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.. • , -10- . . <br /> e ' <br /> been extended to a Longitudinal Intervention Study of High Risk Infants. <br /> Again, the incidence of child maltreatment is an important outcome under study. <br /> The two faculty members supervising the research component of the project <br /> are Dorothy F. Howze, M.S.W., Dr.P,H„ and Jonathan B, Kotch, M.D. M.P.H., <br /> both Assistant Professors in DMCH. Dr. Howze was a practicing social worker <br /> I <br /> prior to mat. culating in the doctoral program at the Harvard School of Public <br /> Health, where she was employed ,as a consultant to Dr.Bli Newberger's Family <br /> Development tudy. Her research focused on the quality of case management <br /> and its relationship to reincidence of child maltreatment. This research <br /> was an outgrowth of her involftment in the Berkeley Planning Association's <br /> Evaluation of the Eleven Child Abuse and Neglect Demonstration Projects. <br /> 1 - <br /> Dr. Rot I h is a pediatrician who, as a master's candidate in the University <br /> of North Car lina School of Public Health, led a team of students which <br /> developed a plan for the prevention of child maltreatment which was adopted . . <br /> by a county interagency child abuse prevention committee and funded by the <br /> United Way. His analysis of family and'employment diaracteristics which affect <br /> the confirma ion of reported cases Of abuse and neglect was selected for <br /> presentation at the 1982 annual meeting of the American Public Health Association. <br /> He and Dr. Howze were selected by the North Carolina Chapter of the National <br /> Committee for Child Abuse and Neglect to present workshops across the state' <br /> on therole of stress in the etiology -of child abuse. <br /> . , <br /> - . <br /> . . . <br /> . . <br /> . , <br />