Francisca Maria Andrade (MD, MPH) is currently Project Officer for UNICEF Ceará, Brazil. At the time the study reported in this issue was conducted, she was the Head Official for the Adolescent Health Unit, State Secretariat of Health of Ceará.

Elizabeth M. Banister is a Professor of Nursing at the University of Victoria. Her research interests include knowledge transfer strategies in community-based research, adolescent dating violence and adolescent sexual health education. She is a registered nurse and registered psychologist and maintains a small private counselling practice serving teens, adults and families.

Deborah L. Begoray is a Professor of Education at the University of Victoria. Her teaching and research interests are in health education and literacy issues for adolescents, both in the schools and in the wider community. She has developed curricular materials for the public school system and for universities in British Columbia, Alberta and Manitoba.

Carolyn Rebecca Block is Senior Research Analyst at the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority. A founder of the Homicide Research Working Group, she is principal investigator of the Chicago Women’s Health Risk Study and maintains the Chicago Homicide Dataset. She is currently doing collaborative research using both of those data sets.

Jocileide Sales Campos (MD, MSc.) is currently Head of Primary Care, Ceará School of Public Health. At the time the study reported in this issue was conducted, she was the Head Official for the Child Health Unit, State Secretariat of Health of Ceará.

Walter S. DeKeseredy (Ph.D) is Professor of Criminology, Justice and Policy Studies at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. He has published 12 books and over 60 refereed journal articles on topics such as woman abuse, poverty and crime, and criminological theory. His current research focuses on hate crimes on Canadian university and community college campuses.

Tamara Dubowitz (MSc, SM, DSc.) is currently an Associate Policy Researcher at the RAND Corporation. At the time the study reported in this issue was conducted, she was a doctoral student in the Department of Society, Human Development & Health.

Ana Cristina Lindsay (DDS, MPH, DrPH) is a Research Scientist and Co-Director of the Public Health Nutrition program, department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health. At the time the study reported in this issue was conducted, she was also a Visiting Resaercher at the Federal University of Ceara.

Karen E. Peterson (RD, DSc.) is Director of the Public Health Nutrition Program and Associate Professor in the Departments of Nutrition and Society, Human Development & Health.

Britta Saltonstall (M. Ed.) is a doctoral candidate in the College of Education at the University of Washington. She has a research focus on family experiences with disability, and a clinical specialty in services for children with autism spectrum disorders.

Aysan Sev’er (Ph.D.) is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Her current research focuses on extreme forms of violence against women in India and in south-eastern Turkey. She is the founding editor of the Women’s Health & Urban Life Journal and the recipient of the Canadian Women’s Studies Book Award for 2004. Currently, she is serving as the Special Advisor to the Principal on Equity Issues at University of Toronto at Scarborough.

The Women's Health & Urban Life: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal is generously funded by the Wellesley Central Health Corporation and is permanently housed at the Sociology Department, University of Toronto. The founder and the first general editor is Aysan Sev'er, University of Toronto.