Ann Coker, PhD, MPH

Dr. Ann Coker is currently Executive Director of the University of Kentucky's Center for Research on Violence Against Women. She holds a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. Since 2007, Dr. Coker has served as Professor in UK College of Medicine's Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology. Much of her research and practice has been creating and evaluating bystander-based violence prevention programming to reduce sexual violence, child sex trafficking and maternal deaths and injuries due to violence.