{"id":61027,"date":"2022-11-29T13:55:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T18:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/?p=61027"},"modified":"2026-01-30T15:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:57:00","slug":"prof-margaret-lombe-shares-expertise-gender-based-violence-national-center-ptsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/prof-margaret-lombe-shares-expertise-gender-based-violence-national-center-ptsd\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Margaret Lombe Shares Expertise on Gender-Based Violence at National Center for PTSD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BU School of Social Work\u2019s (BUSSW) Professor Margaret Lombe\u00a0 presented her research on women\u2019s health outcomes in conflict settings as part of the US Department of Veteran Affairs\u2019 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ptsd.va.gov\/about\/divisions\/womens\/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (PTSD) lecture series. \u201cFrom a global social justice perspective, there\u2019s a lack of attention on how war affects women\u2019s well-being,\u201d says Professor Lombe. Women are especially at risk of experiencing gender-based violence, which has impacts on individual, societal, and national levels. \u201cOne in three women globally have been subjected to physical or sexual violence at least once in their life, a situation worsened in conflict and post-conflict societies.\u201d Her talk, entitled \u201cThe Untold Story: Women, War &amp; Weaponization of Gender-Based Violence,\u201d also explored how researchers and practitioners can build more sensitive interventions for those who experience gender-based violence.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/profile\/margaret-lombe\/\"><b>Learn More About Professor Lombe\u2019s Research<\/b><\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BU School of Social Work\u2019s (BUSSW) Professor Margaret Lombe\u00a0 presented her research on women\u2019s health outcomes in conflict settings as part of the US Department of Veteran Affairs\u2019 National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) lecture series. \u201cFrom a global social justice perspective, there\u2019s a lack of attention on how war affects women\u2019s well-being,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19132,"featured_media":59679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7435,7427,7515,4057,7522],"tags":[8288,8295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61027"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76230,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61027\/revisions\/76230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}