Pamela Pine, Stop the Silence: Stop Child Sexual Abuse

Pamela Pine, PhD, MPH, Founder and the Key Advisor of Stop the Silence: Stop Child Sexual Abuse, Inc. (Stop the Silence), which focuses on Awareness, Prevention, and Healing regarding child sexual abuse (CSA), with a primary focus on bringing international attention and action to mitigate CSA. Dr. Pine has been designing, managing, implementing, and providing technical assistance to a wide range of local, national, and international health programming (e.g., training; community outreach and education; community mobilization; media outreach, advocacy; social marketing; policy development) focused on enhancing the lives of the poor and otherwise underserved groups for over 25 years. She has worked on various health, community development, and information, education and communication (IEC) programs (e.g., reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, leprosy, immunization, nutrition, maternal/child health) throughout the world (e.g., Albania, Egypt, India, Philippines, Turkey, United States, Yemen, Zambia, Zaire). Her background includes work with children with special needs, people with TB, leprosy, HIV/AIDS, abused children; battered, poor, and incarcerated women. Dr. Pine committed herself to working comprehensively on CSA over 10 years ago having learned about the extent and severity of the problem and its impact. She inc. Stop the Silence as a 501-c-3 in 2004, since that time, Stop the Silence has been providing creative and impactful programming to help comprehensively prevent and mitigate child sexual abuse.  Pine continues, to provide assistance to national and international health and development programs and projects and holds an Adjunct appointment with the University of South Florida College of Public Health and also is an instructor of Arabic with the America Public University System (APUS). She speaks Arabic and French.