CYP Now - Tackling CSA with public health, USA

CYP Now has teamed up with the Churchill Fellowship to publish a series of articles summarising key findings from studies undertaken worldwide by Churchill Fellows.

Pat Branigan is assistant director at the NSPCC and a medical anthropologist. Picture: Pat Branigan

This is an abridged version of Exploring the need for a widely adopted and accessible public health framework to address child sexual abuse in the UK by Pat Branigan, an assistant director at the NSPCC and medical anthropologist with a background in public health. For his Churchill Fellowship Branigan travelled to North America in late 2022 to meet and speak with experts in the field of child sexual abuse (CSA) prevention and treatment. This included a week in residence with the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at the Pennsylvania State University.

The findings draw on experiences and ideas from the US and Canada to build on current prevention frameworks and activities in use in the UK. The report explores gaps in prevention initiatives and thinking and recommends a way forward to develop a shared framework informed by the latest thinking from North America.

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