The National Healthy Masculinity Conversation Series
Conversation #7
“Healthy Masculinity and a Regional Network to Address Campus Sexual Assault”
The seventh conversation featured:
Jane Palmer, PhD, American University
Pat McGann, PhD, MCSR
Greerlin Thomas, MA, MCSR
MCSR recently published “The Benefits and Challenges of a Regional Network to Address Campus Sexual Assault” in the journal Health Education & Behavior as part of a supplement issue on Campus Sexual Assault Policy and Prevention. Three of the authors – Pat McGann, PhD, MCSR; Jane Palmer, PhD, American University; Greerlin Thomas, MA, MCSR – will discuss how the regional network supported the advancement of healthy masculinity on the campuses.
READ THE ARTICLE: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1090198120909811
LINK TO SUPPLEMENT ISSUE: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/hebc/47/1_suppl
CONVERSATIONALISTS’ BIOS:
Patrick McGann, Ph.D., as MCSR’s Director of Strategy & Planning, creates effective long- and short-term strategy and planning for current and future developments regarding mobilizing men for gender-based violence prevention. He has managed large-scale federal projects for the Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women’s Health, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women. In 2008, he co-authored a comprehensive Sexual Assault Prevention Strategy for the U.S. Department of Defense. Dr. McGann has overseen the development of public service announcement (PSA) campaigns that have been recognized as the nation's best-designed and most effective sexual-assault-prevention PSA outreach to men and boys. He played a key role in planning and implementing the 2012 Healthy Masculinity Action Project, a national multi-year initiative that reached more than 60,000,000 people with its positive messages and launched an international healthy masculinity movement.
Dr. Jane Palmer a professorial lecturer in justice, law and criminology and the faculty director of the Community-Based Research Scholars program at American University. Her research focuses on ending gender-based violence through prevention, promoting help-seeking, and improving legal/policy responses. Recent publications have examined preventing perpetration, impacts of Title IX, and predictors of disclosure for students at HBCUs and PWIs. Prior to coming to AU, she was the director of a non-violence education organization with programs for male perpetrators of domestic violence.
Greerlin Thomas is a program manager for MCSR’s Training and Technical Assistance Department. For more than a decade, he has served MCSR in multiple ways, such as facilitating MCSR’s award-winning Men of Strength Clubs at the middle school, high school, and university levels, conducting trainings across the country, and developing new training and curriculum sessions. Greerlin has extensive experience providing federal training and technical assistance (TTA) to federal grantees in the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) Campus Program and the Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women’s Health (OWH) Campus Sexual Assault Policy and Prevention (CSAPP) Initiative. Fulfilling MCSR’s role as the Engaging Men TA Provider for the OVW Campus Program, he provided expert training and guidance to more than 150 college campus grantees from across the country, from community colleges to liberal arts schools to faith-based institutions to historically black universities and colleges to small and large state schools. He also created training materials for campus grantees to use in efforts to more effectively engage LGBTQ campus men in primary prevention with measurable outcomes. He is a co-author of a study about MCSR’s OWH DMV CSAPP initiative that appeared in Health Education & Behavior. His M.A. is from American University.