Westminster Town Hall Forum

Deborah Prothrow-Stith is a nationally recognized expert on teen violence and the assistant dean for Government and Community Programs at Harvard University's School of Public Health. She is the author of the first violence-prevention curriculum for schools and of the critically-acclaimed book, Deadly Consequences: How Violence Is Destroying Our Teenage Population and a Plan to Begin Solving the Problem. Her interest in adolescent violence began with her work as a staff physician in Boston area hospitals. An alumna of Spelman College and Harvard Medical School, she was the first woman, and the youngest person, to serve as Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Health.