The National Healthy Masculinity Conversation Series
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Conversation #5
Healthy Masculinity and the United States Military
The fifth conversation featured:
Dr. Nathan W. Galbreath, PH.D., M.F.S., Deputy Director, United States Department of Defense Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO)
Patrick McGann, Ph.D., Director of Strategy and Planning, MCSR.
In 2008, Pat McGann, Director of Strategy and Planning, MCSR, collaborated with Dr. Nate Galbreath, Deputy Director, United States Department of Defense Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office, to create a Department of Defense Sexual Assault Prevention Strategy for all the Service Branches. This conversation will explore where sexual assault prevention in the military was then, where it is now, and how aspects of the military’s prevention work might connect with healthy masculinity.
Dr. Nate Galbreath is the Deputy Director for the Department of Defense Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO). In this position, he is the Department’s expert for prevention and response programs and their relationship to behavioral health, forensic science, criminal investigation, and sex offender assessment and treatment. The Department selected Dr. Galbreath in December 2016 to be a senior executive and fill the role of Deputy. Dr. Galbreath previously served as the Department’s Highly Qualified Expert on Sexual Assault Prevention and Response from 2012 to 2014. He has been affiliated with SAPRO since May 2007 when he served as SAPRO’s first military deputy director before retiring from the Air Force in 2009. Dr. Galbreath’s clinical experience focused on treating and researching sexual dysfunction and sexual disorders. He also evaluated and treated sex offenders with Dr. Fred S. Berlin at the National Institute for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Trauma, which is affiliated with the Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, MD.
Dr. Galbreath maintains close ties to the law enforcement community. He has provided training at national and international conferences hosted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, the Norwegian Ministry of Defence, and other non-governmental organizations. He serves as a Professorial Lecturer in the Forensic Sciences at the George Washington University, where he created one of the nation’s first graduate level courses on child abuse investigations. He also teaches a graduate course on sexual assault investigations.