Ellsberg received her bachelor's degree in Latin American studies from Yale University.[3] In 2000, she obtained her Ph.D. in epidemiology and public health from Umeå University in Sweden, where she wrote a thesis on domestic violence against women in Nicaragua.[4]
Nicaragua
In 1979 Ellsberg moved to Nicaragua to work for peace and social justice, and she lived there for almost 20 years. During this time she participated in the Nicaraguan Literacy Campaign and worked with vaccination and health consultation programs on the Caribbean coast for the Nicaragua Department of Health. Subsequently, in 1995 she did a prevalence study on domestic violence in Nicaragua, finding that 50% of women had been beaten or raped by their partner. This study was used to pass the country's first domestic violence law in 1996. In 2000, she defended her Ph.D. thesis at Umeå University on domestic violence in Nicaragua. After moving back to the United States, she has continued to conduct domestic violence research in Nicaragua.[3][5][6]
Ellsberg has studied domestic violence against women around the world, including Nicaragua, Melanesia, and South Sudan.[7][8] She was a member of the core research team of the World Health Organization's Multi-Country Study on Domestic Violence and Women's Health, which compared ten countries in terms of prevalence, risk factors and consequences of intimate partner violence.[3][9][10][11]
Selected publications
1999 Domestic violence and emotional distress among Nicaraguan women: Results from a population-based study, Ellsberg M, Caldera T, Herrera A, Winkvist A, Kullgren G.[12]
1999 Wife abuse among women of childbearing age in Nicaragua, Ellsberg MC, Pena R, Herrera A, Liljestrand J, Winkvist A.[13]
2000 Candies in hell: women's experiences of violence in Nicaragua. Social science & medicine, Ellsberg M, Peña R, Herrera A, Liljestrand J, Winkvist A.[14]
2001 Researching domestic violence against women: methodological and ethical considerations, Ellsberg M, Heise L, Pena R, Agurto S, Winkvist A.[15]
2006 Prevalence of intimate partner violence: findings from the WHO multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence, Garcia-Moreno C, Jansen HA, Ellsberg M, Heise L, Watts CH.[9]
2008 Intimate partner violence and women's physical and mental health in the WHO multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence: an observational study, Ellsberg M, Jansen HA, Heise L, Watts CH, Garcia-Moreno C.[10]
2011 What factors are associated with recent intimate partner violence? Findings from the WHO multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence, Abramsky T, Watts CH, Garcia-Moreno C, Devries K, Kiss L, Ellsberg M, Jansen HA, Heise L.[11]
2015 Prevention of violence against women and girls: what does the evidence say? Ellsberg M, Arango DJ, Morton M, Gennari F, Kiplesund S, Contreras M, Watts C.[16]
2020 Long-term change in the prevalence of intimate partner violence: a 20-year follow-up study in León, Nicaragua, 1995–2016, Ellsberg M, Ugarte W, Ovince J, et al.[17]
↑Ellsberg M, Peña R, Herrera A, Liljestrand J, Winkvist A. Candies in Hell: Women's Experiences of Violence in Nicaragua. Social science & medicine. 2000 Dec 1;51(11):1595-610.
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