Janet Fanslow
Awards	Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Auckland
Theses	Sex, tags and stereotypes: a study of listener evaluations of tag question usage in female and male speech (1990) Emergency department protocols of care for women abused by partners: development, implementation and evaluation (1995)
Academic work
Institutions	University of Auckland

Janet Lynn Fanslow MNZM is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Auckland, specialising in researching the prevention, prevalence and consequences of family violence.

Academic career

Fanslow has a Bachelors with Honours from Iowa State University and a Masters degree from the University of Otago. ^[1] She completed a PhD titled Emergency department protocols of care for women abused by partners: development, implementation and evaluation at the University of Auckland. ^[2] Fanslow undertook postdoctoral research in the Family and Intimate Violence Prevention Team of the USA Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ^[1] Fanslow then joined the faculty of the Social and Community Health section of the School of Population Health at the University of Auckland in 1991. She was appointed to full professor in 2024. ^[3]

Fanslow's research focuses on family violence, exploring its prevalence, its consequences, and how it can be prevented, and covering economic, physical and emotional abuse. ^{[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]} Fanslow's early work encouraged the recognition of family violence as a health issue. Her work has been funded by the Health Research Council of New Zealand, and she led the 2003 and 2019 New Zealand Violence Against Women Survey. ^[10] The survey involved surveying and interviewing almost 3000 women. ^[4] Fanslow is the Chief Advisor to the New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse, which collates information on family violence for practitioners. ^{[4] [11]}

Honours and awards

In the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours, Fanslow was appointed as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the research and prevention of family violence. ^[4]

Selected works

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• Janet L Fanslow; Elizabeth M Robinson (13 July 2009). "Help-seeking behaviors and reasons for help seeking reported by a representative sample of women victims of intimate partner violence in New Zealand". Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 25 (5): 929–951. doi: 10.1177/0886260509336963. ISSN  0886-2605. PMID  19597160. Wikidata  Q84217445.
• Janet Fanslow; Elizabeth Robinson (26 November 2004). "Violence against women in New Zealand: prevalence and health consequences". The New Zealand Medical Journal. 117 (1206): U1173. ISSN  0028-8446. PMID  15570342. Wikidata  Q51935199.
• Janet L Fanslow; Elizabeth M Robinson; Sue Crengle; Lana Perese (17 September 2007). "Prevalence of child sexual abuse reported by a cross-sectional sample of New Zealand women". Child Abuse & Neglect. 31 (9): 935–945. doi: 10.1016/J.CHIABU.2007.02.009. ISSN  0145-2134. PMID  17875321. Wikidata  Q39813790.
• Janet Fanslow; Elizabeth Robinson; Sue Crengle; Lana Perese (1 July 2010). "Juxtaposing beliefs and reality: prevalence rates of intimate partner violence and attitudes to violence and gender roles reported by New Zealand women". Violence Against Women. 16 (7): 812–831. doi: 10.1177/1077801210373710. ISSN  1077-8012. PMID  20558771. Wikidata  Q47381467.
• Fanslow JL; Norton RN; Spinola CG (1 September 1998). "Indicators of assault-related injuries among women presenting to the emergency department". Annals of Emergency Medicine. 32 (3 Pt 1): 341–348. doi: 10.1016/S0196-0644(98)70011-3. ISSN  0196-0644. PMID  9737497. Wikidata  Q44720174.
• Janet Fanslow; Martha Silva; Anna Whitehead; Elizabeth Robinson (1 August 2008). "Pregnancy outcomes and intimate partner violence in New Zealand". Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 48 (4): 391–397. doi: 10.1111/J.1479-828X.2008.00866.X. ISSN  0004-8666. PMID  18837845. Wikidata  Q45766480.
• Janet Fanslow; Anna Whitehead; Martha Silva; Elizabeth Robinson (1 February 2008). "Contraceptive use and associations with intimate partner violence among a population-based sample of New Zealand women". Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 48 (1): 83–89. doi: 10.1111/J.1479-828X.2007.00805.X. ISSN  0004-8666. PMID  18275577. Wikidata  Q39834589.

References

External links

• New Zealand Family Violence Council (NZFVC 10th Birthday - Assoc. Prof. Janet Fanslow, Co-Director, NZFVC, via YouTube