Watts founded the Gender Violence Research Centre at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.[9] This team collaborated in 2012 with Liz Kelly and colleagues at the
Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit, London Metropolitan University and
Nicole Westmarland and her research team at
Durham University's Crime, Violence and Abuse group to assess the impact of community domestic violence perpetrator programmes on women and children's safety, as well as investigating related questions such as which specific factors enable violent men to change their behaviour.[10] The research was supported by
Respect, the UK's umbrella organisation for domestic violence perpetrator programmes.[11]
Watts has done field work on gender based violence at the Musasa Project in Zimbabwe. The project is a women's NGO working to address the widespread violence against women in Zimbabwe.[12] Her former doctoral students include
Cathy Zimmerman.[1]
Pronyk, Paul M; Hargreaves, James R; Kim, Julia C; Morison, Linda A; Phetla, Godfrey; Watts, Charlotte; Busza, Joanna; Porter, John DH (December 2006). "Effect of a structural intervention for the prevention of intimate-partner violence and HIV in rural South Africa: a cluster randomised trial". The Lancet. 368 (9551): 1973–1983.
doi:
10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69744-4.
PMID17141704.
S2CID14146492.
García-Moreno, Claudia; Pallitto, Christina; Devries, Karen; Stöckl, Heidi; Watts, Charlotte; Abrahams, Naeema (2013). Global and regional estimates of violence against women: prevalence and health effects of intimate partner violence and non-partner sexual violence. Geneva: World Health Organization.
ISBN9789241564625.
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abc"Watts, Prof. Charlotte Helen, (born 5 Oct. 1962), Professor of Social and Mathematical Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, since 2006; Chief Scientific Advisor, Department for International Development, since 2015". Who's Who 2021. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2020.
doi:
10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U286527.