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 Lindsay Stark
Assistant Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health
Email: LS2302@columbia.edu
Lindsay Stark, DrPH, is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health in Columbia University's Program on Forced Migration and Health. She has over a decade of experience leading applied research on protection of women and children in humanitarian settings. Dr. Stark's particular area of expertise is measuring sensitive and difficult-to-measure social phenomenon. Dr. Stark has led assessment and evaluation projects in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. She has also helped pioneer the development of new methodologies such as the Neighborhood Method to assess incidence of human rights violations, a Participatory Ranking Method that has been included in a recent World Health Organization assessment toolkit, and the Child Protection Rapid Assessment in Emergencies Toolkit developed by the global Child Protection Working Group. In 2011, Dr. Stark was the recipient of two awards for her dissertation work including the Benton Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Sociomedical Sciences, and the Center for the Study of Social Inequalities and Health's award for Best Dissertation. She was also the recipient of the 2011 Award for Excellence in Global Health. Dr. Stark is the author of multiple publications on the rehabilitation and resiliency of former child soldiers and survivors of sexual violence, and currently serves as the Director of Research and Curriculum at the Center on Child Protection, a teaching and research center jointly established by Columbia University, the University of Indonesia, UNICEF and the Government of Indonesia.
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Stark, L. Roberts, L., Acham, A., Boothby, N., Ager, A. (2010). Measuring violence against women amidst war and displacement in northern Uganda. The Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 64(12).
Stark, L. and Ager, A. (2011). A systematic review of prevalence studies of gender based violence in complex emergencies" Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 12(3), pp. 127 - 134.
Stark, L., Boothby, N., Ager, A. (2009). Children and fighting forces: Ten years on from Cape Town. Disasters: The Journal of Disaster Studies Policy and Management, 33(4): 522-547.
Stark, L. (2006). Cleansing the wounds of war: An examination of traditional healing, psychosocial health and reintegration in Sierra Leone. Intervention: International Journal of Mental Health, Psychosocial Work and Counseling in Areas of Armed Conflict, 4(3).
Stark, L. (2006). Community acceptance of former child soldiers: Literature review and summary analysis. The Community Psychologist, 39(4).
Stark, L., Ager, A., Wessells, M. & Boothby, N. (2009). Developing culturally relevant indicators of reintegration for girls formerly associated with armed groups in Sierra Leone using a participative ranking methodology. Intervention: International Journal of Mental Health,
Psychosocial Work and Counseling in Areas of Armed Conflict, 7(1).
Ager, A., Stark, L., Olsen, J. and Boothby, N. (2010) The impact of programming supporting the reintegration of girls formerly abducted by armed groups in Sierra Leone. Girlhood Studies, 3(1).
Ager, A., Stark, L., Akesson, B., Boothby, N. (2010) Defining best practice in care and protection of children in crisis-affected settings: A delphi study [of expert practitioners]. Child Development, 81(4).
Ager, A., Akesson, B., Stark, L., Okot, B., McCollister, F., Flouri, E. Boothby, N. The impact of the school-based Psychosocial Structured Activities (PSSA) program on conflict-affected children in northern Uganda. The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Online first.
Stark, L. Victims of conflict: Rehabilitation. (2009). International Encyclopedia of Peace. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Murphy, M., Stark, L., Wessells, M., Boothby, N. Ager, A. (2011). Fortifying barriers: Sexual violence as an obstacle to girls’ school participation in northern Uganda. In Julia Paulson (Ed.), Conflict, education and peacebuilding: Oxford studies in comparative education. Oxfordshire: Symposium Books.
Stark, L. and Wessells, M. The fallacy of the ticking time bomb:Resilience of children associated with armed forces and groups. In Chandi Fernando and Michel Ferrari (Eds.). The handbook on promoting resilience in children. Springer. (forthcoming)
Boothby, N. and Stark, L. Data surveillance in child protection systems development: An Indonesian case study. Child Abuse & Neglect: International Journal. (forthcoming)
Ager, A., Blake, C., Stark, L., Daniel, T. Child protection assessment in humanitarian emergencies: Case studies from Georgia, Gaza, Haiti and Yemen. Child Abuse & Neglect: International Journal. (forthcoming)
Ager, A. Stark, L., Chu, E., Shaw, S. Developing a template for national child protection index reports. . Child Abuse & Neglect: International Journal. (forthcoming)
Publications: Reports, Assessment & Evaluation Tools
Rapid Appraisal in Humanitarian Emergencies Using Participatory Ranking Methodology (PRM), Alastair Ager, Lindsay Stark, Thalia Sparling & Wendy Ager Version 1.1, February 2011.
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