"One Billion Rising" at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

On 13–14 February 2013, as part of the “One Billion Rising” Campaign, students and staff at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) in Baltimore, MD, USA, joined millions of people throughout the world to demand an end to violence against women and girls. Inspired by Eve Ensler’s play, The Vagina Monologues, the Campaign marked the 15th anniversary of V-Day, a global activist movement to end one of the most pervasive forms of violence. This year, events took place in 207 countries throughout the world, the most in its history. This year, for the first time students and staff at JHSPH, organized lectures and panel events, photo essays, information giveaways and a performance of the official One Billion Rising flash mob dance, done in solidarity with hundreds of similar performances globally, which asked people to “Strike*Dance*Rise” against GBV. This article is a reflection on that experience and the broader role that public health students can play in the fight against GBV. Gender-based violence is a global epidemic from which no country is immune. Although recognized as a serious public health problem, it has not received nearly enough attention at Johns Hopkins; yet as public health students, we are uniquely situated to address the issue. Hence, student leaders and faculty members from across departments came together in late January 2013 to plan how to raise awareness of GBV within the Hopkins community. It was a pivotal moment for taking action, as several events had brought the issue to public consciousness, including the gang rapes of a 23-year-old woman in India and a 17-year-old girl in South

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