appears in the February issue of the Journal of Family Violence.

Coulter is a professor in the USF College of Public Health’s Department of Community and Family Health.  She also directs The Harrell Center, an intermediary between research and practice that seeks to end family violence by understanding it.  Mercado-Crespo is one of 3,000 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

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Coulter, M., Mercado-Crespo, M. (2015) Co-occurrence of intimate partner violence and child maltreatment: Service providers perceptions. Journal of Family Violence.  DOI 10.1007/s10896-014-9667-5.

The research is posted online.