Victim Researcher Profile

BIO

Danielle Davidov is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences in School of Public Health at West Virginia University. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Marshall University in 2006 and her Doctorate in Public Health Sciences from West Virginia University in 2010. She uses qualitative and mixed methods to address intimate partner and sexual violence in home visitation, healthcare, and college settings. She is particularly interested in the intersections between trauma/violence and other related health disparity issues, such as mental health and substance abuse. Dr. Davidov’s dissertation work focused on mandatory reporting of intimate partner violence and children’s exposure to intimate partner violence within the context of the Nurse-Family Partnership home visitation program. Dr. Davidov has participated in three competitive training programs: 1) Research Training Program in the Behavioral and Biomedical Sciences (NIGMS T32), 2) Building Careers for Research in Child Maltreatment and Intimate Partner Violence: Early Career Scholar Interdisciplinary Training Program (NICHD R25), and 3) the Canadian-Institutes of Health-sponsored Preventing Violence Across the Lifespan (PreVAiL) Research Network. Since 2012, she has received a continuous Loan Repayment Program Award from the National Institutes on Minority Health and Health Disparities to study intimate partner violence in the Appalachian region. She is currently working with the West Virginia Coalition Against Domestic Violence on a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)-funded project aimed at improving the healthcare system’s response to intimate partner violence in West Virginia. She is also working with researchers at the University of Kentucky on the Multiple College Bystander Efficacy Evaluation (McBee) project, which is focused on understanding which violence prevention bystander training programs are most effective in increasing prevention behaviors and reducing violence on college campuses.

VICTIMIZATION FOCUS

Campus Sexual Assault, Domestic and Family Violence, Sexual Abuse or Violence (other than campus sexual assault)

SPECIAL POPULATIONS

Rural victims

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

Community-based participatory research, Descriptive studies, Needs assessment, Qualitative studies

VICTIM RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Community-based participatory research, Data collection, Descriptive studies, Needs assessment, Program evaluation, Qualitative studies, Quantitative studies, Quasi-experimental studies