| Dr.
Howard Spivak is Chief of the Division of General Pediatrics
and Adolescent Medicine and Vice President for Community Health
Programs at New England Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.
He is Professor of Pediatrics and Community Health at Tufts
University School of Medicine, and Adjunct Professor in the
Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development. Previously, he
has served as Deputy Commissioner of Public Health for the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts and, prior to that, as Director of Adolescent
Health Services for the City of Boston.
Dr.
Spivak has been involved with activities in youth violence
prevention for almost 20 years. These activities have included:
co-founding of the Boston Violence Prevention Program (the
first community-based public health violence prevention program
in the nation); development of the Office of Violence Prevention
for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (the first such state
level initiative in the nation); authorship of numerous articles,
book chapters, and editorials on the issue of violence prevention
among youth; participation in numerous studies and evaluations
of youth violence prevention efforts; and development of the
first emergency room surveillance initiative on weapon-related
injuries. He speaks regularly around the nation on youth violence
prevention strategies and works on an ongoing basis with many
communities in the development of violence prevention programs.
Currently, Dr. Spivak chairs the American Academy of Pediatrics
Task Force on Violence, is a member of the steering committee
of the American Medical Association Commission on Youth Violence
Prevention, and co-chairs the Violent Injury Prevention Expert
Panel for a national project developing health guidelines
for U.S. schools (the Health, Mental Health, and Safety in
Schools Project). He works with the National Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention in the development of Guidelines for
School Programs to Prevent Violence and Injury, and has ongoing
involvement with the US Department of Justice Office of Juvenile
Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
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